Welcome, dear readers, to the final piece in our long-running "Web Served" series. Starting last November, Ars has been helping to shed light on the fun world of DIY Web hosting—we started with ...

Inspired by a project featured here on Hack-a-Day, [arthurb] bought himself a PIC 24F and started experimenting once he learned the ins and outs of programming the chip. Using a breadboard and a nest ...

If you've ever left the house and realized you left the TV, Xbox, or anything else turned on, this little DIY web clicker will allow you to turn if off remotely, with your web-enabled smartphone.

I've always been a big proponent of using NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices for dedicated file and media storage and backup. They are a low-power, low-cost alternative to a dedicated PC server, ...

In the pantheon of geek projects there are few things as potent as the creation of an FTP server. Rather than doing cool stuff like serving up web pages or handling phone calls, an FTP server just ...

Jack Wallen explains why you'd want to enable the Common Gateway Interface on an Apache server and then shows how to do it. It’s time to go a little old-school and lay out how to enable the Common ...

In my last post, I took a look at the recent proliferation of Web widgets, which are modular content and services that are making it easier for anyone to help themselves to the vast pool of high value ...