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How Many RRoD’s Have You Had? 2008-04-07 13:37:52 I guess I shouldn’t have gotten so excited about fragging some n00bs and posting my xbox live gamertag just yet. I’m not saying don’t add me. Add away! Just know that my Xbox 360 is in Mesquite, TX, so it might be a few days before I’m back online. You [...]
Come Play Xbox with Me 2008-04-07 12:37:56 I have recently been trying to really get involved with as many communities as I can in order to gain more readers and subscribers. One of the ways that I have done this was to post my XBL gamertag information (as seen below and on the sidebar). Feel free to add me, and [...] Read more:Xbox
Video Games are for Dummies 2008-03-31 19:55:16 I recently read an article at Tom’s Hardware that went into how video games must be dumbed down in order to have a mass appeal. The article was written about a lecture the creative director of BioShock had given. In this lecture, he talked about how BioShock was originally supposed to take [...] Read more:Games
, Dummies
, Video Games
ITOG Makes Your Opinion Everything 2008-02-22 12:10:49 I am not one to get too excited about social networking sites, but ITOG comes at social networking from a different angle. They are a self-proclaimed social opinion site. You may ask yourself, “What is a social opinion site?” Well, if you look at their tag line, a social opinion site [...] Read more:Everything
Want to Make Windows Faster? 2008-02-04 23:46:52 Everyone knows that over time your computer is going to slow down. This could be due to lots of factors: viruses, spy-ware, ad-ware, or maybe it’s Windows
’ fault. There are several programs to deal with the other problems, so here is a list of ten things that will make your Windows computer [...]
How To Share a Folder Over a Network 2008-01-29 14:43:02 Have you ever wanted to access a folder on another computer on your network? I’m sure that most of you have, and today, I’m going to show you how to easily share a folder over your home network.
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Upgrade Your Router 2008-01-17 12:39:33 Have you been wanting to get that new router, but you are a little strapped for cash? Well, the solution is to use Tomato to turn your regular old router into the powerhouse you always wanted. Tomato has the capability to boost your Wi-Fi signal, track your bandwidth, set quality of service rules, [...] Read more:Router
We’re Back!!! 2008-01-17 12:12:42 After a brief hiatus, we have come back to provide you with all the tech information your heart desires! Hope everyone had a good New Year!
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Mozilla Lightning and Sunbird Get an Update 2007-10-28 00:19:09 Not too long ago, I made the switch to Thunderbird from Outlook. Overall, I was very happy with my decision to switch, but I was a little disappointed with the calendar plug-in, Lightning. The new update to Lightning makes scheduling meetings much, much easier. There are some other changes, but this [...] Read more:Mozilla
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Guide to Opening Ports for uTorrent and Azureus 2007-10-24 18:13:59 This guide will help you turn this pesky yellow triangle into a nice green circle in uTorrent
through port forwarding. Making that icon green will get you better download speeds, and thus, more happiness.
You may have noticed that I haven’t mentioned Azureus
. Well, I just put that in the title, because I promised a [...] Read more:Guide
May 1st RSS Awareness Day 2008-04-09 11:42:54
Today, I was checking my RSS feeds and to my surprise there is an RSS Awareness
Day. Personally, I think it’s great. I didn’t discover RSS until last summer, and I don’t know what I’d do without it now. I am able to access more information faster with RSS feeds. [...]
Make Your Own Ringtones 2008-04-10 15:53:02 ToneShop is an easy software that allows you to make your own ringtones from your favorite MP3s. I don’t know if you guys have ever tried to make your own ringtones, but it can be a huge pain that makes you almost want to pay that $3.99 for your favorite Justin Timberlake MegaDeath [...] Read more:Ringtones
How to Show Hidden Folders in Windows XP 2008-04-14 12:33:56 This quick tutorial is for all you control freaks out there that want to know exactly where every file and folder is and be able to do whatever you want to it.
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Weekly Starred Items: April 20, 2008 2008-04-20 23:31:18 Every week I star numerous items in my Google Reader (which you should use if you don’t), so I can use them for posts here or just to explore myself. However, I find that I never have enough time to fully explore the links in order to give you guys proper feedback. In [...] Read more:Weekly
, Items
, April
Geek Rock Superstar Jonathan Coulton 2008-04-23 14:41:13 Yesterday, I was using StumbleUpon to just waste a little time, and I came across something that I thought was extremely funny. It is a video for the song Code Monkey by Jonathan
Coulton. Jonathan Coulton has been called the “Godfather of Geek
Rock,” and I believe the title is deserving. Without [...] Read more:Superstar
A Few Green Links for Earth Day 2008-04-22 14:34:06 In celebration of Earth
Day 2008, I wanted to just post a couple of links from my reader for you guys. Let me know about any other great Earth Day
articles.
Easy Ways to Go Green
with Your Computer
15 of the Best Green Search Engines
I also was forwarded an email with a few great gadget [...]
How to Clear Your Desktop 2008-04-22 13:24:36 I know I used to be one of those people that had a desktop that looks very similar to this picture, but I’ve found that I am much happier having the entire desktop clear of distractions. I did recently stumble across that many people actually believe that cluttered desktops can become art. [...] Read more:Clear
, Desktop
ShareThis Makes Sharing Easy 2008-04-25 13:54:06 Recently, I changed my bookmarking and sharing options at the bottom of each post to use the ShareThis plugin. I did this, because I wanted to give my posts a cleaner look. In order to be clean, you must remove the clutter of a bunch of bookmarking links.
[...] Read more:Sharing
Weekly Links: April 27, 2008 2008-04-27 16:26:49 This week I have lots of great links for you guys to check out. Due to the vast amount this week, I’m going to categorize them to help you navigate them more efficiently, so check them out after the break.
Related [...] Read more:Weekly
, April
How to Overclock Your Graphics Card 2008-04-29 20:17:55 The guys over at Tom’s Hardware continue to impress me. A few days ago they released a comprehensive guide on how to overclock your graphics card. I have always been a little hesitant about overclocking any of the parts in my PC, but Tom’s Hardware has always been a great source for [...] Read more:Graphics
What is Today? RSS Awareness Day of Course! 2008-05-01 12:42:59 May 1st is the day we get together and teach the world about RSS. If you are new to RSS, the first place you should go to is RSSDay to get you a really quick explanation. A week or so ago I posted about RSS Awareness
Day, so I’m not going to keep [...] Read more:Today
Excel Keyboard Shortcut Tip: How to Quickly Highlight Large Tables 2008-04-30 16:20:25 Excel is a great tool for working with tables and large amounts of data, but sometimes that amount of data gets extremely large and becomes more and more difficult to manipulate. Today, in my first video tutorial (don’t laugh), I’m going to show you a couple of Excel keyboard shortcuts that will help with [...] Read more:Excel
, Highlight
, Tables
What is Today? RSS Awareness Day of Course! 2008-05-01 12:42:59 May 1st is the day we get together and teach the world about RSS. If you are new to RSS, the first place you should go to is RSSDay to get you a really quick explanation. A week or so ago I posted about RSS Awareness
Day, so I’m not going to keep [...] Read more:Today
Excel Keyboard Shortcut Tip: How to Quickly Highlight Large Tables 2008-04-30 16:20:25 Excel is a great tool for working with tables and large amounts of data, but sometimes that amount of data gets extremely large and becomes more and more difficult to manipulate. Today, in my first video tutorial (don’t laugh), I’m going to show you a couple of Excel keyboard shortcuts that will help with [...] Read more:Excel
, Highlight
, Tables
How to Overclock Your Graphics Card 2008-04-29 20:17:55 The guys over at Tom’s Hardware continue to impress me. A few days ago they released a comprehensive guide on how to overclock your graphics card. I have always been a little hesitant about overclocking any of the parts in my PC, but Tom’s Hardware has always been a great source for [...] Read more:Graphics
Weekly Links: April 27, 2008 2008-04-27 16:26:49 This week I have lots of great links for you guys to check out. Due to the vast amount this week, I’m going to categorize them to help you navigate them more efficiently, so check them out after the break.
Blogging
RevResponse Pays You On Free Magazine Subscriptions
This looks to be a great new widget to [...] Read more:Weekly
, April
ShareThis Makes Sharing Easy 2008-04-25 13:54:06 Recently, I changed my bookmarking and sharing options at the bottom of each post to use the ShareThis plugin. I did this, because I wanted to give my posts a cleaner look. In order to be clean, you must remove the clutter of a bunch of bookmarking links.
I had seen the ShareThis button [...] Read more:Sharing
Geek Rock Superstar Jonathan Coulton 2008-04-23 14:41:13 Yesterday, I was using StumbleUpon to just waste a little time, and I came across something that I thought was extremely funny. It is a video for the song Code Monkey by Jonathan
Coulton. Jonathan Coulton has been called the “Godfather of Geek
Rock,” and I believe the title is deserving. Without [...] Read more:Superstar
A Few Green Links for Earth Day 2008-04-22 14:34:06 In celebration of Earth
Day 2008, I wanted to just post a couple of links from my reader for you guys. Let me know about any other great Earth Day
articles.
Easy Ways to Go Green
with Your Computer
15 of the Best Green Search Engines
I also was forwarded an email with a few great gadget [...]
How to Clear Your Desktop 2008-04-22 13:24:36 I know I used to be one of those people that had a desktop that looks very similar to this picture, but I’ve found that I am much happier having the entire desktop clear of distractions. I did recently stumble across that many people actually believe that cluttered desktops can become art. [...] Read more:Clear
, Desktop
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