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Western Digital RMA process – extremely disappointed
Thursday, 22 Sep, 2011 – 9:32 | No Comment

I recently had a client who’s hard drive failed.  I replaced their hard drive roughly a year ago.  I replaced it with this hard drive: Western Digital Scorpio Black 320 GB Sata 3.0 Gb-s 16 …

How to tell what Netgear WNDR3700 you are buying
Monday, 28 Feb, 2011 – 14:03 | No Comment

Over at the official Netgear forum someone created a thread with pictures indicating how to tell if you’re buying a version 1 or version 2 of the Netgear WNDR3700 wireless router.  I’m planning on buying …

Verizon Wireless 4G LTE coming to Hawaii in 2011
Friday, 7 Jan, 2011 – 22:38 | No Comment

According to this article here, Verizon’s ever-so-speedy 4G LTE service is coming to Hawaii this year!
On top of that, it looks like Verizon is going to be announcing the CDMA version of the iPhone 4 …

Making the transition from technician to systems administrator is not what it appears to be
Friday, 11 Jun, 2010 – 5:55 | No Comment

I thought I would happily move up the ladder and move from a technician to a sys admin or a network admin.  I finally have the opportunity to earn a great amount of experience as …

My iPad complaints
Monday, 24 May, 2010 – 7:59 | No Comment

iBooks Categories are bjorked
There are more sub-categories that cannot be accessed.
Technical books are lacking
Technical books are severely lacking.  If you want to learn CSS for instance, there is slim to none right now.  I am …

Internet Explorer 8 does not show CYMK formatted jpgs
Monday, 26 Apr, 2010 – 15:10 | One Comment

Very interesting.  I am making a birthday invitation for my son’s first birthday party and I uploaded a jpg to my server and sure enough when I tried to view it I got the red …

Setting up GMail push with your Apple iPhone
Tuesday, 20 Apr, 2010 – 8:00 | No Comment

If you have an iPhone and a GMail account and you are not using the iPhones push feature, you are missing out.  Instead of fetching email every single time you open up the Mail app, …

Having problems deleting old tags in Google Reader: Fixed and explained
Monday, 19 Apr, 2010 – 8:56 | No Comment

Explanation of why you could not delete your old Google Reader tags/folders

Mihai P. has posted an answer to the question "some of my tags cannot be removed":
There were two problems:
We used to maintain …

Restart your computer batch file
Thursday, 15 Apr, 2010 – 8:00 | No Comment

I have longed for this batch file and had no idea you could do this.  It’s amazing how powerful Windows really is.
This is a restart automatically batch file which will restart your computer after being …

Third party anti-spam solutions
Wednesday, 14 Apr, 2010 – 8:00 | No Comment

I was browsing PCMAG.com’s Norton 2010 review and noticed they linked three different stand alone anti-spam programs.  Here are the reviews:

Cloudmark Desktop 5.3.3 for Microsoft
iHateSpam 5.0
SPAMfighter Standard

Have a look!