By Mike on Mar 27, 2008 in Hacks/Mods, How to, Internet | 4 Comments
If you don’t know what Grease Monkey is, it is a Firefox plugin that allows you to run your own java script on any page you are viewing. Now why would you want to do that? Well, basically it allows you to fix or enhance any web page out there to meet your requirements and [...]
By Chris on Mar 26, 2008 in How to, Software, Windows | 0 Comments
How much do you love the tabs in the Firefox web browser? If I could have tabs on everything, including life, I would. Seeing that it makes life so much easier, I often wondered why Microsoft didn’t incorporate tabs into their operating systems. Well, now I don’t care cause I found a [...]
By Mike on Mar 22, 2008 in Featured, Hacks/Mods, Hardware, How to, Linux | 6 Comments
Every week I hear the following questions:
I just ordered a broadband connection. What do I need to share it among my computers?
What do I need to use the wireless card in my laptop at home?
I keep having to reboot my router to get my internet connection to work. What can I do to improve it?
The [...]
By Mike on Mar 17, 2008 in Featured, How to, Linux, OSX, Software | 23 Comments
I never thought I would actually pay for radio until a co-worker of mine signed up for Sirius satellite radio when Howard Stern made the switch to Sirius. Now, Howard Stern I could care less about but, this gave me my first extended exposer to the music channels. Every afternoon, for weeks, I would [...]
By Chris on Mar 17, 2008 in How to, Windows | 5 Comments
Recently, a friend of mine contacted me about a friend of hers, whose sister died tragically and the friend needed to access her sisters computer. Fortunately and Unfortunately, her sister kept her windows password in her head. Now her head is gone and we needed to get the password. (I’m think I’m [...]
By Mike on Mar 15, 2008 in Featured, How to, OSX, Software | 26 Comments
Disclaimer:
A lot of the people asking me how to install Wordpress on OSX have new babies. I’d like to apologize up front to the rest of the internet for bringing more new baby sites to the internet and thus hindering the speed at which we all can download music. Sorry.
How to [...]
By Mike on Mar 13, 2008 in How to, Windows | 1 Comment
Someone here at the office just asked me how to kill a process in XP at the command line. Presumably they wanted to kill a process in a batch file. Seeing I had to look it up myself, I thought it might be useful to you too.
If you know the name of a [...]
By Chris on Mar 12, 2008 in How to, Windows | 0 Comments
Windows XP automatic logon is mainly for people who know what a network infrastructure is, however you rocket scientists out there can use this one at home also.
Actually, home owners of Windows XP will want to use an easier method. This is specifically for a PC that is not joined to a Domain. [...]
By Chris on Mar 11, 2008 in Hacks/Mods, How to, Software, Windows | 0 Comments
I needed to install WinVNC on my enemy friend’s computer so I could keep tabs on his daily atrocities, (ooh, that’s my big word for the day) but of course I didn’t want him to know about it. WinVNC now compiles their program with the icon in the system tray and no way to remove [...]
By Chris on Mar 10, 2008 in How to, Video Games/Systems | 1 Comment
I was recently playing Elite Beat Agents on my Nintendo D S and I couldn’t seem to hit the circles for the notes and was losing quite badly. After getting a little to frustrated and putting my stylus through my glass table (oops) I realized that the screen seemed to be off from where [...]