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How to Fix the Xbox 360 “MTU Too Low” Problem with the Qwest Actiontec Q1000 DSL Modem
NOTE: If you are coming to this article after Googling the subject in frustration, here’s the quick-fix for you: Upgrade the modem’s firmware to QAQ01-31.00L.33 or later and you should be fine. Qwest has been rolling their new high-speed fiber-optic DSL service out throughout Denver and Arizona for the last year or so (it’s not fiber-to-the-house, [...]
Continue reading...Video and Pictures from Microsoft Store Grand Opening in Scottsdale
Oct 22, 2009 
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Many thanks to Chris Hunkele for the pics and video’s from the grand opening! If you live in Phoenix or Scottsdale you like saw the news that Microsoft has opened it’s first (new) Microsoft Store in the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall and from the looks of things, it was a huge hit. With a few hundred [...]
Continue reading...Canon 5D Mark II Firmware Update Coming
Oct 20, 2009 
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Thanks to Grant Gochnauer for the heads up on the news that Canon is working on a firmware upgrade for the 5D Mark II folks that will allow 1080p video recording at 24 and 25fps. London, 20 October 2009 – Canon today announces that it is currently developing a firmware update to the EOS 5D Mark [...]
Continue reading...Canon 1D Mark IV 1080p Video – Vincent Laforet’s Nocturne
Oct 20, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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SmugMug’s Don MacAskill blogged about Vincent Laforet’s new ‘Nocturne’ short that was shot in 1080p at ISO 6400 on the new Canon 1D Mark IV — for those of you with your 5D Mark II’s, apparently the 1D MIV has better low-light performance, but the body runs a solid $5k — so probably just buy [...]
Continue reading...How To Put Google Ion into Recovery Mode
Oct 8, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Introduction This document will cover both how to get your Google Ion into Recovery Mode as well as a few other clarifications to HTC’s Google Ion device instructions for installing Android 1.6 that caused me pain during this process. If you are like me and have an Android device, more specifically the Google Ion Android developer device from [...]
Continue reading...How to Remove reycross.com WordPress Malware
Sep 15, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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It seems that a new WordPress malware hijack is making the rounds and we got hit. Google just issued me a “this site contains malware” warning for my sites, after some quick investigation it looks like the hijack has attached a malicious <iframe> block to the end of every HTML and PHP page in the [...]
Continue reading...Google Traffic on Surface Streets Not Perfect
Aug 25, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Late for work? Just zoom-in! As Chris Hunkele points out, Google has launched traffic information for surface streets (no longer just interstates), but it’s not perfect just yet. Chris tells us: … it’s a little buggy, look at the east west curvy street (greenway), when zoomed in the traffic is fine, when zoomed out it’s red, you [...]
Continue reading...PS3 May Win… Years From Now with 3D and Motion Control
Aug 19, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Back when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were first announced, we aren’t ashamed to say that we were avid fans of the PS3 platform… much more so than the self-aborting Xbox 360. It was a much higher build quality, the technical achievement of the Cell Processor was ridiculously complex and therefore impressive, it played Blu-ray [...]
Continue reading...CryEngine 3 PS3 Tech Demo
Aug 19, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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This is more of an aside, but Crytek’s Cevat Yerli shows off a demonstration of the upcoming (September ‘09 release) CryEngine 3 and I’m floored. The enhancements that Crytek have gotten into CryEngine 3 are nothing short of amazing, specifically on the PS3. Cevat explains that over the years they have had two R&D engine teams [...]
Continue reading...Custom Diesel-Electric Honda Insight – 100mpg
Aug 18, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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Red Light Racing (site currently down) has a story about two mechanics in Maryland that did a custom modification to a standard Honda Insight hybrid gasoline-electric car by replacing the gasoline motor with a diesel motor. Out of the box the default Honda Insight is rated at 40mpg city, 43mpg highway. During an 1,800-mile road trip [...]
Continue reading...Take Google Search 2.0 for a Spin
Aug 11, 2009 (Click to Rate!)
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In an attempt to compete with the oncoming shit-house that is Microsoft’s Bing, Facebook’s real-time Search and everyone else generally wanting a piece of the Google pie, Google has pulled version 2 of Google Search out of the garage for some beta test runs while they tighten the screws over the coming months. You can give [...]
Continue reading...HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues
Jul 23, 2009 
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Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that form [...]
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Oct 28, 2009
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