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How to Remove reycross.com WordPress Malware
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...Gears of War 2 Queen Level Glitch
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Chris Hunkele just sent in a picture of his screen after he found a glitch on the Queen level at the end of Gears of War 2; apparently you can dive off one of the lifts at a certain point out into mid-air, and walk your way around the level without the enemy AI reacting [...]
Continue reading...Mercenaries 2 Mini Review, Definite Rental (Skip Buying It)
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
We love hate to say it, but we were right: Mercenaries 2 is a rental (not even a “must rent” at that), not a game for buying. While this isn’t an official review of it, we will hit the highlights for anyone interested right now: The Bad The overall fidelity (graphical, audio, etc.) of the game is about [...]
Continue reading...How to get More Ink Out of ‘Empty’ Printer Catridges
Monday, August 25, 2008
We wrote about the Class Action lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard over printer-ink monopoly pricing and false “empty catridge” warnings that force customers to guy buy more ink long before the cartridge is really empty. What made today important was a story over on Yahoo about a guy named Farhad Manjoo that was not going to take [...]
Continue reading...Are You a Chronic Almost-Achiever or a 95% Kind of Person?
Friday, July 18, 2008
Introduction The purpose of this post is to take a look at a phenomenon I saw in my life and I think some of you might see in yours: chronic almost-achievement. The ability to give every task 95%, but avoid giving anything 100% like the plague for fear of failure and self-disappointment. Outline What’s a 95%-er? Why is 95% Bad? Why [...]
Continue reading...Securely Formatting / Erasing an iPhone
Thursday, May 22, 2008
With the news getting around that pre-owned iPhones are actually shipping with previous-owner personal information on them, cops recovering data off of iPhones and word that AT&T is ramping up their pre-owned iPhone plan, learning how to correctly wipe your iPhone so all traces of personal information are gone is important. Luckily Securosis put together a [...]
Continue reading...How to REALLY Repair Your Xbox 360
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
This is an excellent tip, and having gone through the Microsoft Xbox support channel twice (Xbox support disaster #1, Xbox terrible support #2 and a friend) and wanting to die before I do it again, a very applicable point (oh yea, and also cause their hardware has a 30% failure rate). 1. Call 1-800-4-MY-XBOX 2. Demand your [...]
Continue reading...Circuit City *Secret* HD-DVD Trade-In Plan
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Let’s face it… you jumped the gun and got an HD-DVD player and now you hate your life. If you got that player from Circuit City within the last 3 months however, they are quietly offering a trade-in program to re-apply the full purchase price to that of a Blu-ray player. Not too shabby… thanks Engadget!
Continue reading...Finding a Comprehensive List of New & Future Video Games
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
NOTE: This article may invoke feelings of “No Shit Sherlock” in some of you, I’d encourage you to post those feelings as comments… maybe even a “You are a FAG!” would help… those are always appreciated and helpful to everyone reading. This tip is a little obscure, but it’s one that has driven me crazy for [...]
Continue reading...Watch Higher Quality YouTube Videos
Monday, March 3, 2008
It seems that YouTube is slowly rolling out support for higher quality videos. All you need to do is append the argument &fmt=6 to the URL to enable the high quality video. Here’s an example: Low Quality Click here for High Quality NOTE: Not all the videos have been converted yet… there are like a billion of them, so [...]
Continue reading...Review: SpinRite 6.0
Sunday, February 24, 2008
A friend this week had her laptop give her the dreaded blue screen every time she booted. After a trip to the Theif Geek Squad who told her if would be $1500+ to recover the data from the drive, I gave SpinRite a try first. I booted to the disk and ran a [...]
Continue reading...Solution: iPhone Randomly Vibrates or Beeps
Monday, February 18, 2008
So I just got an 16GB iPhone (generous courtesy of SmugMug) and besides it basically being dead-sexy and giving me “Oh… goddamn that’s nice” moments about once an hour when it comes to UI polish, I did notice it randomly vibrated or beeped for about 1/2 of a second randomly throughout the day. I hit up [...]
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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