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10 Cool Telephone Tricks
I ran across this post a while ago and forgot to share it, it’s essentially 10 cool tips to use with the phone that you may not know. My favorites were: Using GOOG 411 for free information Calling 1-800-4PAYPAL to send money immediately using your PayPal account Use GrandCentral to centralize all your different phone numbers Using 7 or # [...]
Continue reading...Speeding up your WordPress Site: PHP Speedy and YSlow
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Grant Gochnauer just sent a link over to a sweet little PHP-site optimization piece of software called PHP Speedy from Acid Drop. The premise of the software is that once installed, you walk through a very nicely polished wizard-based setup telling PHP Speeding which things you want it to optimize: At the last stage of the wizard [...]
Continue reading...$1 Image Stabilizer for Any Camera
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Saw this over on Metacafe, it’s a very cool trick using: A 1/4″ bolt that will screw into the bottom of your camera About 6′ or so (depending on your height) of nylon string or another relatively stiff string A large washer You basically screw the bolt into the bottom of your camera, tie the string between the bolt [...]
Continue reading...Windows Install Recovery Tips (Not a Reinstall)
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Following up with our previous tip about keeping windows from “rotting”, Grant Gochnauer sends in another great tip from the ShippingSeven blog for recovering a really fuck-up Windows install without reinstalling. There are actually two tips, and they are: Try logging off, then back on instead of rebooting. Try backing up your data and then erasing [...]
Continue reading...10 Lesser Known PS3 Tricks
Monday, November 26, 2007
Digital Home put together a list of 10 tricks to do with the PS3 that “Sony doesn’t tell you about”, while some of them weren’t that interesting or ground-breaking, there was 1 in particular I had no idea you could do: 4) Download game saves Chances are someone out there has already beaten that boss for you [...]
Continue reading...Gmail Tip: Finding Unread Emails
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
For the life of me I cannot figure out why Google doesn’t just add a stupid button to Gmail for this, but anyway… The tip here is how to find all your unread emails in Gmail. Let’s say you aren’t interested in the label on the mail, who it’s from or anything… you just want a [...]
Continue reading...Upcoming iPhone Update Bricks Hacked Phones
Monday, September 24, 2007
Grant Gochnauer sends in the news that if you hacked your iPhone to work on another network, or just because you are hardcore, keep in mind that the next software update from Apple will likely brick the phone (read: “kill it”). Apple’s reason? They are saving baby seals and fighting terrorism with locked iPhones, or this: “Apple [...]
Continue reading...Getting your iPhone Credit
Friday, September 14, 2007
Matt Young just sent this in… you can now request your $100 in-store credit from Apple (because of the $200 price drop of the iPhone 2 months after it came out, and a lot of pissed off people). Click here to start the process of identifying your iPhone and requesting your credit.
Continue reading...Removing iTunes DRM
Friday, September 7, 2007
You curious how to rip Apple’s iTunes DRM out of the music you’ve bought and have limited rights to? Click on over and get some ideas. Summary: Got a Mac? FairGame Got a PC? QTFairUse6
Continue reading...How Important is Fast Memory?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
You have heard this 1000 times: I am building a new gaming rig and want it to run crazy fast. Should I pay 2x the price for the super-fast gaming memory? The short answer is no. Take a look at some of the results of benchmarking the latest cutting edge DDR3-1800 memory from OCZ here. If you [...]
Continue reading...7 Ways to the “Action Habit”
Thursday, August 23, 2007
The “Action Habit” or the habit of putting your thoughts or plans into action. One of the hardest habits to develop and one of the biggest properties lacking from people today. Most of us avoid action out of fear. Here are 7 ways to grow the habit and help it to grow (Hit the link for [...]
Continue reading...Don’t Buy an iPod Right Now
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Looks like Apple is slowing down iPod shipments to retailers, suggesting that they are trying to sell out the current stock before a new product rolls out.
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Monday, February 11, 2008
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