Adventures in stupid technology
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Fix problems on your Experian credit report
Having been a victim of identity theft has taught me to check my credit report three times a year to make sure I’m not being ripped off. The passage of the Fair Credit Reporting Act has made this practice much more cost effective the past few years. Now I can simply go to AnnualCreditReport.com three…
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Stop LCD from making humming noise
Last month I finally made enough consulting money to afford myself a 24″ LCD monitor for my desk. Up until then I had been using my notebooks display for coding which was less than perfect. On my notebook I couldn’t see more than forty lines of code at a time and found myself scrolling incessantly.…
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Change the screen resolution for Telltale games
Telltale Games is the creator of the remastered and new Tales of Monkey Island game among others. The PC version of the game is simple and works well enough, but it does have a flaw in the design of the graphics settings. In the games graphics control panel you can choose from a fixed number…
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Migrate Exchange users to Google Apps Premier
Many IT/IS administrators for smaller organizations feel that an Exchange environment is still the most cost effective method to meet a firms collaboration needs. The argument for Exchange is often based on very reasonable prices of server hardware bundled with discounted licenses of Microsoft Exchange or SBS. The trouble is that this line or reasoning…
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Migrating your blog to a new domain
Lets say, hypothetically speaking, that you’ve got this domain (geneomatic.com). Furthermore, lets say that you were doing some SEO experiments with a blog using said domain…you know, just for fun. In this particular blog, lets say you wanted to make your own name synonymous with the domain name just to test your Google SEO skills.…
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Stop the iPhone from muting calls with your ear
If you have an iPhone 3G you may have found yourself in the awkward situation where after a while of rambling on, you suddenly hear the person at the other end say “hello? Are you there? hello…”. It’s so annoying! Not to mention embarrassing…now you’ve got to say all that stuff again (making you look…
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Windows 7 Ultimate RC1 Upgrade FAIL
If you’re playing with the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) and want to upgrade to the final release of Windows 7, get prepared to shell out some bucks for Windows 7 Ultimate. My school has posted a free copy of Windows 7 Professional for students through MSDNAA, but apparently there is no upgrade path from…
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Install a shared printer in Vista/7 x64
My main printer (Canon i560 Ink jet) is connected to an old Gateway notebook running XP in my living room. The notebook is connected to my wifi network and the printer is shared, but I cannot connect to it from Windows VISTA/7 x64. Whenever I attempt to connect the printer from these operating systems Windows…
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Sync your iPhone with Google Apps Premier
Google Apps Premier (GAP) is a service from Google that allows you to get all the benefits of Gmail with your own domain’s email. Great spam filter, the Gmail interface and now Google Sync for your iPhone or iPod. So if you have a GAP account and an iPhone you can now sync your GAP…
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Sync Google contacts from iPhone
One of Apple’s most overpriced products is their MobileMe service for contact, calendar and email synchronization of your iPod or iPhone. $99 bucks per year for synchronization and some web space? What a rip! Thankfully Google has decided to offer a way to sync your Google contacts, calendar and Gmail with your iPhone without using…