Adventures in stupid technology
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Map Apple Keyboard Fn keys in Windows 7
I love the new aluminum Apple keyboard, but am too cheap to buy the iMac it usually comes with. I figured if I just picked a used one up on eBay and hooked it up to my Sony VAIO running Windows 7 x64 what’s the worst that could happen? It worked surprisingly well, that’s what…
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GMailify your Yahoo! mail
A while ago I wrote an article on how to “gmailify” your Hotmail. In this article I’ll will show you how to “gmailify” your Yahoo! mail. Not clear on what “gmailify” even means? Well, to [jee-meyl -ih-fahy] (I totally made it up) means to apply all functionality of the Gmail interface to something other than…
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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…