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Entries for August, 2008

Operate Your Computer with Wii Controllers…

Nintendo doesn’t exactly advertise it, but the remotes for the Wii gaming console—including the balance board that comes with Wii Fit—have Bluetooth capabilities. That means you can connect your Wii peripherals to your computer to operate the media center hooked up to your TV, play emulated games with a Nunchuk, Classic Controller, or even a [...]

20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life.

A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done–or having a tech meltdown.

Fixed and improved…

I have fixed the site navigation at the top of the page and added a Members Only section. No big mystery there, just wanted a less then Bot friendly section of pages. Also added my logo to the site header… Now the site is starting to look good.

Comcast to Place a Cap on Internet Downloads

Should you really care about the Comcast Cap??? Read on my friends…
Beginning Oct. 1, Comcast will put a 250 gigabyte-a-month cap on residential users. The limit will not affect most users, at least not in the short-term, but is certain to create tension as some technologies gain traction.

Antivirus 2009 – Warning and Removal info.

Antivirus 2009 or Antivirus2009, is a rogue antispyware application that created to ruin the integrity of our computing experience. Antivirus 2009 is fake and malicious, with the intent of screwing up your computers. Antivirus 2009 is a clone of the infamous Antivirus 2008.

Don’t use your service providers DNS…

Here is one more reason NOT to use your internet service providers DNS. The reason I learned about this was because MY service provided was blocking some websites by removing them from their DNS. So when I typed in the site address all I got was a Host provided DNS error page can not be [...]

Need for Speed… Speed Reading…

Would you like to read faster? No I mean really super fast. The idea is that it feeds you one word at a time super fast and your brain takes it in and processes the results better then seeing words in a row and your brain tries to make a structure…
Give http://www.spreeder.com/ a try. Have [...]

Need cheaper gas?

Many Americans have taken up a new hobby — hunting for the gas station with the lowest prices. But the hunt has gotten exponentially harder as the price of oil has skyrocketed and the posted price may not even be advertised, especially if the consumer wants to pay with a credit card.

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After speed boost, Firefox a developer default?

Firefox is already plenty fast. In one test, it comes in just behind Safari in speed, but in this case, “slightly slower” still means “blazingly fast.”
Thanks to Mozilla’s pioneering work with TraceMonkey, however, Firefox is about to become even faster. Think massive performance boost.