Google News Results Suck
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 Posted in Rants | No Comments »SPOILER ALERT: If you watch Celebrity Apprentice or 24 please look away! So in one night, on two separate occasions I decide to look up a cast member of each show I was watching. Each time with only about 8-10 minutes ...
Boot Acronis with USB on an EEE PC
Saturday, April 4th, 2009 Posted in Tips | No Comments »There are a few basic guides: powerex's guide where you format with an HP tool ziggywas' tip to format with PeToUSB (The following step to those 2 summaries is to just use the Acronis Rescue disk creator) There's only one small catch. Setting the ...
Extract Music from your iPod Easily
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Tips | No Comments »I used this little freeware app called iDump. Download using the "Executeable only" link. Take that file that you downloaded and put it on your iPod with Windows Explorer/My Computer. Open it up and it should show you your songs.
’03 Acura TL Xenon Headlights, Keyless Entry – DIY FOOL!
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 Posted in Cars, Tips | 1 Comment »I spent $150 for keyless entry when you can buy them online with instructions for only $35 USD. I was offered $200 to replace each Xenon HID headlight and passed. Lucky I did because I found a pair of Philips lights ...
Disable Auto playing the next podcast on iPod’s
Friday, January 9th, 2009 Posted in Tips | No Comments »The new iPod's play podcasts continuously, so if you decide to go to sleep with an hour-long podcast going and fall asleep, you'll wake up with a whole bunch more podcasts marked as played that you never actually listened to. The ...
My Telus Tech Support Story
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 Posted in Rants | No Comments »One day, many years ago I spent an entire day on the phone with numerous Telus tech support people. Our internet was down and we needed it up because we were hosting a couple websites and email servers that needed ...
Slow Windows Load Time
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 Posted in Technical Issues, Tricks | 1 Comment »I'm trying to solve a problem where my computer at work takes forever to become usable after logging onto windows. Edit: For lazy people, the end result was mapped drives were slowing boot time significantly. The following tweaks helped only with ...
Make icons in Photoshop (Free plugin)
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Customization, Tips | No Comments »Toby Thain has made a free plugin for Photoshop that lets you save graphics as .ico files. It's not over the top like some plugins, its just real basic save as, pick the sizes, etc. Download it here.
Updates to the Zack Same Music Blog (2008/10)
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Other | No Comments »I decided to work on making my music blog better tonight. New features: AJAX search bar (in the header) The ability to rate artists, with highest rated stats on the sidebar An archives page A "browse" page where you can browse artists alphabetically A tags page ...
Useful hMailServer Tips & Tricks
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in Technical Issues, Tricks | No Comments »Tricks Using TrendMicro Security Server Speedup downloading large attachments in Thunderbird Use hMailServer to share email across a home network Spam Installing ASSP with hMailServer Use ASSP with hMailServer Add ASSP multiple report buttons in Microsoft Outlook Dealing with Problems Very large mailbox crashes hmailserver