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 ...
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.
Make your WordPress site faster (easily)
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 Posted in Programming, Tips | No Comments »What: There's a feature called "gzip" that's installed by default on most web servers. Modifying your site to make use of it can really speed up the performance. How much faster? Try the quick and easy mod_gzip tester by WhatsMyIP.org. Just enter the URL ...
Getting “As low as” on Magento unexpectedly?
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Tips | 1 Comment »It's just a caching issue. All you have to do is go to System -> Cache Management and then click the refresh button next to "Layered Navigation Indices".
Speed up Magento by ~235%
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Posted in Tips, Tricks | 29 Comments »What: There's a feature called "gzip" that's installed by default on most web servers. Modifying your site to make use of it can really speed up the performance. How much faster? Try the quick and easy mod_gzip tester by WhatsMyIP.org. Just enter the URL ...
Google Web Browser “Chrome” Released
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »Google's new web browser "Chrome" was released today. So far I really like it. It's extremely fast, looks nice and has all the features you would need. It also imports from Firefox perfectly, not just bookmarks either. It does saved ...
Guide to Setting Up a VPN in Windows
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »I used Bob Cerelli's Guide.