With lion coming out tomorrow, July 20th 2011, a lot of people are asking if they should upgrade and if their Mac is indeed able to be upgraded to OS X Lion. Well you’ll need to: Be running Snow Leopard (SL)- if you’re on Leopard or Tigger or Panther then you have to upgrade to […]
Summary: this article is a tutorial on how to upgrade your cable modem as well as my experience upgrading my Comcast (Colorado) cable modem to a Motorola SB6120 and then a Zoom 5341. My experience (low upload speed) may be related to my location on Comcast’s network so other Comcast users outside the Denver / […]
Just finished Installing Windows 7 Enterprise on an older Lenovo Thinkpad T400, I was impressed how clean of an install I ended up with. No cluttered desktop with a mass icons that hide trial based crappy software., God this is the way to go but alas 99% of us plebs will never end up with […]
Facebook is mostly a gigantic waste of time BUT now you can forget about Facebook for good, never have to visit it again but happily post on your Drupal website and get Facebook to automatically post your prose into the Facebook void. Hmmm, perhaps I’ve found a way to like Facebook again but this is […]
The following is a somewhat clunky workaround for ATT cellphone subscribers with LOCKED iPhones to block specific telephone numbers. This was a simple solution to my battle against a particular nasty Telemarketing / Travel Company called E Tour and Travel. You too may have a number you’d like to block; a disgruntled ex, a bailiff […]
The Epson Perfection 636U scanner was a speedy beast in its day and I’m talking many moons ago. New scanner don’t scan much faster so why throw a perfectly good scanner out just cos Epson say they don’t support it anymore! We’ll you can get this beast going again, you have two options a pay and free option.
[UPDATE Dec 2010 – Karma comes a knocking & Mr Vitaly Borke is finally arrested:
Article in MoneyWatch on Vitaly Borke Arrest
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Finally after years of lawsuits and legal wrangling Apple Computer Inc and the company that owns the rights to The Beatles music, Apple Corps have come to an agreement to bring the entire Beatles music library to the iTunes music store. Sure they were available on other online places like Amazon but iTunes has 90% […]
Ok just a small rant because Toktumi Support don’t seem to accept my number. With competition such as Whistle Phone (FREE) and Google Voice (not iphone call out enabled but FREE SMSs) how the hell can a product NOT offer push notification. Why can a little operation like Whistle phone offer this and not Toktumi? […]