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Here at my mom’s place she has an old DirecTV hughes digital satelite converter. Well, I just recently set her up with a 50″ plasma tv and so her remote no longer worked for changing the volume or turning the tv on and off. I found some overly complex instructions but the meat and potatoes [...]
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Using laptop as a wifi hotspot
The place I’m staying at has little to no cell phone signal at times (Sprint). Which is usually not a problem because I can just use GrooveIP to route my google voice calls over wifi. The problem I’m dealing with now is that the router is on one side of the house and I’m on [...]
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Tags: wifi, hotspot, connectify, bsod
Here are a few words I left as a review to a Lenovo L512 laptop I recently purchased on Woot.com. http://www.woot.com/Forums/viewpost.aspx?PostID=4952859&PageIndex=6&ReplyCount=215#post4979266 I bought this as a replacement to a T series 420 and the build quality is lacking to me. WHAT I DON’T LIKE:: 1. Lousy viewing angles. I feel like I’m constantly adjusting [...]
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I was an AAA member over a year ago and I get this in the mail saying it’s my new card and a bill. They make it look like its a bill. I called in and they said “no, it’s just a promotion” If that’s not a scam, then it’s at least pretty shady to [...]
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We recently upgraded the home survelience system here at the house and the improvement is like ‘night and day’, literally! This new system puts the old one to shame in a big way, but then again, so does the price tag. The Linksys was around $90 dollars per camera and supposedly had all the motion [...]
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Everyone has their method of avoiding spam and here’s how I’m doing it. I’m using what I call disposable email addresses in Gmail. The idea is that I periodically create new Gmail email accounts that forward to my main Gmail account. When any one email address is ‘compromised’ and ends up with a lot of spam, I can [...]
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Front Panel USB Card Reader
After a year of being in the box, I finally installed a media card reader in my roomate’s PC. It would have stayed in the box indefinitely if it weren’t for her buying a new digital camera that needed the SD card reader this drive bay provides. I was initially daunted by the sheer number of wires [...]
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Virgin Mobile Mifi
I mentioned in a previous post that I dropped t-mobile and would be using two cell phones. One cheap prepay cell and an iphone 2g for the dataplan. Well I found a better solution and finally it’s available after 5 months of being out of stock. Introducing the Vigin mobile prepay 3g mifi. For the [...]
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I like my computer on and ready to react as soon as I want to use it, and for this reason I never manually shut it off. But does it really make sense to keep it on 24/7, even when I’m at work or asleep? Probably not. To get the best of both worlds, I [...]
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