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It would be great if we could sticky this. Yeah Yeah Yeah, everybody has a theory, but this is what I do for a living. I manage a Helpdesk for about 4000 users with only 3 techs and myself, so we have to fast and efficient. There are lots of programs you can run and things you do, but...
This comes in handy if your cookies get corrupted and you keep getting logged out. Check all the boxes for your cookies and hit the "delete my cookies" button - HERE Next time you log in.. new cookies will be created and you wont have the problem anymore. This is also useful if...
I finally updated to a Blu-ray player last month. But I'm having a slight problem when playing my old DVDs in it. The audio track (usually only the commentary) skips around and repeats itself while the movie is playing. Any idea what could be causing this?
When first opening a youtube vid, I would get the small viewer and have to expand it. (I don't mean full-screen BTW). Then, for each subsequent video, it would open in the large viewer automatically. Now, it always opens small, and never defaults to the highest quality available. I'm running...
I got mine this afternoon. The screen is absoluely ridiculous. I downloaded Mass Effect: Iniltrator, and the thing is gorgeous. For me, I can actually hold the iPad further away from my face because the text is so crisp and clear. And the camera on this thing got a much needed upgrade. Anyone...
Damn thing died after less than 2 years. It started constantly resetting, then somehow it factory reset all by itself. Had it all back to it's old settings and now the power light blinks and nothing more. Factory reset does nothing.
Ok, I know there are a lot of phone-specific threads on this board, but I'm more looking at the overall picture and I'm too fucking lazy to look in each Android phone's specific thread to find the info. Right now I'm looking at a Samsung Epic 4G as an upgrade from my Palm Pre. The next...
What, if anything, do you have? I bought a Lifeproof case yesterday, but took it back today. The casing didn't allow for an AUX input or a pair of headphones I have to go in, it only let you use the stock-ear-buds. And also, for the waterproofing, you had to unscrew a cap in order to put your...
Oh sing me the song of your Android apps. Especially free ones. I finally have a big boy phone so I thought I'd go to the experts. Unfortunately, I don't know any experts, so I'm asking you jokers instead. Wokka wokka.
I am looking to get my wife a color e reader. They are priced the same. Leaning toward kindle fire simply for the extras like netflix, pandora and facebook. Anyone have any opinions on the 2?
Never done it. Want to make one from about 5 seconds of Video. Tried a few sites, but they all seem to be for just images. Anyone have some experience with Gifs?
I want to build a website. I went to GoDaddy and registered a domain name. They offer web space and a "user friendly" program to make the website. It costs like $7/month or I can buy a prog like Dream Weaver for hundreds and get updates every few years.The website is for our music video release...
http://www.macworld.com/article/1166487/adobe_launches_creative_suite_6_alongside_new_creative_cloud_subscription_service.html $50/ with a year contract or $75 month to month. This pisses me off, because I paid $1299 for CS5 back in October. Fuck me.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/253683/sonys_smartwatch_brings_android_to_the_wrist.html
I did! http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3220862 Just picked a 16GB up for $99.99 at my local MicroCenter. Ive used the Palm Pre/Pixi, so I know WebOS and actually like it. I'll use it as is until the devs port Android over to it. Deal of the century I say, considering it...
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I like to listen to mp3s as I sleep and I could just let winamp play under WinXP with my monitor off. With Win7, I'm just using WMP, but after a while windows will stop the mp3 playback. I can move my mouse to resume playback, but I just want this shit to run all night long. I've disabled...
What would be the performance of this thing compared to an old Core Duo system? It says Pentium Processor, but it's Dual Core and Sandybridge. Would it be an upgrade? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=1753651&sku=T71-11005
So I've had the same dumb HP desktop since late 2007. It's been a fucking workhorse but its age is finally showing, and I've been out of the PC market for so long none of the names of the processors or graphics cards mean shit to me. I'm looking for a cheap (maybe 500 tops) desktop PC. Mainly...
Both Off Topic and Tech Support. I have a customer who is looking for the following item; Day/night, look down, high res (520+ Lines), smoke detector, with IR illumination, wired. (Day color, Night B/W). He would like around 120 degree view angle but 90 will work if that is all that can be...
I have an 80GB iPod Classic (5th Gen I believe) that is stuck in recovery mode. The play button stopped working, so I restored it to see if it was a hardware problem or a software problem. After I did that it keeps saying that it's in recovery mode and I need to restore it. I've restored it...
Is there a way to completely stop Internet Explorer from opening when a link is clicked or when something is inserted into a usb port? I am having a problem with it opening and having a blank page displayed. I can't find any way around it. I normally use Firefox and have it set as my default...
I did the flashlight deal, no picture. Hooked up an external monitor and push Fn F8 but no picture on the external monitor. I hear a bleeping noise in windows telling me that I pushed the buttons. Is there a click yes gadget happening on the screen (that I can't see) or should it just happen? ...
So I finally got a Apple device as a birthday present. It's a 8GB Ipod touch and all I want to do is fucking upload one goddamn folder and I can't figure out how. I am sure it probably something simple but fuck me if I am not seriously not enjoying Itunes so far.
Posting from my phone, so I can't be arsed to dig through the android thread. Seriously looking at the Bionic as an upgrade from my OG Droid. After my upgrade price, rebate, and $50 discount, the final cost to me would only be $50. Verizon already has 4g towers in my area, and this was the only...
…just died on me. Had it for less than a year. What a piece of shit!! NEVER buy anything from that company.
Trojan going around that is effecting a couple hundred thousand Macs. Instructions for finding and deleting the Trojan if you're infected are in the story; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17623422
While I'm on the computer the screen goes blank, I can what's on my screen but it is so dark that you can't do anything. It's like someone put a heavy tint on my screen. I turn the screen off and on with the power button and it works like normal. This happens about a couple of times a week. My...
I was running Spinrite on an old Dell and saw a 3.5gb Digital Research CPM partition. Is this a system restore partition? I can't mount and view it with anything. There are three, the main NT, and one that is in fat format, about 300mb. that looks like the hardware utilities partition. By the...
I've got a 4TB Seagate external HD, which is nice, but my previous external HD was an Iomega HD that had an integrated power switch. That HD was only 2 TB or so. Anybody know of any inexpensive large capacity external HDs with a power switch? Or an HD enclosure with a power switch, so I can put...
Anybody here have Verizon FIOS for TV and internet? My landlady is switching the whole house over from Cablevision later this month and I was wondering what differences to expect.
I'm an electronics rookie, but man these things look so cool. I'm ordering up an UNO beginners kit to get started and an Electronics For Dummies ebook to start figuring out what the different components do. Just wondering if anyone else ever has messed with these.
So I have had a Macbook Pro from about 2008 and never had an issue with it. The screen blew out but other than that I have never had a problem. In the last week or two the keyboard, trackpad, and mouse button have gone unresponsive but a quick reboot solved the problem. Same thing happened today...
Came across this, found it useful. It identifies all of the drivers on your system and lets you get more updated versions for the obscure ones you may not find yourself.
Okay, so my old netbook got the computer AIDS and is dead as a doornail. *insert too much porn joke here* Fact is, I wasn't very careful with it. My Norton trial ended and the virus protection I added wouldn't work with Norton installed, and I never got around to uninstalling Norton...and,...
Wondering if anyone can help me find a good sound recording program for my PC? basically what I'm looking for something that can record any sound that is currently playing on my PC, much like a screen grabber program will just grab everything that you point-and-click to on the screen. If anybody...
Admittedly this is a "White guy problem", but I recently was given an older 52 inch plasma(?) HDTV. It's bigger than the 32 inch HDTV I had in the living room so I'm using it there. Anyway, whenever it goes from HD to SD, the screen turns black for about 3-4 seconds and then again when it goes...
So I've got a bad ass Sony VAIO, and apparently there's a known problem with them that I've been afflicted with as well. Long story short the power input jack starts only working if you jiggle it, then not at all. Apparently it's a pretty easy fix if you know what you're doing, but Sony will...
This link is a list of 446 places to get free, legal eBooks online. Last updated in November of 2011. http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm
Amazon just started selling refurbished Kindles for $139 so I decided to pick one up. I know it's not the best one out on the market and there are new ones coming out soon but it seemed like a cheap way to get one to mess around with. Now I know nothing about ebooks, what kind of files are out...
Not a real problem, just started doing it a few minutes ago. I don't mind it, but wonder if they will offer other themes soon. April Fools from Adblock?
A number of them are scratched. I have an allertec disc repair device which works but I want to trade in and sell these dvd's. I was thinking about the jfj easy pro disc repair machine on amazon for 150.00 The reviews are pretty good. I just need a disc to not look like it was buffed...
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