Last December I got a PM from a fellow forum member that this website, listed in my sig, was marked as an Attack Site by Norton. Oh, joy. I get little enough readership as it is. He gave me a list of malware my site was supposed to have, complete URL’s. Needless to say they … Continue reading
Category Archives: digital lifestyle
The Geek side of life. Nuts and bolts of how to fix, modify, and improve the gadgets of your life.
Radio Shack Goes Bankrupt
Radio Shack is going bankrupt, and the Internet has erupted in waves of nostalgia and false nostalgia. Why not? It’s my turn. As the orphan son of an Engineer, I had an early love of electronics. I made circuits the hard way at first, with a soldering iron, loose wires and a brown breadboard. My … Continue reading
Fixing Firefox 29 Tabs On Top without an add-on
So Mozilla, the organization that prides itself on openness and freedom of thought and being different, pulls a bonehead group-think move. No, not firing its CEO for daring to have his own political opinions. Finally implementing its threat to look just like every other browser out there, and move tabs from the bottom to the … Continue reading
Google tightens the Google+ noose
From what I observe myself and other’s using, Google’s killer web apps are (in no particular order) GMail, Youtube, Maps and of course Search. Other projects have been hit and miss and many have been shut down from lack of interest, like their CSS reader. Some do OK but are heavily competed, like Google Drive … Continue reading
Stay Alert
So I’m going to work late today (two hour school snow delay) and hit a backup at the usual spot, only it’s not the usual slowdown. It’s a dead stop. So I bail off of an exit and explore (hey I’m two hours late anyway). My first attempt at free navigation leads to a half … Continue reading
Android transfer SIM and Phone Contacts to GMail Contacts
Problem: Move SIM-only and Phone-only contacts from deactivated Android phone into GMail account, where it will automatically sync onto new phone… using nothing but ‘Net. Solution: Here’s what I did. (This assumed a deactivated, but not wiped phone with good working WiFi.) 0. Get deactivated phone on WiFi, since otherwise it got no data. Applications->Contacts->Menu->More-> … Continue reading
The Problem with Comments
Recently Popular Science turned off user comments entirely on new articles. In true PopSci style, they justified the move with a study, unlinked, but linked to the study’s author’s OpEd on the study, justifying their move by saying that the existence of polarizing comments unduly influence readers, and outweigh the ability of civil discourse to … Continue reading
Daily surfing failures
I went to Philips‘ site to compare their various headlamps for autos. I picked two for comparison. The results were: 12V versus 12.8V, and both were the same wattage. Oh, yeah. How about… Lumens? Color temp? Expected life? Lots of pretty Flash, though. Now I’m worried about that 0.8V! (Not really. There’s almost nothing 12.0V … Continue reading
digital lifestyle / linux / mint / ubuntu
Mint 14 Can’t Burn
After some struggles with a previous distro, I installed Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon on my Desktop earlier this year, and couldn’t be more happy with it. It “just works”. Until today. Today I got a new laptop (yeah!) because my old one died (boo) and went to burn the latest, Mint 15, on the Desktop … Continue reading
Why the Awesome Lunametrics Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet Matters
OK, by now you’ve probably seen it, reposted across every blog of every stripe imaginable: Lunametric’s Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet. (Viewable in full below.) Awesome. For the casual Social Media user and blogger, it may seem a lot of fuss about nothing. Doesn’t Facebook (for example) resize and crop everything anyway? Don’t I get … Continue reading
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