Directv users have wanted multi-room ability to watch their recorded shows from their dvr on other hd receivers. Well, now it’s possible. The Multi-Room DVR beta is probably already on your HD-DVR receiver. Go to your setup menu and look for “multi-room”. Before I get to how multi-room performs, I *think* the multi-room beta is only [...]
It occurred to me that a lot of people have things to rant about. Your first option might be to rant on twitter or facebook, but you “sort of” know those people. Those sites aren’t anonymous and you sure as heck aren’t going to waste your time creating a blog. Enter NerdRANT. NerdRANT is a [...]
For those of you experiencing the sporadic error “[checkperlmodules] The perl module DateTime could not be installed”, there is hope for you! Over at the cpanel forums they have a simple suggested fix that seemed to work for me. SSH to your server and type in: /scripts/perlinstaller –force List::MoreUtils Reply back with your comments if [...]
This is my first jQuery guide specifically for newbies who either don’t have much experience with jQuery or just need to see an example to understand it. The more examples you read, the better off you are at developing your own stuff. For those of you hoping to see jQuery UI 1.8′s autocomplete, sorry to [...]
When I first started to dabble with javascript and ajax, Prototype was the only game in town that was making any headlines. So of course I used prototype with script.aculo.us . I was able to make some simple stuff, but my coding with Prototype wasn’t very elegant and it certainly wasn’t the best way to code things. [...]
I read a post today at c|net saying that Scott Ambrose Reilly is moving on from Amazon.com’s music division. I of course had no idea who he was until I read the article. Now that I know who it is, I have to say thanks for all he has done. 3+ years ago, 98% of [...]
Many of us heard of the iPad’s new Gmail interface and want to check it out themselves. The good news is that it’s extremely easy to change Chrome’s user agent for Windows users without an extension or anything too complicated. Click properties on your chrome shortcut and add the following: -user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS [...]
You just started to play your game (possibly Metro 2033) and saw the error pop up about X3DAudio1_7.dll is missing. This error is about Microsoft’s DirectX missing a few required files. All you need is a simple update, so let’s get straight to the fix. Head over to Microsoft’s website to download DirectX End-User Runtime. This [...]
Finally an advanced Google keyword ranking checker that is free. The site is aptly named KeywordRankings and is geared towards SEO people looking to save a history of where their keywords rank in Google. Feature List: Entire Service is free Add unlimited domains Add unlimited keywords Each keyword ranking is checked once per day Each [...]
I was doing my daily rounds of sites that I visit and noticed that The Big Lead had a post about Lost. My hope was that they were going to make fun of the nonsense and explain how many times they laughed out loud. Like when Hurley was doing yet another slow-motion scene. But of course not. [...]