So if you’ve just recently purchased the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard and encountered an error saying “Recovering Lost memory”. I bet that error only occurs when your attempting to use tri-channel? Try to boot the machine with memory in just the first two memory groups closest to the CPU. Does it show the full memory correctly? [...]
Lost Sucks
The “cool” thing to say is that Lost was great. When the Sopranos ended people said how great that show was too. In both cases, good shows turned into steaming piles of dog shit rather quickly. So let me take a moment to explain why Lost sucked. Most of you are too lazy to re-watch season 1 [...]
I introduce to you, a new way to rant
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 [...]
Change Google Chrome’s UserAgent
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 [...]
X3DAudio1_7.dll is missing
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 [...]
SEO, To Hyphen or Underscore URLs Revisited
I’ve seen a lot of SEO Experts and many SEO tools recommend that you should be using hyphens in URLs rather than underscores, one example was Ann Smarty over at SearchEngineJournal. For the disadvantages of the underscore in URLs she says: Traditionally it isn’t seen by search engines as a word separator (this is slowly changing [...]
Speed Up Gmail’s POP Fetching
My previous post talked about how to switch from outlook to gmail because of speed and ease of use. From my experience, I noticed that Gmail’s POP fetching for email accounts that I added were not as fast as I would have liked. The solution is called GSpeed, which speeds up gmail pop fetching. I have [...]
The Death of iTunes Apps
By now everyone has heard of the iTunes commercials and the phrase “There’s an app for that”, but how much staying power does it really have? Just yesterday Google released Google Voice as a standalone web application that can be used in the browser. For some of us, it’s hard to imagine why this might [...]