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Lost Sucks

24 May 2010 by brant, Comments

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 of [...]

I introduce to you, a new way to rant

23 April 2010 by brant, Comments
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 [...]

Change Google Chrome’s UserAgent

4 April 2010 by brant, Comments
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 3_2 [...]

X3DAudio1_7.dll is missing

23 March 2010 by brant, Comments
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 file [...]

SEO, To Hyphen or Underscore URLs Revisited

5 March 2010 by brant, Comments

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 now)
Slowly [...]

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Speed Up Gmail’s POP Fetching

2 March 2010 by brant, Comments
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 created [...]

The Death of iTunes Apps

27 January 2010 by brant, Comments

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 [...]