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 [...]
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 [...]
Free Google Search Keyword Tracking
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 [...]
Lost is a Travesty
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. [...]
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 [...]
Tips + Guide to Switch from Outlook to Gmail
We want our email, and we want it fast. The goal of this guide is to replace outlook as your primary mail collector with Gmail. I just took the plunge and it’s been such a huge improvement that I want you to benefit as well. We want Gmail to open as if it’s an application, save it’s position on your screen, and notify you of new emails just as Outlook does.
Gmail Notifier Not Working? It’s because of HTTPS
I’ve encountered a simple, yet annoying problem when it comes to Google’s Gmail Notifier. It turns out that if you select the option to always use HTTPS, then the notifier will not work. The fix can be seen on the Notifier page, which is a registry edit. Surely Google can do a better job of notifying us [...]
amazonaws.com AKA Amazon EC2 is Being Abused
Have you recently discovered a long list of amazonaws.com IPs listed in your websites stats and wondered what’s it for? I was under the assumption that if I saw those IPs it’d probably be good news because I thought Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud had reputable clients. It turns out that Amazon’s EC2 is a breeding [...]