I’ve been experimenting with Amazon Instant Video this past week, and found that some of my Linux machines were giving me a message that “ flash player needs to be updated” even though I was running the exact same version of flash on computers where Amazon Instant Video worked. After Googling the problem, I found that …
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Jul 09 2012
Disabling Voice Control On My iPod
Every so often my iPod will stop playing podcasts for no apparent reason. Every time this happens I’ll pull it out of my pocket and find that Voice Control has been activated. Other times I’ll find FaceTime running even though I have the icon hidden. Still other times I’ll catch my iPod trying to call one of …
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Jun 10 2012
Figuring Out Do Not Track (DNT)
Do Not Track is supposed to be simple. And yes if you want to activate it in Firefox it is easy — simply check the box labeled: Tell websites I do not want to be tracked. But if you are using a browser that doesn’t support it or actually want to test if it is …
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May 14 2012
Bluetooth Dropouts On An Ipod
I love listening to podcasts on my iPod with my bluetooth headphones. There’s no cord to snag, I have extra controls for skipping ahead or back a few seconds in a podcast, and I don’t have to deal with uncomfortable buds in my ears. Unfortunately, a few weeks ago I started having problems with the …
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May 14 2012
Get Rid Of The Camera Shutter Noise In IOS (Rooted)
When I’m in a store, I like to use my iPod camera to take pictures of items to remember later. Like the other day I saw a cool lathe attachment rack and I wanted to take a picture of it so I could make one in my shop later. Of course when I hit the …
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Mar 23 2012
WooHoo! Ice Cream Sandwich on my Acer A500
I’ve been waiting for Acer to release Ice Cream Sandwich for my A500 Tablet for months. Tired of waiting, I decided to take matters into my own hands and find a ICS rom to flash on my rooted tablet. Luckily, Acer’s actual ICS beta’s have been leaking onto the internet and some industrious hackers have provided roms based on the leaked …
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Jan 18 2012
Dolby Digital Through SPDIF on My MythBox
Ever since an upgrade, I’ve been having problems with the sound on one of my MythBoxes. It was so bad I was forced to fall back to analog stereo. So today I resolved that I was going to fix the issue. After all I knew it could be done, I had Dolby Digital working before. …
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Dec 16 2011
Finding Twitter RSS Feeds
Steve Gibson of Security Now fame just created a new twitter account (@SGreads) for posting the stories he finds interesting. Now I could follow him on Twitter, but that is pretty useless. Trying to follow somebody on Twitter is like trying to drink out of a fire hose — most of the posts miss your …
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Nov 01 2011
Creating an RSS Feed for Your Google +1′s
This week Google dropped the ability to share items within Google Reader, instead they added way to +1 a story and/or share it in Google+. Unfortunately this broke another website I run, I previously used the shared items RSS feed to get a list of these shared stories on website. There is now no easy …
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Jul 23 2011
Applying CSS to Google Calendar Embedded in an iframe
On a Drupal site I am developing, I wanted to embed a Google calendar agenda view into a sidebar block. There are no reliable modules that do this for version 7, so I just used Google’s method. They make this quite simple all you do is visit your calendar page click on the little down …
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