So there’s already a bunch of people belly-aching about AT&T dropping their unlimited plan from iPhones. First thing to consider is that if you have an unlimited plan now and want to keep it, you can. So shut up. Okay, so now for the real numbers on this. The current $30/month plan is being replaced [...]
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iPhone screen is blank! HELP!
So my iPhone screen went blank today. Scared the crap out of me. I thought it was a goner, even though it had received no ill treatment. It still seemed active, even vibrated with an incoming call, but there was no way to answer it with no screen activity. I plugged it into my computer [...]
If you’re on Vonage, this line is disconnected.
I was a Vonage customer for years. First with a residential line, then another personal/business line, and then most recently my primary business phone was a Vonage line. Vonage is fine, I’m not going to complain about quality, it’s as good as our internet connection, which isn’t amazing, so there’s that. I switched my business [...]
Sims2 Fix on a Dell Inspiron 1525 vista video crash bang boom.
So let’s say that you’re my wife and you like to play the Sims. The Sims 2 in fact with a fair few expansions. Let’s say that your geek husband bought you a shiny new vista running dell inspiron 1525 and loaded up your transfered settings, neighborhoods and all and sure it loads the Sims, [...]
Pro Tools Stationary Pad Creates Copies
This is a Mac OSX workaround for the Stationary Pad functionality of Pro Tools. When you create a template for a session, life is good, but or some reason OSX is broken when you try and use it in the proper fashion. It constantly makes a copy of the template each time you open it [...]
Unwanted Microsoft Office Virus Scan
So when you open documents in Word or Excel, does it request a virus scan an take seemingly forever to load? In the case of a vista machine running AVG 8 virus software, this is how it’s fixed. run cmd as administrator cd to C:\program files\avg\avg8 type ‘regsvr32 /u avgoff2k.dll’ enter. bang. AVG no longer [...]