- Gaming Monitor For the first time in years, ok closer to a decade, I have decided to upgrade my monitor. I have always wanted a curved screen. The few times I have used one it felt immersive and frankly, futuristic. The kid in me loves the future.
- Don't Mess with Paste It is becoming a theme with websites, in particular banking websites to prevent pasting in your password. They claim this is for security. However all it does is prevent people from using Password Managers.
- Bad Company 2 - Username Bug There is a bug in the game that can make playing it online impossible. If a someone connects to a server with a specific style of username then the server lags and it makes the game unplayable until that person (with the bad username) leaves.
- Netflix Debug / Diagnostic / Hidden Feature Keys Here are some hidden options for the desktop (in your browser) Netflix player. It is possible that they can disable or remove these.
- iTunes Tricks and Fixing Syncing issues I recently had a problem syncing my iPhone 5. It would get to step 2 and iTunes would freeze. I was able to do a backup but syncing purchased apps was impossible. After following every possible support forum post someone finally mentioned that the library might be corrupt.
- PSA - Every time you post a photo of your credit card god kills a kitten. PSA - Every time you post a photo of your credit card god kills a kitten.
- SSH into a Synology NAS using a keypair or How to Login to your Synology NAS via SSH with a keypair instead of a password.
- NES / SNES Ports to USB
- Be wary of your search results. I needed to update Adobe Flash on my computer. I fire up my browser and type in the search bar “adobe flash”. The search engines are usually faster at finding the product’s download page as compared to looking for it on the companies website.
- Circuit City wants my SSN I recently made a purchase from Circuit City, it was for under $100 dollars. And I saw this message at the “Thank You for your purchase” screen.
- Surprise.exe I received a phone call the other day from a friend, now referred to as John He said he kept getting a popup on his screen saying that he was infected with a virus and for the low price of $79.99 this program would remove it. John then started to tell me about this email he received, from someone he knew and he was expecting this person to send him a file. I saw this email, and it looked something like this: