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Initial Review: Inspiron 1520
The laptop has arrived!
The first step to getting this laptop up and running is upgrade that RAM. The laptop was ordered with 1GB of RAM, but I purchased 2GB separately (cheaper). Installation of RAM was my first challenge..
RAM Installation
Installing RAM is my biggest complaint about the laptop. Unlike most laptops where you just remove a [...]
No more love for Windows XP
This week marked yet another stab at the heart of Windows XP.
Say you’ve got a copy of Windows XP. You had to do a “reinstall” and now Windows wants to activate. You run the activation process and find out that you need to call Microsoft because your key could not be verified. Of course, you’d [...]
Net Radio Saved…sort of
As most of you can probably tell, no online radio stations have turned off yet. They’re all still running and broadcasting, albeit with more ads in some cases, but still there. Wasn’t the prediction that all these sites were going to shut down on doomsday?
They were, but that’s assuming that the new outrageous rates were [...]
Shipping!
Dell has a fancy little tool called “Estimated Ship Date” whenever you purchase something from them. In my long history of purchasing from Dell (and from many stories from others), no one has ever had to wait until the actual estimated ship date for the purchased equipment to ship.
That was true until today.
Dell has finally [...]
LOLCATS Bible
In the beginning there was LOLCATS. And it was questionable. Then there was the LOLCATS Bible.
A small Office 2007 bug
Here’s an interesting little bug for you:
When you first install and run Office 2007, the “Office Button” on the upper-left corner keeps blinking until you click it (presumably to get users to notice this new button at the corner). Turns out that not clicking that button has it’s consequences. In Word, if you don’t click [...]
Cheat to Win: Napster II
In a previous post, I explained how to use the DRM in Windows Media in your favor to save music from Napster. Today that entire process got a lot easier.
You can use the same instructions, you just don’t need the Virtual Machine, or the old version of Windows Media Player, or any other extras. Just [...]
Local Account? I’ll pass.
I’ve got plenty of workstations and laptops at my work, and they’re all hooked up to the domain. When I set one of these boxes up, I try to keep the local accounts to a minimum, just because no one [should] ever log in locally.
If you’ve ever set up Windows XP, you know that at [...]
Cool Vista Trick
Back in the days of Windows XP, if you wanted to open a Command Prompt from the directory you were working in, you had two options: (1) Open the command prompt and manually navigate to the folder. (2) Install the XP Powertoy that was later released to support this.
In Vista, that is now included in [...]
iPhone Review
This is the only iPhone review you’ll ever have to read. Ever.
~Jaker