This is the first post in what will hopefully become an ongoing series here on MyBSOD where we will look at some of the more absent minded things that people do either online or with technology in general.
For this first post, I want to talk about a girl who I knew who used a popular [...]
I was looking through some news tonight and I noticed an article on Digg that sparked my attention regarding an upcoming media center software package for the Gnome desktop environment in Linux. Seeing as I just did two articles regarding building your own media center pc, I thought that this would be welcomed news for those [...]
Over the past couple of years, i’m sure almost everyone has had a run in with spyware while trying to do a simple search for free lyrics online. There are plenty of websites out there that take advantage of the fact that newer computer users won’t be aware of the dangers of the web and [...]
I was reading through some technology news tonight and I stumbled across an interesting piece of FREE software called “Spiceworks“. Basically, Spiceworks is an all inclusive network management software suite that will allow you to do everything from taking inventory of your current computer hardware, to troubleshooting network issues. The software is ad supported and sponsored by a [...]
WARNING: attempting any of this could cause you bodily harm.
Dress like an iPod for Halloween.
Carefully take apart your MacBook Pro, and piece by piece grind it up in a BlendTec (Will it blend!?) Blender. Once complete, glue the “shrapnel” back together and demonstrate how your MacBook STILL WORKS!!
Take a lot of those really annoying, multi-color, [...]
…Absolutely, everything, sing it again!
In the few years that I have been in the I.T. business, doing tech support and just talking to friends I hear a reoccurring question: “why is my computer running so slow”. In some cases there are problems with spyware infections, sometimes a virus has sabotaged the system but most of the [...]
About a year ago I did a little experiment for a computer networking class that I was taking at the time where I drove around my town and a neighboring town running a program on my laptop to detect wireless networks. Let me make it perfectly clear, I had no intentions of accessing these networks or [...]
Now that you’ve gotten all the hardware components for your new DVR/Media center installed and configured, you will need to get some software. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, please check it out here. For starters, you will need an operating system. For most of you, you will be using a variation of Windows, [...]
So, you’re surfing around on the Internet and suddenly you notice that your system is being overrun with pop-ups and advertisements. Out of the corner of your eye you see that the program spywarefixer.exe (hypothetical name) is downloading to your system and is about to run. Knowing that something bad is about to happen and [...]
As mentioned last week, a lot of online music distributors have begun to switch away from the current DRM-Protected .WMA music download standard. The latest to switch is apparently Walmart.com which has been offering music downloads for a number of years now. According to this article on Ars Technica, Wal-Mart has begun to offer unprotected, [...]
