Tracking the online status off your Xbox Live friends is easy on your iPhone or iPod Touch using 1337pwn. This application will allow you to not only see the online status of your Xbox Live friends but you can also view their avatars, games played, gamer points broken down by game, and easily send messages to…
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My Windows XP laptop during boot used to automatically log on my primary user. At some point either during a Windows XP security update or after installing an application that changed and I was taken to a Windows XP splash screen and required to click on my user to log in. An example of what…
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I have been messing around with Microsoft Outlook 2007 today in an attempt to not only make it start quicker but also to make it run more efficiently. One area I have been concentrating on is the Trust Center where you can manage the Outlook Add-ins. The more Add-ins you can disable the better as…
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I use Evernote mostly for management of notes across multiple computers and so if my laptop ever crashes again I don’t have to sweat losing all of the notes I have taken. A friend that also uses Evernote was asking about file attachment which I had not used before so I looked into how to…
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I recently installed PostgreSQL on an Amazon Web Services CentOS instance however when I first attempted to start Postgres I received an error that I had never seen before. The pgstartup.log file located in /var/lib/pgsql contained the below data.
When attempting to install rubygems on a fresh Amazon Web Services EC2 instance I received the below error. Ruby had been installed by default on the instance and I was installing rubygems manually. The below error was received when attempting to run the setup.rb script with ruby.
If you attempt to run Ruby and get the above error it is because Ruby is not in your path. This can be caused by numerous reasons such as if you removed Ruby to reinstall it and you were still logged into the same shell. If this is the case you can simply log out…
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When embedding a linked image into an HTML page it will have a blue border by default which can be helpful at times to see that the image is linked to a URL however most of the time it looks ugly. Use the information below to remove this border completely. The border may show purple if you…
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The question has come up numerous times about how long Kodak’s www.kodakgallery.com website will store your digital images online. The answer is in the terms and conditions and was changed near the beginning of the year in March. Below is what the policy is as of March of 2009. Kodak (www.kodakgallery.com) Storage Policy: .
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