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 January 9, 2012 12:29am by Steve | House Renovation |
We have a number of Lutron Faedra light switches in our home, and they have worked predictably (and awesomely) for many years. However, just recently, one of the switches started exhibiting strange behavior. When pressed, it would bring up the room lights to full maximum… which was not desired. With a single press, the switches [...]
 June 29, 2011 10:26am by Steve | Complaint |
Obnoxious Warner Bros.
I rented Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 from Netflix the other day. When I went to watch it I was shocked to find that my MENU button had been disabled! They even disabled the STOP button so I couldn’t stop the DVD from playing! They were actually [...]
 June 14, 2011 12:02am by Steve | Cool Things |
I was messing around with importing video from an old, tape video camcorder via Firewire when I killed my Mac Mini. I looked at the back of the Mini, not remembering whether or not it had a Firewire port. I saw something that looked like that kind of port and started to shove the [...]
 June 9, 2011 4:24pm by Steve | Tutorials |
Today I was attempting to transfer a MySQL database from one MySQL server to another. I was using the excellent MySQL client software from PremiumSoft called Navicat. The transfer kept failing with the following error:
2006 – MySQL server has gone away
When the direct data transfer failed I tried backing up my old [...]
 June 5, 2011 10:47pm by Steve | Tutorials |
Firefox, especially Firefox 4 has some messed up default font rendering. It can leave fonts blurry or even with slight red and green tinting and halos. Fortunately there is an extremely easy way to fix this problem. Just following these short steps:
In Firefox, type “about:config” in the address bar and hit Enter. Continue [...]
 May 5, 2010 4:26pm by Steve | Tutorials |
My Toshiba NB 305-N310 netbook battery loses its charge after 1 week of non-use. Here is how I fixed this problem.
Toshiba NB305-N310 NetBook
I’ve never had any previous portable computer exhibit this behavior. I’ve got an old Dell laptop that can sit for 6 month or more and maintain a charge. This [...]
 April 27, 2010 5:33pm by Steve | Tutorials |
We have uncovered a fix for this problem. Sometimes installing and using a Magic Jack device will cause your speakers to stop working. If this has happened to you, please follow these steps for a potential fix!
Windows XP 1. Click Start 2. Click Control Panel 3. If your Control Panel is in Category [...]
 February 25, 2009 12:02am by Steve | Tutorials |
Here is an after-the-fact tutorial that I put together using all of my in-progress saves during the creation of my latest Brushes painting. This was my 5th painting using Brushes on my iPod.
Click the Cheeky Tiki below to view the tutorial:
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