latest blog

• Little Tip: Schedule Defraggler for Daily Defrags

  February 1, 2010 | No comments

  I’ve decided to start a “Little Tip” section of this blog where I will highlight little things that I now take for granted that others may not, and the first thing is how to setup Defraggler to run daily defrags.  Written instructions are below the screencast.  Please bear with me as this is the first screencast I’ve done with CamStudio. 1.  First of all, if you don’t have Defraggler, ...

• Windows 7 Full Installation with Upgrade Media

  December 2, 2009 | No comments

  I was in the process of installing Windows 7 as a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro, but I ran into the problem that my serial key was only for the upgrade version of Windows 7.  However, I own previous versions of Windows Vista and XP, and I really did not want to install an old version just to install Windows 7.  Thankfully, it was pretty easy, although a little time consuming to do a full installation ...

• Feedly For Google Chrome Released

  November 26, 2009 | No comments

  Finally!  I’ve been using Feedly for a very long time, and it’s always been only available on Firefox.  It’s really the only reason I had to stay with Firefox since that was the only extension I really ever used.  Feedly was just released today for Google Chrome.  You can find instructions for installing it here. If you don’t know what Feedly is, it is an awesome way to ...

• 7 Google Wave Invites Available

  November 13, 2009 | 2 comments

  Update 11/21/2009: I ran out of invites.  If I get anymore, I’ll make another post. If you are looking for a Google Wave invite, let me know by sending an email using my Contact page.  I’ll give them to the first people who request them.  Also, it may take a couple days for you to actually receive your invite once I send it out.  If you don’t know what Google Wave is, then where ...

• Watch TV and Movies online with Clicker

  November 12, 2009 | No comments

  Clicker just launched its public beta.  I had heard about this site a little while ago, but wasn’t able to try it out.  Now since it is in public beta, anyone may access it.  The first thing that comes to my mind when I go to this site is Sidereel.  If you don’t know what Sidereel is, it lists TV shows and movies and gives links to buy or stream the show or movie.  However, the legality ...

• Panda Cloud Antivirus – Free Antivirus for Windows

  November 11, 2009 | No comments

  Panda Cloud Antivirus was recently taken out of beta and released to the public.  Personally, I’ve been using Microsoft Security Essentials since its release, but I thought I’d try out Panda to see how it works.  I have to say that the performance of Panda is much better considering that it does most of its processing in the cloud. What Panda Cloud Antivirus does is it scans certain files ...

• Wordpress – Delete Pending Comments

  November 10, 2009 | No comments

  I had a huge amount of pending comments since removing the Intense Debate plugin.  I was able to manually remove probably around 100,000 comments in my database by searching for specific words and IP addresses, but I still had about 60,000 spam comments in my pending queue.  There is no easy way built into Wordpress to delete these comments, so I found a plugin called Delete Pending Comments, which ...

• Rizone’s Power Tools – Windows Tools and Utilities

  November 9, 2009 | 1 comment

  I was having a strange issue the past couple of days that prevented me from accessing my website from my work computer.  I have no idea why it happened, but I was able to fix it by repairing Winsock.  I found a program called Winsock XP Fix that did the job, but I wondered if there would be a program that would do this on Windows 7.  I found such a program, but it also offers a whole lot more. Rizone’s ...

• New Theme – WPLine

  November 9, 2009 | 1 comment

  I’ve been working this weekend on getting my new theme set up since I have had the urge to get back into blogging.  The theme is called WPLine, and it took me a little to get it right.  The theme is originally in Vietnamese, so there were some words that I needed to translate into English (and there may still be some more that I missed).  I’ll be tweaking it as time goes on, but this ...

• Really Starting to Hate AT&T

  June 11, 2009 | No comments

  After reading all of the news this week about the new iPhone coming out soon, I’m really starting to hate AT&T.  I’ve been with AT&T ever since I got my first cellphone over 5 years ago.  I haven’t really had any trouble with service, but there are a few things lately that have really started to tick me off. First of all, why do loyal customers who have a contract already ...