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Love the iPhone, but not the battery life?

Laz — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:10:22 +0000

That’s me! I love my iPhone, but I don’t consider myself to be one of those blinder wearing fanbois either. I have had various and sundry mobile phones over the years, with one of the best being my Motorola Timeport. That thing lasted me five years and could still get better reception than anything else [...]

Beware World of Warcraft Cataclysm Beta Opt In Scam

Laz — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:07:36 +0000

In yet another new and trendy spammer and phishing ploy, I have been getting a few copies of a message claiming to be from Blizzard regarding Beta access to the Cataclysm expansion coming out soon. This one did give me pause at first because I am signed up for the Beta, waiting to see if [...]

Don’t count on Corel for support

Laz — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:05:00 +0000

Thought I would pass this along for anyone wishing to part with some of their hard earned duckets for some software and expected some type of semblance of support from the company that makes it. I purchased a product for video editing from Corel called Ulead Video Studio (I guess they bought Ulead like they [...]

Watch out for SPAM and PHISH(ing)

Laz — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:17:43 +0000

I have written before about spam and phishing attacks, but I thought it would be a good idea to re-visit this topic since there seems to be a concerted effort by senders out there to blast our collective Inboxes with not only hideous amounts of spam (which is bad enough), but also with a whole [...]

Beware Website Repair Wizards

Laz — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:05:18 +0000

We have all seen them, the commercials for fixit web sites that declare all you have to do is visit their site and they will magically fix your computer or make it run faster or any of a number promises. Well, I don’t want to sound like the Grinch on Christmas, but these sites just don’t [...]

VMware and avast! Internet Security Network Problem

Laz — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:33:34 +0000

Just in case I am not the only one to run into this, I thought I would post the answer to a problem that vexed me for a while. I run avast! Internet Security for my software host based firewall and anti-virus on my Windows boxes. On some of those I also have VMware Workstation [...]

Drop Down Date Picker For Excel

Laz — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:35:33 +0000

I was working on a spreadsheet where I had a range of cells I wanted a drop down date picker/calendar for. Now, I could have just added a bazillion calendar controls (one to each cell) but I knew that was cheesy and that there had to be a better way. Well now, I found an [...]

Keeping Up With Business Cards

Laz — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:35:11 +0000

If any of you are like me and deal with/meet lots of vendors and salespeople, keeping up with the mountain of business cards can be a job in and of itself. Whether you keep them in some kind of binder or Rolodex, or maybe just piled in a shoebox, they can be a real pain [...]

Linux, your iPhone and your pictures

Laz — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:54:22 +0000

I suppose this might work for an iPod touch as well, but the ones I have and have seen don’t have cameras. OK, on to the tip! Recently I wanted to get all of my pictures copied off of my iPhone and onto my computer running Linux, specifically Debian 5.0. Normally with something like a [...]

Transferring Apps From Your iPhone To iTunes

Laz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:48:20 +0000

I have my older model iPod, before touch screens and all that, and it’s a great gadget as I am sure anyone out there with one already knows. However, I recently purchased an iPhone 3GS and frankly it’s pretty much the best phone/PDA/PIM/etc that I have ever seen or had, and I started with my [...]