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Starting a Computer Repair Business 9 Nov 2012 | 01:52 pm
Starting a Computer Repair Business If you are like me you grew up always being interested in Computers. I was always reading thick computer books for fun and tinkering with all the computers we had a...
Windows XP Won’t Boot 9 Nov 2012 | 01:33 pm
Windows XP won’t boot If you’ve worked with windows for 2 minutes you’ve probably been exposed to the Blue Screen of Death or BsD. Usually Blue Screens are rather harmless and go away after a reboot. ...
Setup VPS with Debian, Nginx and Virtualmin 14 Mar 2012 | 03:26 pm
I recently upgraded my VPS to use Nginx and Virtualmin and found it to be a killer setup. Nginx is superfast in a low memory setup and Virtualmin GPL edition is a powerful and free control panel which...
How to style input tag file uploads in Webkit (Chrome, Safari) 4 Mar 2012 | 10:54 pm
If you’ve ever been tasked with creating a consistent user experience across all web browsers you’ve probably had a real challenge styling form input elements. Historically IE has been the most challe...
How to get cash for old computers 6 Sep 2011 | 05:55 am
If you’re like me you probably have a small or not-so-small collection of computer stuff most of which is obsolete, broken or both. Well now it’s possible to clean out your closet and get some cash fo...
Cheap VPS ~ 512mb for $4.76/month 24 Jul 2011 | 09:03 am
If you need root access but don’t want to any more than a shared hosting account price then check out burst.net. I have found them to be reliable and fast with reasonable support. UPDATE: Now till end...
IE9 image load event bug 7 Jun 2011 | 10:49 am
I just found a problem with IE9 in how it handles the load event for img tags. With IE8 and earlier if I wanted to perform some JS function after an image loaded I could do something like this: img =...
Use webp images with jpeg fallback 5 May 2011 | 03:52 pm
Behold the Power of WebP If the below image has “webp” in the corner your browser can display WebP. If it has “jpeg” it is because your browser cannot show WebP images but the user experience remains...
Install X11 on OS X 10.4 Tiger Without the Install DVD 22 Apr 2011 | 04:57 pm
I’m always surprised how hard it is to install standard open source packages on OS X and X11 is no different. Installing it on 10.4 is virtually impossible without the original installation DVD which ...
Eshop Authorize.net AIM Integration 19 Apr 2011 | 06:56 am
Eshop is a nice ecommerce plugin for WordPress but it does not support taking credit card information directly on the site but redirects the customer to Authorize.net site or Paypal or some other paym...