Archive for October, 2007
So get this one PCWorld does a lot of laptop testing and they have concluded that The Macbook Pro runs Vista better then any other machine!
The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year–or for that matter, ever–is a Mac. [...]
So apparently the rumor mill is cranking again and this time it’s Google that has everyone running their mouths…
We found this picture over @ theindiastreet.com and they are reporting that China’s E28 will be Google’s official manufacturer of their coveted gPhone (Now that just doesn’t look right).
I think it is a lot more possible that
E28 [...]
Compiled from AtA writers Halloween past – We bring you the top ten geeky costume awards. Sadly more than a few were worn by yours truly (no, not Cat-5 Woman).
How do you geek out? What are you going as this year?
Pop Up Blocker Man
Cat-5e Woman or for a couple Network Jack Plate Woman and Cat-6 [...]
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So its late in the afternoon and you don’t have much work going on so you are all up on the net and then BAM!
You broke the Internet for everyone. You brought down the network. You seriously flucked something up. We all know it was something you did but what was it??? You got an [...]
Happy Tuesday Morning and here you go, another oldie but goodie. If you hate copying screen shots to your clipboard only to go crop out your desktop afterwards like we used then this tip is for you…
Who wants to send their task bar layered with AOL IM windows and Random Fire Fox Browser Pages on [...]
I was a hard core Netscape user before the days of FireFox and before that I was all about IE4 . So I have realized change is good and you live and you learn. So when I heard about Flock, I decided to give it a go. For you Face-bookers. Flickr’ers and Bloggers you can [...]
The contest is still going until next Friday – so leave a comment why you should be our winner in this Roxio sponsored contest!
Your new laptop or desktop probably already came with built in software for burning CD’s and DVD’s. So why should you go out and cop the newest burning software and drop your [...]
So I got a frantic phone call yesterday from a buddy of mine who lost his PST file due to a crashed hard drive.
The thing is this guy normally backs up EVERYTHING! I was shocked he didn’t have another copy ready to go.
When I asked him why he didn’t back up his PST file regularly [...]
Hello Boys and Girls,
Commodore 64 here to bring you another horror story from binary-land. Lord knows I’ve been through hell and back with computers. Overheating CPUs, which were fixed by the cold of the winter outside my apt; crashing hard drives which were fixed or accessed by various means; faulty power supplies, which had me [...]
So there we were on the scene the other night. AtA chilling with Philips as they were showing Fuji Film’s new Z10fd cameras on their beautiful Ambilight flat panel displays. Because the new camera’s line has so many vibrant colors it was a really good fit with the Ambilight.
Why do I feel like I’m stuck [...]
We just read this and can not verify it but apparently just a day after Leopard the new Mac OS hackers have cracked it and shoved it onto a patched DvD. Below is a snippet of the article and a link to the walk through. I am not going to be in front of a [...]
We got this message from Fred early in the AM. I guess its great for him that we don’t sleep past 7AM anymore!
I am using Outlook 2007. When I get email the pictures show as Red boxes with “X”’s in them. I used to be able to right click on the boxes and [...]
Just A quick note…. Wait for it…. Wait for it….
I now have HSDPA and 3G in My house on my Dopod!
I wrote all about my HSDPA addiction over here. And it would make me sad to not have high speed mobile access like I did in Manhattan. I started wondering why Church Avenue and Downtown [...]
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Combine all this useful information into a single sidebar. No more muss and fuss opening and closing sidebars to locate that info you need. We know you need your information fix real quick like. So just click any [...]
Dilbert (Scot Adams) Can be so seriously on point sometimes:
[From the Dilbert achieve available for your perusal here.]
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Good Weekend Ladies and Gents,
It looks like we will be doing a lot more Mac tips thanks to our free iMac. This quick mac tip can save you alot of time by giving you quick access to an ultra magnifier built right into OSX. It’s done, without any prior setting changes, by holding down the [...]
We got a package in the mail yesterday with no return address. Scary?
Scary awesome!
Someone sent us a HUGE 24″ Intel iMac. That’s right we said someone because we have no idea who. That didn’t stop us from firing the bad boy up and seeing what she got.
2.13 ghz Intel processor, 2 Gigs of memory, [...]
We had a great time last night at the FujiFilm launch party with the Philips gang and we will bringing you that a little later. Don’t worry Cameras and Flat Panel TV’s oh my!
In the mean time this is a great laugh for a Friday morning. Real deal eBay auction running right now. It [...]
It’s an Admin’s worst nightmare (well one of them).
A server’s system disk is quickly running out of space for no apparent reason. You know that when the system drive fills the server is going to shut down and you’re going to have a lot of unhappy users. You need to find out what [...]
We have been busy little beavers at the AtA offices in the last few weeks, but just to bring you up to speed, Roxio will be sponsoring a contest. We will be giving away a FREE copy of Easy Media Creator 10 Suite and all you have to do is leave a comment! Go [...]
So you have the same repetitive searches you run every day? How about you let Google run the searches for you and hit you with any new sites that have popped up since your last search? This is great for almost anything!
Just go to http://www.Google.com/Alerts and sign up for an “Alert”. this is what will [...]
The contest is still going until next Friday – so leave a comment why you should be our winner in this Roxio sponsored contest!
Your new laptop or desktop probably already came with built in software for burning CD’s and DVD’s. So why should you go out and cop the newest burning software and drop your [...]
I had been using Celetask to do quick one button reboots but my trial expired and I really could not justify $7.95 just to reboot easier. User Maevro over at Howard Forums created a .cab file that adds a Reboot option to your Windows Mobile Device Quick List. Thats the one you get by [...]
There are two main email protocols POP and IMAP. They have both been around for a long time and each have their advantages. But nowadays I am really feeling IMAP and I like that I can access my email via Web-mail, Outlook or my Windows Mobile Device and See THE SAME THING!
Lets start out by [...]
Help me Admin.
I downloaded some videos my family would love to watch. My buddy showed me how to use Azerus a Bit Torrent client. I downloaded the files just like we did on his computer. They finished but the audio doesn’t work on one file and neither the video or the audio work on another.
Desperate [...]
A reader from Idaho was seriously freaked out this morning after a late night @ the computer and sent us a picture of their task manager in a strange state.
They asked for their identity to be with held so here is a screen-shot of a random person’s task manager in a similar mode.
Have you [...]
Before I start, I should probably introduce myself a little. My name’s Phil, and I run a blog at twistedethics.com, but I’ll be cross-posting all the good stuff on to here as well. By day, I’m responsible for the IT within a small company in the United Kingdom. We run a mixed-OS network, so [...]
Don’t be jealous you hater! Be happy that AtA can bring you these great give-a-ways and you might be our next winner!
We have some AMAZING things in the works so, stay tuned for more Geeky Goodness! Here is the email our grand prize winner AstroMan sent in:
Thank Crucial for sponsoring this give-a-way! You guys have [...]
Before I was into heavy registry editing the only way I knew how to Mod a computers look and feel was something called TuneUp Utilities. That is what I used back in day and never really thought about it since. Here we are in 2007 and I’m using Norton’s Tune Up program. Lets just [...]
I brought this one From Guest Blogger El Di Pablo back up for you guys to outline some of the other issues with Wi-Fi that people have been writing in about. I guess the WiFi rush came from this article on how I have grown to hate wi-fi. Hit us up in the comments if [...]
So we don’t feel AS guilty for introducing you to such ingenious super-villianesque (Yeah that’s a word) gadgets like the Annoy-o-Tron and The Ninja Remote anymore.
Why you might ask.. That’s because El Di Pablo from Bauer Power posted His Top Five Computer Pranks. Just in time to freak someone out for Halloween with some haunted [...]
Have you ever wanted to create a shortcut on your desktop to disable your screensaver or eject your cd-rom? You have seen it done and now you have some use for it? Don’t fret End User! No need to muss and fuss here is a light weight program that needs no installation: Tooler. It’s only [...]
Defragmenting is just part of the Windows landscape. We’ve been doing it since…I dunno…Bill Gates hit puberty (Really?? he did?). Its just a habit, a way of life. Old habits die hard, even when users switch from a Windows OS to a new OS like Mac OS.
So, many users who have switched from PC’s to [...]
I mentioned in a recent post that I recently aquired an older Pentium III laptop with only 384MB of RAM. It really isn’t fast enough to run Windows XP without trimming the fat.I originally was going to put Xubuntu on it, because Xubuntu is designed to be more light weight than regular Ubuntu, because [...]
So we don’t usually gush over retail household products but this is really cool and can be bought with the notion of safety in mind. You attach this doo-hickey that is battery operated and it changes the color of your water with LED’s depending on the temperature of the water. Its also only $20 [...]
I will keep this as broad as possible to help a wide range of people. If you need more specific help please leave us a comment and it WILL be answered.
So you have decided that either something inside your shinny laptop is broken and needs to be fixed or you want to upgrade something (memory, [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Every once in a while a proggy comes along that is simply a staple of your data diet. A requiem for your software library that just seems to always be useful, especially if you follow the advice and antics of The Admin here at AskTheAdmin.com.
One of the most talked about subjects [...]
Mary Ann writes to us that she misses the graphical WinIpCfg.exe that came with Windows 98 and ME. No worries Mary Ann we have got an exact replica from Microsoft’s Windows 2000 Resource Kit that will have you time traveling back to use IpConfig with the best of them!
We Do find it strange the big [...]
Wait I have two on one side and two on another…. Now If I only had a flip around book case!Muhahahahahaaha….
_TheTGIFAdmiN_
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So you have lots of DVD’s that you thought you would always love and want to keep the boxes of on your bookshelf – for everyone to see.
Yeah we know that funny feeling, peoples strange looks give you for your taste in media – but we won’t mention THOSE kind of shows now will [...]
It’s finally here! The final release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has been released today! Everyone is very excited (especially the lovely young ladies to your right). Doesn’t that make you want to try Ubuntu a little more??
They Make Upgrading From Fawn A Snap:Go to the Update Manager and it tells you of the new [...]
When I first heard about the Windows Sidebar that comes with Vista I was very excited. I thought Wowie, (yeah i say wowie and I give High-Five all the time too – What?!?) I am going to get every widget possible into my sidebar and be uber productive. I might be over exaggerating – just [...]
See a picture of our winner here!
I just wanted to tell everyone that we picked one user at random to be our Grand Prize winner for the Crucial Give-a-way. That’s right AstroMan is the big winner and will get his choice of a 2gb memory module from http://www.crucial.com. We sent him an email earlier this [...]
This just in – Breaking news – HOLY SHIT!
Apple would have been crazy to try and stop 3rd party applications forever but in a milestone announcement today, Apple says they will have a SDK out in February… And the crowd goes wild!!!! On top of that the same SDK will work with the iPod [...]
Everyone jumped on board with Wi-Fi lickety split when it came out. And hey I am one of them. It was supposed to be the technology of the future – wasn’t it??
I ran my 802.11a when it was in draft and I thought it was really cool. And around the time 802.11b came out it [...]
John wrote in that he dropped a screw into his HUGE server case as he was about to seal it up. Now who wants to take it apart again just to get that stupid little screw? It sure looks like the good fellows over at ThinkGeek are in our heads because they have a solution [...]
About a year after inception, AtA is on the fast track to gaining popularity. It seems we have broken our all time record for weekly traffic and nailed 135,000 uniques last week. Our contests have brought in a lot of new traffic and gave some of the people who have been trolling around from the [...]
Have you ever wanted to copy the path of a file located deep in your hard drive’s under belly (that you call a hard drive structure)? We are pretty sure you have one time or another, seeming that you are here at AskTheAdmin.com reading this article…
We previously covered how to copy a full error [...]
You sure can! If you find yourself mouse-less You can pull up the task manager in any Windows version 2000 or better with…
Control-Shift-Escape
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