Archive for November, 2007
So we have been spoiled for a while now in the Infiniti FX35 and all its bluetooth and geeky goodness. But before that we were getting around in a Jaguar X-type sans bluetooth (worst car ever!) and this little doo-dad from Parrot would have turned our ride into bluetooth heaven.
This guy lets you use you [...]
Lets take a quick break from technology for a chuckle. A bunch of Retards (edit: don’t bite my head off thats literally what they call themselves -Retard Media) posted a spoof on The Admin here. Mind you it was a few months ago.
I saw this and my first instinct was to throw down goto this [...]
I don’t know how useful this actually is but I thought I would share it with you guys anyway. You seem to like useless information… Right?? This one kind of threw me for a loop. I was watching a junior admin install Windows XP from a CD and he turned to me and said Want [...]
This was sent in by one of AtA’s faithful readers, Dan. We all know an Admins job is never done and time is a commodity but Dan was nice enough to send us this review. 600 bucks seems to go a lot further than it used to laptop wise. If your willing to look into [...]
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA.
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Here’s the scenario….
Backed up info off old laptop to external HD.
During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!!
You know where this is going [...]
Fat Joe from PA writes to us.
Dude I just copped a stupid expensive phone from ATT (Tilt pda like thing). I had it 20 minutes and went to take a leak. While I was doing my thing it rang in my hand (the other hand). It kinda scared me and I dropped it into a [...]
So we got a set of headphones to demo and review over at AtA headquaters. My iPhone has been on hiatus as I rock out to my hsdpa on my Dopod.
My Dopod schitzed out yesterday and defaulted to chinese… No problem. Settings, 7 and 2 and choose English. But where are my email accounts?
Arrg so [...]
We Swore off touch screens a while back but this SCH-I760 is a real pleasure. Everything we have been getting to review recently has been really cool! I don’t know if its just in a good mood or the lack of sleep but this Samsung Windows Mobile 6 Pro with slide out keyboard is sweet.
We [...]
All of the sudden, XP will not communicate with the printer. Or any printer for that matter! I can see that there are a bunch of print jobs in the queue. When I try to cancel the print jobs, nothing happens. I’m stuck and need to print. HELP!
OK lets not freak out and [...]
This is not a joke, I repeat, this is serious business! I found this while surfing around on Digg, and thought this was one of the most interesting “features” I have ever seen.
According to Microsoft’s Support website, if your computer starts playing classical music such as “Fur Elise”, or even more modern hits like [...]
I’ll keep this short and sweet. If you’re re-installing your OS, and need to know the motherboard model number, to grab the drivers online, check out CPU-Z. It beats opening your PC case and trying to find that tiny number hidden amongst the cables and drives .
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John from Maryland writes in:
Admin dudes can you help me disable Aero effects from my vista install? I am bored with them and I assume they use gobs of my memory. Hook me up!
We have limited resources while we are on the road but here is the answer as told by the guys from Port16.com. [...]
I have been using Digg.com for quite a while now, and have only recently begun to understand how it is that Digg really works. So many times I have submitted a blog post from Bauer-Power, only to get one or two diggs, then have it fall off into oblivion.
It was only recently that I discovered [...]
We just caught The Whole Movie a glimpse of the new Futurama movie called Bender’s Big Score. This is an hour and a half of pure futuristic geeky delight. Our pre-order has been in with Amazon for months but as of now it is all over the inter-webs. I just thought you guys would want [...]
Hi boys and girls,
Do you remember when Ask The Admin covered a very interesting topic of Free Exchange services? For those who don’t, you can look here, here and sometimes here.
In a nutshell, this article talked about how me and my fiance’ had to plan our wedding and had tons of appointments flying in from [...]
All that little Georgie, from BeingFive.com, heard was that The Admin is a Microsoft Certified Admin taking questions. He wants to know if we have ever met Bill Gates.
Yes we have meet Bill Gates and In all fairness we do say we answer ANY technical related questions. So our answer would have to be [...]
How can i get more traffic to my blog-site? What attracts readers to a blog? Will you look at my site Mr. Admin?
This one I’ll field myself right off the bat because I have tried everything, and I mean everything. I have stayed up late nights and worked on traffic, and only traffic, for days [...]
So there you are at Starbucks sipping on your latte, and surfing on their incredibly high priced wi-fi with your brand new Alienware laptop thinking to yourself, “Self! This is a mighty good latte!”.A few minutes later, you slip into a latte induced coma (Work with me here.)
After about an hour or two you [...]
Mozilla released Beta 1 of Firefox 3.0 a few days ago, so I thought it was about time I tried out the latest and greatest from the guys at Mozilla. Grab it here if you haven’t yet, but be warned, it’s only meant for testing, and shouldn’t be used if you require a stable browser.
I’ve [...]
We wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all our loyal readers (and those just passing by) from the whole AtA family. We are about to hit the 600 reader mark – meaning we gained another 100 readers in the last month… Nice! Our traffic and email volume has also increased AGAIN – thanks for the [...]
Adam Pash covered this tiny app on this wonderful Thanksgiving morning. It is called resizeenable and it lets you resize system windows that you normally could not. You guys always seem to find what I am looking for before I’m looking for it! Thanks LifeHacker…
Some of you may wonder why we are so anal-retentive that [...]
It’s very annoying and counter productive for your hands to leave the keyboard as you use your mouse to click, click, clickity click click away at something. Join the ranks of power users to add keyboard shortcuts for every computer task you do. Yup Any Task!
Built into Windows is the ability to let you assign [...]
This is definitely a sweet looking PC.
Dell One
This is the way a home desktop PC should look.
It’s a little pricey, but it is in line, price wise, as the iMacs and the other Windows based all-in- ones that have hit the market.Edit by the AdmiN: Hey I know, I know we used the word sexy [...]
Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is your friendly Commodore 64 here to report on yet another useful, tech-improving, free service that is bound to improve any nerd’s life fo sho.
This new service, which has solved a long standing problem, in my view, with send/receive, hates attachments, crappy, slow, sluggish, snap-crackle, pop3 email technology. The software [...]
Hey everyone, it’s Scott from AndroidGuys here. Thanks to Karl and the other Admins here, I’m back with another article!
Yesterday, we put an article up on AndroidGuys where we talked about Google’s foray into the television world. I’d like to expound upon that piece and explain how open source could radically change the [...]
Reader Joanne wrote to us that she moved her Word document off the screen so she can only see the bottom half of it. She didn’t save it and can not move or close it. We have all done this before, moving windows around willey nilley to see whats behind it or just for fun [...]
This question made me go “huh?”
Then I thought about it a little and found a FireFox extension that does just that!
Yeah we know that you don’t have time to read ALL the Blogs that you want to! At last check my RSS reader had over 300 feeds. We found a little FireFox extension that made [...]
How does hundreds of tera-bits per second, over traditional fiber optic cable sound to you?
Did I stutter?
…Didn’t think so!
That’s less than a 1 second download for a full DVD. And just by adding some magic lasers to help along our current Fiber Optic cabling? I’m sure there is more to it than that, but [...]
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now?
Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post – not [...]
CES is one of AtA’s favorite events of the year. Michael Meyer and Karl Gechlik ventured out to the NYC Press Preview and our RFID badges arrived at AtA headquarters yesterday. It’s printed RFID which is very cool and warrants a whole other post. But in the mean time here is a a [...]
I have this user who just got upgraded to a new laptop. When he logged in for the first time and opened Outlook, he was in for a shock. The fonts were extremely small (Apparently he is as blind as a bat, and likes larger fonts). Anyway, he called me to fix it.
If you run [...]
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They say necessity is the mother of all inventions, except for the bastard children of people looking to be lazy and productive.
Tinyurl has been around for a long whiles now and many of you probably use it on a daily basis and don’t even know it. Websites use it to hide links, people use [...]
I can’t give you X-Ray vision. I can’t even explain this picture on the left (Freaky Ain’t It??). But I do have an answer to seeing through one window to another.
If you are like us then you are constantly checking documents and switching between windows. You need to see your data and write your articles [...]
Don’t you just hate those Four Oh Four errors? This page can not be displayed…
We wont judge you. Whether it be porn or work related. For good or evil…
The page used to be there. But where did it go? Who cares – We are going to show you how to bring it [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Shhh, this one is a little secret for all you hardcore aTa fans…
We here at www.asktheadmin.com have an inside scoop that is sure to be the talk of the (virtual) town about Google and their new Gphone.
We all know it’s reality that Google is, in fact, working on their own phone. It’s [...]
Good afternoon! My name is Scott Webster and I am one of the administrators over at AndroidGuys.com. I’d like to thank Karl for letting me fill in today as a guest blogger.
I’m here to talk briefly about the current state of Smartphones as well as what we might come to expect from Android and [...]
The Admin and Commodore 64 attended the CES International 2008 Press Preview last night. We were on a mission to find new gizmos and gadgets for our upcoming post
“It’s A Geeky Christmas! What to get the geek in your life for the holidays.”We searched high and low (mostly near the fancy finger foods and [...]
In the old days, when hard drives first came out, the discrepancy between advertised amount of storage and what you get was minuscule. Nobody really noticed that because of a technical disparity, a 1 gb drive (which back than was HUGE) only had a disparity of a relatively small amount of mb. These days [...]
What’s that you haven’t heard of Android? Well lets just say it might give Windows Mobile a run for their money!
Here is the introduction video of The Android phone OS by Google. Presented by co-founder and President of Technology, Sergey Brin, and followed with brief explanation by Steve Horowitz, Google Engineering Director
Check out this YouTube [...]
Following on from Part 1, where I shared some useful keyboard shortcuts for general Windows usage, Part 2 covers useful shortcuts for working with Files and Text.
Working with Files and Text
F2Rename the highlighted file in Explorer. Edits a Cell in Excel / OpenOffice Calc.
Alt + EnterView properties of the selected item. Works in Explorer, but [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
Throughout history, science has dissected the inner working of every race of man. We’ve disassembled soldiers, warriors, policemen, firemen, ninjas, samurais, and thanks to shows like Discovery’s “Dirty Jobs”, we’ve gotten an intimate look at their day to day. But what about the inner mind workings of today’s Nerd? We are today’s [...]
So you have an OVERZEALOUS ADMIN WHO LIKES USING CAPS LOCK? How About Someone That Capitalizes Every Word In A Sentence? Does That Bother You? Need To Change ALL CAPS to all lowercase? Don’t retype it use this quick key combo ala life hacker [via Zeigen]:
Go ahead select some text in any app that uses [...]
Do you know you can use your Windows Mobile Phone as a pseudo modem? The best part of all is that you get the same speeds your device gets – HSDPA or 3G! I am away from home for a bit and I have no other internet connection this has made my life so much [...]
HELL YEAH YOU CAN!
Don’t think for a second our favorite monopoly would ever let the competition hone in on unhappy upgraders! We have heard this question many times in one form or another since Vista’s birth – and it usually involves people mentioning torrents and key gens. STOP right there and don’t go that route.
Seriously [...]
I have been meaning to write about my upgrade to my recent dd-wrt router firmware. It added all sorts of geeky goodness normally only available on dumb expensive routers of the Cisco or other high end routers. Time is a commodity I just don’t have and El Di Pablo a regular AtA guest blogger and [...]
Like most IT Professionals, I use a whole array of keyboard shortcuts to speed up my working throughout the day. In this two-part series, I’ll share some of the more useful ones with you.
In this post – Part 1 – I’m going to cover shortcuts that I use when generally working with, and troubleshooting, Windows. [...]
24 done as if it was 1994 technology. Check out this video of the un-aired 90’s pilot of 24.
Enjoy!
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Microsoft allows you to run Windows Server 2008 as a trial for 30 days to get the feel of it just like Vista. If you have gotten caught out there and went past the 30 days you realize you can’t get at your stuff. You are in reduced functionality mode – and thats just not [...]
We came across this Firefox extension that should treat you right. It adds a full featured FTP client to a tab within the Fox. Check it live from their website:
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides [...]
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