All Blog Posts Tagged 'tech' (294)

Backup And Migrate Drupal Module

Here is some irony for you all, I will be moving my new site http://www.addictedtech.co.nr to a better host and will have a .com domain, but the one thing that annoys me when transferring a site, is you have to backup and transfer files to the new server fair enough then you create a new sql database on the new server then backup the old one from the old server and import it into the new sql database on the new host. Then I would have to edit the conf… Continue

Added by Joshua Warren on December 2, 2009 at 6:28am — No Comments

AddictedTech Site Preview

I created AddictedTech due to the amount of attention technology gets these days and also due to the amount of attention my AddictedTech youtube channel… Continue

Added by Joshua Warren on December 1, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

New ACTA Leak Confirms Major Threat to Internet

The internet is under attack by our very own US Government, working on behalf of corporate interests in the entertainment and content industries. What does this mean for you?

1. You can be banned from the internet, fined and even jailed if a copyright holder ACCUSES you of wrongdoing three times. Whether you violated their copyright or not. 2. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will be forced to invest heavily in intrusive monitoring infrastructure. Guess who'll end up coveri… Continue

Added by shellyelliot on December 1, 2009 at 1:23pm — 1 Comment

GirlGeekDinner

Thursday the 26th I attended GirlGeekDinner. A guy from my work told me about the GirlGeekDinner, in short this is an event where all girls who consider themselves geeks to meetup: The GirlGeekDinner was held in Dundee, Scotland Come and join us. We hope to gather the region’s brightest female computer scientists, technologists, artists and designers, entrepreneurs and techies for good food and good company. The evening will be chilled, friendly and informal. We hope to attract students, as we… Continue

Added by Starry on November 30, 2009 at 1:57pm — No Comments

Pimp Out Safari Using Glims

I use Safari as my main web browser, with Firefox as a backup. Now I have nothing ageist Firefox at all, as a matter of fact I have it on my mac as a backup and for uploading youtube videos (the uploader crashes Safari). But, one thing I do wish Safari had is add-ons. Now, in this tutorial, I am going to be showing you how you can somewhat achieve this. I am going to be showing you who to use a program called Glims. Now, Glims is not going to give you add-ons like Firefox ha, but it will atlas o… Continue

Added by Computerwhiz1 on November 29, 2009 at 5:06pm — No Comments

Renaming Multiple Files at Once in OS X

I know we have all been there, you have a folder full of files and you need to add something after the name of each of them. This is a task that most people choose to do the hard way, by renaming each file individually. However if you want a program to rename all of the files for you, then you might have invested in some software that can do that kind of stuff. What I bet you didn't know though, is that you can do this for free on any installation of OS X. The application you will be using is ca… Continue

Added by Computerwhiz1 on November 25, 2009 at 4:47pm — No Comments

Using the Equalizer in iTunes

If you know a little bit about music, sound, or acoustics, then you probably know what an equalizer is. It is a device that allows you to adjust the different frequencies of sound. In this video, I show you how to get to, and how to use the equalizer in iTunes. So, whether you just want to make your songs sound better, or you want to make it sound a certain way just for fun, this video will show you how to do it. [NOTE: In order to get this in Full 1080p HD so you can see the screen you are goin… Continue

Added by Computerwhiz1 on November 16, 2009 at 6:08pm — No Comments

ACTA: Internet Users Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Details here: http://bytestyle.tv/node/190 Continue

Added by shellyelliot on November 12, 2009 at 5:55pm — No Comments

Secret copyright treaty threatens our internet freedom

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Added by shellyelliot on November 10, 2009 at 7:42am — 2 Comments

Translating Things for Free

Problem: you are surfing the internet and you come across a site that has the information you need, but it is in a language that you can't read. Solution: Google Translator In the video below I show you how you can take advantage of the free Google Translator, and its abilities to translate… well just about everything. You can translate text, or even enter the URL to an entire website and it will translate it all for free. Enjoy. [NOTE: In order to get this in Full 1080p HD so you can see the… Continue

Added by Computerwhiz1 on November 8, 2009 at 2:29pm — No Comments

How to Turn off UAC in Windows Vista - The Easy Way

UAC was introduced in Windows Vista, and has proven to be a bit of an annoyance to some users. Prompting many to turn the feature off, which is very easy to do. Though I personally don’t recommend it. The best way would be to click on the Start orb, click the User picture, this takes you to user accounts, click turn UAC on or off, you will be prompted if UAC is turned on. Click continue, and deselect, click ok, and you will be asked to restart now, or later. When you turn off… Continue

Added by Mike Copeland on November 6, 2009 at 12:26am — No Comments

Follow Friday on The Way Out?

For a while now Follow Friday has been a good way for people to recommend great people to follow on twitter. As a geek I use twitter for sharing information, and interest. One of the people I follow made the statement to me that "more followers isn't better, better followers is more". What I mean by better followers is that none of this spam crap, not someone who spews out senseless nonsense. I’ve used Follow Friday since June I believe, but with the introduction of Twitter Lists Follow F… Continue

Added by Mike Copeland on November 5, 2009 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

How to Download Youtube Videos

Have you ever wanted to download youtube videos to watch on your computer or ipod? Well it is a simple process that can easily be done a ton of different ways. However, for this video I am going to show you two and tell you about one. The first tool I would like to mention is KeepVid. KeepVid is a very simple website that allows you to paste in a link to a youtube video and it will give you a link to download in either .mp4 or .flv format. The next two that I am going to tell you about are MPEG… Continue

Added by Computerwhiz1 on November 1, 2009 at 5:05pm — 1 Comment

TweetDeck v0.30.5

I like many other Geeks, am on multiple social sites. Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed are just a few examples of this. I previously that I use Ping.fm to ping my status to all my social sites, however I recently changed this when TweetDeck v0.30.5 was released. It added support for Myspace and it’s moods. To be honest I prefer this do to the fact that now I don’t have to keep logging into Ping.fm’s website. I guess you could say that I find this version of TweetDec… Continue

Added by Mike Copeland on October 28, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments

Can Open Source Bring Transparency to the Whitehouse?

From http://bytestyle.tv/node/179 Continue

Added by shellyelliot on October 26, 2009 at 1:02pm — 2 Comments

View Fonts Installed on Your Mac

If you are like me then sometimes it is hard to fins a font that you like. Well, did you know that there is a built in application on your Mac that can help you with this? Font Book is the name. and viewing fonts is the game. Font Book will easily allow you to see all the fonts that you have installed on your computer. It will also allow you to print out a catalog of all the fonts on your computer if you would like. So, without further ado watch the video below to find out who to use this nifty… Continue

Added by Computerwhiz1 on October 25, 2009 at 6:24pm — No Comments

Books Today

I am on the last chapter of Emperor the gates of rome(six hundred and twenty four pages long) so it's not for the feint hearted , It took me a week to get this far and it was a reasonbly enjoyable experience however if your not a fan of the swords and sandals genre I don't reccomend it to you due to the fact that it is very loyal to it's predeccesors of which all of whom are devoted to the style and theme. The Gates of rome is the first book in Conn Igullden's Emperor series of which there are f… Continue

Added by Joolsy on October 20, 2009 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Use Screen Saver as Background in OS X

If you have not heard a windows vista machine is able to run a screen saver as the desktop background. Well up until now that has been one small thing that the PC enthusiasts were able to get me on. But now I have screen saver. Screen Saver is a nifty little dashboard widget that will allow you to run an OS X screen saver as your desktop background. Watch the video embedded below to find out who to get and use this neat little pice of freeware. [NOTE: In order to get this in Full 1080p HD so you… Continue

Added by Computerwhiz1 on October 19, 2009 at 4:49pm — 1 Comment

Tech support.

I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center. One day I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center was open. I told him, 'The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.' He responded, 'Is that Eastern or Pacific time?' Wanting to end the call quickly, I said, 'Uh, Pacific.' Continue

Added by Mercuryblues78 on October 17, 2009 at 6:32pm — 3 Comments

My first blog post... [Part 1] - Introduction

I've been really thinking about starting a blog, talking about something interesting, sharing cool facts and news. I'm not sure what exactly to write it about, but for now I'll just create a test blog, just to see if I can actually finish and make people interested in it. So you can consider this as 'random gibberish' for now. But anyway, enjoy. Well I guess these kinds of things (when first timers) start off with a introduction of who the person blogging is. As an experiment I'm not going to… Continue

Added by Ergo on October 17, 2009 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments