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Continue reading →: Reducing Streaming Video Quality (Netflix and Hulu)
A few weeks ago I adjusted our Netflix Instant Watch streaming quality to the medium setting. My ISP doesn’t have a data cap, at least not yet, but I figured it might not hurt to conserve bandwidth. Today I logged in and changed it to the lowest quality setting. It’s…
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Continue reading →: An Error Occurred Loading This Content (Apple TV – Second Generation)
The Short Version: The most effective work-around I’ve found is to simply unplug the device and then plug it back in (to reboot it). After that it works. I hate this error. It’s a sign that the Apple TV (Second Generation) has failed in its most basic task – to…
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Continue reading →: Blast From The Past: Phoenix Chat
This image isn’t a joke but actually represents an old project I worked on, before IP-based chat programs were a dime-a-dozen. A long time ago I once dabbled in Visual Basic programming. This was not a finished project, but it did work. I remember that the Microsoft Agents spoke the…
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Continue reading →: Blast From The Past: This Is Not The Page You’re Looking For
Here’s a little joke I came up with some time back in 2003. It’s a fake HTTP 404 error page with a Star Wars theme:
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Continue reading →: Blast From The Past: No Error Occurred
I thought this was worth posting. It’s an error message I once received in a version of Dreamweaver for Windows. I don’t remember what generated it, but it was something benign.
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Continue reading →: Owning an iRobot Roomba 415 (Discovery)
Updated 04/11/2012: I’ve reversed my opinion on using the Roomba on wood floors, especially in an old home. Lately I started to notice that the finish of the floors in all rooms no longer appears as thick and shiny as it did when we first moved into the house. This…
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Continue reading →: Monoprice 4×1 HDMI Switch (HDX-401E)
A couple of months ago, after my 4×2 switch died, I purchased a Monoprice 4×1 HDMI Switch (HDX-401E) with the intention of using it temporarily, until the 4×2 switch had been repaired. Instead of just buying another 4×2 switch to begin with, I purchased this one hoping to save some…
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Continue reading →: Upgrading an ASUS EeeBox PC EB1006 Hard Drive (and Copying Partitions)
I still had about 70 GBs of free space on the ASUS. However, I needed more free space to add movies, or more likely, add my wife’s music to its iTunes library. Rather then spend money on a new hard drive this month I decided to re-purpose an external, portable…
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Continue reading →: How to Backup WordPress.com Blog Images Using SiteSucker (OS X)
In the past, when I moved blogs to different platforms, I lost blog photos because I didn’t make an effort to back them up or transfer them. Today, I decided to establish a process for grabbing all of the images that I use in this blog, just in case I…
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I’m Mike
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