Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Modemintel.com is a new website I made in the last couple of days. It's nothing fancy, just a simple design to a lot of data. At first I wanted to write a blogpost about a list of default modem and router passwords but it was just too much for just ...
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
You can never have enough screen space, especially when you are a multi-tasking addict like me. I have been using dual screen setups for years now and i'm not alone. A lot of people use two, three or even more monitors at work and at home. Thing is, in all ...
Posted in Hardware, Video, Web | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Last week I bought the Western Digital WD TV HD with a WD My Book Home Edition (1TB) external USB harddisk. I must say this truly is a wonderfull combination for me. It plays every media file I threw at it, even those encoded with insane bitrates. The number of ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
In this article I will explain how to setup a NewCS cardsharing server on windows. I will use it to share my dutch Digitenne /KPN smartcard on my home network. This DVB-T system uses conax encryption but this method will work for all kinds of encrypted cards on different DVB ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Both Hulu and BBC's iPlayer are popular video services where you can watch all your favourite TV-shows. But if you're not from the United States (Hulu) or the United Kingdom (iPlayer) it can be very difficult to watch anything because both services will block you. They check your IP address ...
Posted in Hardware, Video, Web, music | 38 Comments »
Monday, January 12th, 2009
It's a question people ask me a lot and I often read it on different forums, "How to download online video's?" This can be from youtube or any other webpage with video in it. Well if your using Firefox, it is very easy. The only thing you have to do ...
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
When Microsoft announced the 120GB addon for the 360, we were all quite happy. Then we heard how much it was going to cost. I believe at product launch, the drive cost about $200. Absolutely absurd…even at today’s MSRP of $160, it’s still unreal.
After talking to a few friends and ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Despite how it sounds, the MAC address has nothing to do with Apple, Macs, or Macintoshes.
A MAC address is just a series of numbers and letters that identifies your Network Interface Card (NIC), which you are probably using to connect to the Internet.There are several programs out there that let ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
BIOS Beep Codes
When a computer is first turned on, or rebooted, its BIOS performs a power-on self test (POST) to test the system’s hardware, checking to make sure that all of the system’s hardware components are working properly. Under normal circumstances, the POST will display an error message; however, if ...
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