By Ian Lee on May 19, 2009 in Software | 14 Comments
Twitter is a fun and productive tool that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates. This free social networking service has grown so exponentially that, unfortunately, it is often times plagued with bugs and server time outs - frustrating to say the least. The latest bug that is tormenting Twitter users worldwide [...]
By Ian Lee on Mar 3, 2009 in iPhone | 2 Comments
After a few hours of testing (& hair pulling), I was finally able to use an iPhone to view YouTube videos on a Wi-Fi connection without the dreaded buffering problem. For those who are also suffering from slow YouTube connections on your iPhones over Wi-Fi, here is a fix.
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By Ian Lee on Feb 25, 2009 in iPhone | 1 Comment
There seems to be a glitch on the iPhone 3G when it comes to deleting emails. Through one of my IMAP accounts, when I try to delete an email, I consistently get the error “Unable to Move Message”. When the email account was setup on the iPhone, it was already selected to move deleted emails [...]
By Ian Lee on Feb 23, 2009 in iPhone | 4 Comments
As of yesterday, no YouTube videos could be played on my iPhone through the built-in YouTube App. As we recently modified settings on the router in our office, we thought it was something on our end. Sure enough, no router adjustment could resolve the issue. We continuously get the “This video could not be played” [...]
By Ian Lee on Feb 19, 2009 in Software | 3 Comments
For those of you using VirtualBox to run other operating systems on your computer, do not update to versions 2.1.4 or 2.1.2 yet. Don’t get me wrong, VirtualBox is a powerful and easy-to-use virtualization program; one that I could not live without. However, in my own experience of running XP Pro as the guest OS [...]
By Ian Lee on Feb 5, 2009 in Software, Technology | 2 Comments
Google has been rolling out feature-rich and very useful apps for the past few years. They have even worked out a way for users to easily consolidate multiple accounts. This fix appeared shortly after my first post when I was utterly confused by Google’s first attempt to consolidate accounts. So it is with high hopes [...]
By Ian Lee on Jan 23, 2009 in Hardware, Software | 0 Comments
Over the many years of using a computer, I have tried many tweaks to try and make a PC run faster. Although there is lots of published information about tweaking Vista, I have not found one that utilizes a battery to speed up your computer. The discovery of this not-so-obvious solution truly made a difference [...]
By Ian Lee on Dec 9, 2008 in Technology | 7 Comments
Has anyone else experienced problems logging into Google services lately? Periodically, we have not been able to to access gmail, Google Sites, Google Apps for Business, AdSense, Google Calendar or even Google.com. All of which are great tools but lately when we try to access them, things just time out and other times, it is [...]
By Ian Lee on Nov 25, 2008 in Technology, Web Server Setup | 3 Comments
Have you ever wondered what makes the ultimate data center? From a business perspective, the main objective for choosing the right data center is to minimize downtime of its servers. The decision to choose a data center is a critical step and deserves much more consideration than just finding the lowest cost option. As technology [...]
By Ian Lee on Nov 19, 2008 in Software, Technology | 5 Comments
If you are like millions of internet users out there, then you will agree that your web browser’s bookmark is probably less useful than it had been in the past. In reality, we bookmark more than we can ever use and more often than not, we never go back to old bookmarked pages. So what [...]
By Ian Lee on Nov 17, 2008 in Business, Hardware | 19 Comments
In the past month, I personally experienced two instances where used merchandise was sold as new without disclosure. The first time, it was with a brand new Dell Vostro desktop where the hard drive turned out to have been already used for 15,000+ hours! The second time, A-Power.com sold us a used hard drive telling [...]
By Ian Lee on Nov 13, 2008 in Software, Technology | 0 Comments
Since Google is forcing a migration of all Feedburner accounts over to Google accounts be sure to update all your feed services including places like twitter, facebook, blogs, feed readers, itunes podcast accounts and anything else that you have associated with your Feedburner feeds! With all their technology, I am surprised (and disappointed) that Google [...]