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iPhone: How to display battery percentage remaining
Ever wonder why you have to guess how much juice is left in your battery by looking at the little battery icon on your iPhone. Ever say to yourself “why wouldn’t they just put the battery percent remaining on the iPhone??” Well, it turns out they did put it there you just need to know…
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How to install VMware VSphere ESXi 4 on a desktop PC
Trying to figure out how to install VMWare Vsphere ESXi 4.0 on a home desktop computer but now sure how? Neither was I but I finally figured it out and I’ll tell you how! Over the last year, I’ve been getting very involved in VMware ESX installations and rollouts at work. It started with doing…
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How to add HP SFF SAS Drives to your desktop pc
I recently acquired some HP Small Form Factor (SFF) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hot swap hard drives from work. We use them for data storage on high end servers because they are lightening fast and the hot swap capability allows you to pull a bad drive and replace it without turning off the server. These…
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iPhone – How to delete one thing at a time
When I got my first iPhone, one annoyance to me was that in order to delete a single email or voicemail, etc. I had to tap the Edit button then select the item then tap Delete. Why on Earth should it take three steps to delete a single email from my iPhone? Well, it doesn’t!…
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Gigabit connection not working on Dell Dimension 9200 (XPS 410)
I’ve had my Dell Dimension 9200 (also known as the XPS 410) for a few years now and have been connected to a Netgear WGR614 router which has a maximum wired speed of 100mb. As I have been acquiring a lot of wireless N equipped devices, I decided to upgrade my router to the Netgear WNDR3700…
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iPhone 3g Home Button Fixed – Kudos to Apple
About a month ago I noticed that the Home button was getting less and less responsive. The problem was intermittent, but it was getting more and more frequent. I would sometimes have to hit the Home button two or three times before it would register. A friend told me that he thought that the issue…
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How do I take a screen shot or picture of my iPhone screen?
While trying to explain to distant friends how to do something on their iPhones or to show them what an application looks like, I always wished there was a way to take a picture or screen capture of my iPhone screen and send it to them. Normally if I was on a computer I would just hit…
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How to beat Tap Defense on the iPhone
While there are different strategies for different maps, the one strategy that I’ve found to work regardless is you must manage your gold early in the game and raise your interest rates so that you’ll have enough gold in the later levels to buy upgraded towers. – My Tap Defense strategy is pretty simple. Use…
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You Really Can Do Anything You Want To
Yes, I know that you really can do anything that you decide you truly want to. I can honestly say that I have been able to achieve everything I ever truly wanted to. That’s not to say that I don’t have regrets or things that I wish I had done that I didn’t. But I…