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I’m introducing a new section for chaotic tech today. It’s the screencast section.
Screencasts are like little screenshot videos that demo something on a computer. Therefore, this new section will have videos I have recorded there for everyone to watch.
To visit the section, simply click on the “Video” page on the page navigation. For you feed readers out there, I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but you’ll have to step out of your reader to visit it.
To start off, I’ve got four screencasts already up, and the list is growing. I make new screencasts whenever I have time. So far, you can check out Windows 7, BumpTop, how to set up remote access, and more videos at the convenient page.
Thanks for reading chaotic tech, and I hope you will enjoy the new section.
Introducing sleekify. A computing experience where you and your computer are both elegant and beautiful; modern and simple. No more hideous junk, but pure design. That is the power of sleekify.
Today I introduce a multi-part series in how to beautify, simplify, and amazify (that isn’t even a word) your computer. I am a minimalist person, and this guide will show you how you can blend beauty with function.
This guide was written on and made for Windows. If you are running a Mac, unfortunately I cannot help you. Most people using Macs think they are sleek enough already… 
Many of the tips I use can only be found / used on Windows Vista. If that is the case, you can just skip the tip.
But no more of the jabber and junk. It’s time to sleekify.
In this episode: Invisible Icons
Note: This guide is not only for uTorrent, as you most certainly can apply it to use in other BitTorrent clients. This guide, however, is written primarily for uTorrent.
If you are new to the torrent world, you may soon realize that all your dreams of sharing files and living life the P2P way fail once you look at the speed of your downloads: 0.3 KBps.
For me, when I saw that, I was ready to dump torrents. Why would one want to use it when there were so many other ways to download? Clicking on an .exe file, downloading it, even through Internet Explorer, was way faster!
But now, if you were like me, you need not suffer anymore. With these tricks, you’ll soon be cruising along at half a megabyte per second no sweat! read more…
Special Feature: The other weekend, I decided to embark on a project which I had annoyingly titled Project Reinstall (to the eternal annoyance of my parents), where I would be formatting, reinstalling, and setting up some of the computers I have.
In our home, we have four operational computers, and three that have parts stolen from them. Three of them are in the computer room upstairs, where the router is situated.
Inside that room, we have a Powerspec 7114 running as my main system (with upgraded graphic card), a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop with 712 MB memory, running XP, and an old Gateway system we bought at an auction for $50 dollars. It runs Windows 2000.
The fourth computer is downstairs in the master bedroom, which we have hooked up to the Internet by a Linksys PowerLine Internet system that guarantees slow Internet speed.
I love Pandora: I love the stations I have made, how it tunes itself perfectly to my interests, how I can rank songs I like and songs I don’t like, how on Pandora, I have the perfect station that I love listening to; the station that always plays the songs I like.
It didn’t come easy; I have listened to Pandora at least 100 hours (I think), or for a more exact one, I’ve been using Pandora for over a year and a half. But something else is always bugging at my mind.
None of my friends use Pandora, though, no matter how many times I urge them. I didn’t understand this. I looked up the songs they liked, I created stations for them to see if the songs they liked were on it, but still, they don’t use Pandora.
So, hopefully this will make up for the absence of blog posts on chaotic tech. I apologize for not writing on this blog (I’ve been busy working on the transition on my literature blog to a new domain name), and this is probably not enough, but many people don’t understand the real importance of Pandora.
Del.icio.us is famous for their bookmarking service. But you can use it for something other than bookmarking: a profile page.
The concept is extremely easy to understand. So today I will show you how to make such a main profile page where everyone can visit it and see your different profiles for free with Del.icio.us and CO.CC.
When you are done with this productivity project, you will have a address like this: myprofilepage.co.cc or something like that.
I hate false advertising. I really do. I think it is basically duping the customer, tricking the customer out of their money. Although most of the time I am lucky enough to avoid being “the customer”, I knew I would be “the customer” soon enough.
The problem I have concerns the “Vista Capable” sticker on my computer. Supposedly this means that I am able to install Vista without a hitch, even if it is slow afterward. There has been a very large amount of controversy on this before and after Vista was released. read more…
A few days ago, my trusty four-year-old laptop unexpectedly gave out on me and wouldn’t charge from my only AC adapter. The power drained to 79% before I desperately turned it off, fearing a dead computer forever.
Thankfully, I had a not-so-happy session with Dell’s technical support, and it ended up with me buying a totally expensive AC adapter for $40 dollars— refurbished.
Well, a few days later (today), the package has arrived, and I have promised readers to offer a review on how the refurbished adapter does.
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