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I’ve been doing some PHP development recently and at one point decided to use one set of code as a template for another. I thought I had everything correct on the second version of code but somehow the output just didn’t look right. After double checking the details of my code I felt stumped… I […]

I’m running Windows XP in BootCamp on my MacBook Pro and occasionally need to use Print Screen to do a screen capture. I can always connect a keyboard to get this function (since it isn’t included on the limited keyboard built into the laptop) but that won’t always work, like if I’m on a trip […]

Today I downloaded Steam by Valve for Windows XP for the first time on my freshly reformatted computer. Everything seemed to go fine until I got the error “Cannot contact the Steam Network, please try later” which was funny because both FireFox and IE were connecting to the internet just fine. I thought the issue […]

I’ve had this external Western Digital Passport drive for over a year and at some point I connected it to my Mac and formatted it. Now, whenever I try to connect it to my PC laptop running Windows XP or Vista I get a little popup that says “Installing device driver software, click here for […]

iMovie is simple, fast and it works well but there are a few little things it just wasn’t built for. Video masking, covering up passwords or blurring areas of a video is one of those gray areas and this tutorial will teach you how to get it done quickly and easily. For this tutorial you […]

I’ve been using iMovie a lot recently and working through some of the minor challenges it presents. The program is simple in some ways, but that simplicity creates limitations and confusion for tasks that might otherwise be easy… if things weren’t so streamlined. Normally when I’m going to import video into iMovie I just plug […]

Today at work I got a new laptop and had to go through all of the painful processes associated with migrating to a new machine. I installed Photoshop, Dreamweaver, the Microsoft Office Suite and configured VPN, backup software etc. etc. etc. Most of these processes are smooth, albeit a little slow and annoying. The one […]