Belkin N1 wireless router
In anticipation of finally getting broadband I bought myself the Belkin N1 wireless router: I managed to get a R 500,00 discount from Incredible Corruption since the box was opened and the manual was...
View ArticleHow to hack your Belkin router
It innocently (like many cool things) started off with the replacement of my current modem router with a Belkin N1 Vision gigabit router: I would have gone with a Airport Extreme base-station instead,...
View ArticleBelkin N1 Vision – new firmware
My Belkin N1 Vision (F5D8232uk4) gigabit router has served me well in the past, and although I would next time rather go with a Netgear or Linksys, the choice was made due to it’s gigabit ports (at the...
View ArticleBelkin – life-time warranty
My trusty gigabit Belkin N1 Vision router decided to croak two days ago. At the time of purchase (Aug’ 08) this was one of the first N-draft gigabit routers on the market and accordingly came in at a...
View ArticleBelkin N+ modem router
A little while back I had problems with my old Belkin N1 wireless router and was still amazed that despite a general lack of customer service in South Africa, Incredible Connection (of all places)...
View ArticleEasySketch – Drawing and Sketching Pad
EasySketch - Drawing and Sketching Pad Easy Sketch is a fun app for kids to sketch and play for hours while they express their creative genius – the application, available on both iPad and Android, was...
View ArticleFixing file system corruption on Synology NAS
I recently recycled my hard-drives on my Synology DS1010+ as one of the drives started to fail. Migration of the drives was easy, but I did notice that I had file-system corruption when looking at...
View ArticleChange OS X update frequency
Mountain Lion checks for updates every 7 days – this is way too long for me and a quick fix is this: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate ScheduleFrequency 1
View ArticleChainsaws from bidorbuy
At bidorbuy you can sell and buy anything – if you are looking for some mild afternoon entertainment, get your chainsaws and knives from us.
View ArticleHighveld’s 94.7 Whackhead Simpson bidorbuy prank
Whackhead Simpson pranks a bidorbuy buyer on radio.
View Articlebidorbuy – Snr. Mobile Developer (Sencha Touch / PhoneGap / HTML5 / JavaScript)
If creating blazing fast mobile HTML5 apps with Sencha Touch has been your day to day task for some time and you are interested in working for coolest eCommerce internet company in South Africa...
View ArticleHow to properly rave it at Awakefest 2013
You know you are old but young at heart, when you can remember Benny Hill and have been to raves
View ArticlePets poisoned with Two-Step in Broadacres Country Estate
It has been some time since we had pet issues in our estate. We rescued Tyson in 2009 next to Fourway’s Crossing, where he fell victim to a hit-and-run as a 4 month old stray kitten. Several expensive...
View ArticleJDK 1.7 install on OS X 10.10 Yosemite fails with wrong version number
Sun was clever enough to probably use a String-compare instead of a number-check to validate if the OS X version is greater than 10.1 and as such a JDK 1.7 install fails on OS X 10.10. There is no...
View ArticleJaybird Bluebuds X are not sweat proof
I purchased my first set of Jaybird Bluebuds X in June 2014 as the headphones were advertised with a lifetime guarantee against sweat, feature 8 hour battery life and provide a secure fit in both...
View ArticleWhy Discovery Health Vitality does not promote a healthy life style
Let’s start off with putting my frustration into context: I have been with Discovery Health for almost 20 years and during that time, I have seen a constant increase in premiums, have hardly ever...
View ArticleRazer Synapse not working on OS X Yosemite 10.10
Quite a simple solution, the latest kernel extensions are not signed and the following command will enable unsigned kernel extensions (hopefully Razer will update Synapse to be fully compatible soon):...
View ArticleWordPress, W3-Total Cache and the Cloudfront font CORS issue
If you host your blog via WordPress, you certainly would have installed the W3TC plugin. I only recently noticed that my blog configuration showed a number of errors. It started off with CORS errors as...
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