Tech Tips and Reviews
Logged into my ups account and checked tracking. They left the dang thing on the front porch. A $400 phone left on the porch. Really?
Oh well had family at home to bring it in for me. So I called.
Good thing, after the scare I had last night with my Blackberry 8100 (lol just look at last night’s post.) I have two phones in my pocket. Only one has the sim card, the other is ready and waiting for just in case the BB8100 craps out on me.
I have no idea what to expect of the phone.
I myself do not have the funds to be an early adapter. I find this convenient because by the time I purchase the cool stuff, it is already on the second edition, all of the bugs are worked out, and tons of people have tweaked and modded it to make so much more use of said products.
So here we are on my fifth month using a Blackberry 8100.
Moving up from my Motorolla Rizr to the bb was a huge step up. I didn’t actually need to install opera mini on it but i did it anyway. Everyone had millions of applications to use on the device. Applications that where out from “mod my moto” that actually worked 100 times better on the blackberry version. Opera mini actually worked better on the blackberry, but I got a better advantage from the moto though.. moto browser just sucked bad.
I had issues with the firmware though. As I tried to install themes, my Blackberry started crashing a whole lot. I mean I was getting lock ups all the time already, but it got really bad when I downloaded themes and activated them. so I hobbled over to the Forums at blackberryforums.com and found a thread about upgrading blackberry firmware . Great thread . Leads you to the actual firmware . See it seems the firmware we have in the united states that is on the blackberry website, or in the u.s. is like version 1.? (that is one point something or other). The version on the Asian server is like version 4.0 something or other. It’s crazy how it works. It actually took me off what the heck ever network I was on and put me on the edge network. oh just for a heads up. the people at Tmobile informed me that if you see a lowercase “edge” in the signal area, you have a crappier signal than if you see it all caps.
I got locked out of my blackberry after a theme install
Techy Tools use that to sync up with your Blackberry.
Ok while I am writing this. I kind of had to throw out some links I thought you may want while I goof around and try the newest version of the firmware. So.. there’s the links. Right now while I am typing this, I am 5 minutes into the upgrade
screenshot of the actual install
and crossing my toes and keeping the page on “previous versions” hot in my clipboard and the page open. in case it all goes wacky on me. Also I might look around and see if people have a specific choice of versions. maybe I will see why and try them all. I have just hours before my g1 shows up in the mail, I will use that one for a week or so and then sell it on ebay or what ever at barely used price. I will check it out just to review, but I really love my blackberry and all of the tweaks out there for it. from browser to notepad.
Er crap.
Just got a bad error saying that some junk had to be saved as a back up and I should reload and restore. i think my cat jumped on it and wiggled it loose before the install was complete. Ok freak out time. 1 am and I have to work tomorrow. So now I am doing it all again, but not selecting the “back up” feature. I already have a back up of everything still in good. I don’t want it to back up the crap version, over the full version.
Ok crap just got the notice again.. This time I copied so i could paste it here for everyone to see.
A fatal error has occurred while updating your device’s software. Please try again.
Device communications error encountered. [A:0x00000025]
Yeah this isn’t good. so.. I go off and try and fix this.. meanwhile I se a black screen and blinking LED.
Erm.. Uh oh.. Now the program does not detect anything on the end of the usb cable.. did I mention the “uh oh” part?
Battery pull time… lol the action of a desperate man.
Dang… Blinking light… now I run back to the forums!!!!!
Ok that was scary. computer wouldn’t identify the usb device (my fricken phone) so none of the software would work.. I left the update program open at first page disconnected the phone, yanked out the battery and waited a second or so, plugged back in and bam… windows identified it. I am updating now :-)
Erm
Error 507 a circle a square a triangle with a circle around them all and line through the circle.. so I disconnect reconnect and rerun program
Newp No good.
Life saving post here wipe it and reinstall cross fingers and hope for the best
1. Monetary status is not a mark of an I.Q., Money does not make a man wiser. Example, there is one job that everyone says is the big money maker. not the biggest but the most known.. a doctor. ok.. What do you call a doctor who graduates worst in his class and with the most errors but passes just enough to pass???? well you call him doctor… of course.. what do you call the doctor who cheated most of the year off a classmate’ss stuff? yes you guessed it again, Doctor… see you get it..
2. If you are pro choice, then you need to be pro life for the entire life time of everyone.
3. If someone disagrees with you and points out the flaws and errors in what you say and shows you the truth and proof. don’t call them fear mongers. That’s worse than calling someone who is protecting your rights a redneck.
I have to say , ” My hat is off to ijji.com” These people took some game engines from I have no idea where and made new games. Or they made their own games from complete scrap. But what ever the deal is, they made them good, they made them free. They even have done extensive measures to reduce the cheaters.
IJJI.COM Has a huge set of games. I’m not fond of the racing one. It seems kinda like an old 80s arcade game, always eating and wanting more quarters. all of their games you can add money to your accounts and get more stuff, kinda like the games on myspace. It’s great to not pay for anything and be able to slaughter the people who spent tons on the extra equipment. On another note, to have the ability to slaughter them people without buying, but go ahead and buy anyway because you just have to see what it does, must be natural because I really want to try everything. I know, you might not have an idea what i am rambling about, no worries.. You will soon. Very soon.
My favorite IJJI game is
Soldier front Fast paced Capture the flag type games in a small area so the battles can go nuts and be loud almost seem chaotic at first. Once you settle into the game, it is so addictive you get 8 hours consumed and not ever notice.
Another game like soldier front is called
A.V.A. Extreme graphics on a free game
Man you can crank the graphics up really well on this one, be sure and check the “manual” check dot. If you do not have at least 2 g processor and an nvidia 9 card with 2 gigs mem, I would not suggest you crank anything up. By all gaming means these days, those are low low low specifications. from what I see, the better settings they have are at 720p. it may go higher but I didn’t push a whole lot of my Rig.
AVA screenshot
The fire looks crappy, will remind you of grand theft auto III, with a crappy gif looking flame in the middle of it.
Now a good game that will remind you of doom and quake
Gunz just not enough people on it. looks a bit like anime . If you have a network of computers at your house and a bunch of friends over to play a game, this one is perfect for that. because it is a great game, but not enough players for anything fun to happen of it. Not to be played alone.
Ok for the nvidia
Warmonger These guys need to take a tip from ijji and clean and lean up the game a tad bit. a bit to taxing for a freebee.
Then there is Huxley.
This game is the game to make halo look like pacman, to make grand theft auto play like doom1.
The in game looks like cutscenes from starcraft II. if you know anything about stracraft cinema , you know there is major extreme detail in their characters and images. The terrain looks amazing.The skin has pores, the hairs are all single images and dimensions, instead of one blob with hair drawn in. IJJI has out done everything there is to play. and the fricken game is free.
Kills me that while I was in my game testing phase, the game was still in beta. and I only have videos to go by. The smoke looks like smoke, the explosions are unruly real explosions.
These have to be the best of the best free first person video games. The internet needs more of these.
If you know any video games that are totally free and legal to download, please leave some information here in a response
Seems I am the only person who get this information out, because I did not update every single wordpress script on all of my websites.. This one is the one to get the message out. I have not yet found the solution to akismet crashing my rss feeds on all of my sites but this post is my original post about akismet being down and not working well with wordpress 2.8.5.
Maybe I am totally wrong and someone knows the fix for my issue. If so please post it on the site, in case someone else thinks the same as myself.
So much writing has gone to waste over the past 4 days.
I watch tons of Television on my computer. Really the whole High Def world is multitudes better online than any other source , well except for local broadcast. So I have a whole bag of websites I go to.
http://hdtv-divx.com Not really High def, but more like a 16×9 view area.
cbs.com Really high def, but fix any advertisement blocker you have or you will not see jack squat.
Diggnation Kevin and Alex
Yidio <–I think what they are doing is illegal, so I am not linking them and I do advise leave your popup and spam blockers on.
and that is how I watch tv online, without the freaks and the spammy just. I warn never click that junk that comes in you email.
Have you seen your computer redirect to search3.comcast.com or search5.comcast.com ? Don’t worry, you do not have a virus. Your web traffic is being filtered. Kind of like if your phone misdials a number, you get a mcdonalds commercial or pepsi commercial. Not cool, right? Read below if you want a better understanding of what that means. A cool fix of the issue is there. If you don’t want to read all of that, scroll to the bottom and look for the bold text “Simplest way I know“. That’s the way for someone looking for the quick fix.
If you do not know by now, Comcast is doing something I can describe as being the same thing they were told not to do. But not calling it what they said they would. They are throttling bandwidth and monopolizing from more than one direction. How?
Ok for starts they are filtering and snooping your internet traffic. You can see proof of this activity if you use Mozilla Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, and type in a link that does not work. Now this in no way says that Internet Explorer is any safer than Firefox, in fact it says internet explorer does the same thing but by the works of Microsoft Bing.
If you type a link that should land you to an error/404 page while using Firefox, it takes you to “http://search3.comcast.com” . Now you see I will not actually link that page because the whole reason they send you there is because they actually make money from yahoo search and the advertisements on that page. Of course they affiliate with Yahoo, they tried to use Google as an example to why they should collect money from website owners because of the traffic they send them.
This move they are making is taking money from the pockets of the Firefox developers. The people at Firefox built their browser and hard coded the search to work with their affiliate program with Google, Firefox team did leave you/us the option to change to what ever search engine we want. Most of us just left it to the default page. This of course left motivation and or funding to the Mozilla group so they can keep developing and reaching more people with their creative works. The creative works of a group who is not a corporation with a desire to force us into a specified direction, to better highlight other software bundled with it, like an operating system that came forcefully attached to a crappy browser, (windows? mac? lol you figure it out) but no it was a method of freedom. Firefox was the step away from CompuServe and AOL forced browser and constant blast of advertisements. but now someone has their hooks into the money of Firefox. I have the fix
How to fix this issue is go to MVP’s HOSTS site, download the zip file to your desk top and extract all files in that zip straight to your desktop. Right click the file labeled “hosts” the one with no extension and select “open with” and find your notepad.exe file and open with that.
Scroll down till you see the list of website addresses and the ip address of “127.0.0.1” .
My trick is to make this my top line
127.0.0.1 search3.comcast.com
127.0.0.1 search5.comcast.com
This now ensures that my computer will never go to them again.
It however does not put any money back into the hands of the firefox team, but it does not profit a company who is making money off of me because I pay my bills on time, now they also want to make money off of my searches while some other team created the web browser I am using. I have a fear they will do the same that aol did with netscape, buy it up and crud it out till no one uses it anymore, causing the extinction of one last free field for us to graze in.
Another alternative is to leave Comcast all together. I am not against that really. but of course Comcast has taken every cable provider in the area I live and bought up all of their business. Leaving me no choice but to use them if I use cable. Dsl hub is pretty close, I am sure I can pay the same price for dsl and get cheaper cable with more channle and not be bothered by Comcast. but really, what good would I be in the act of toppling the monopoly of comunistcast ?
Maybe I am the only person who hears Comcast complain about increased internet use, every time they increase their internet user count by buying out another company (and all of their equipment). I mean really , if you are losing money guys, stop buying crap and just ride your profits for a while, let the customers be comfortable, you are scaring us.
but on another note, as an extra twist of the knife, since Comcast is using Yahoo for their search engine affiliate :-)
put this in your hosts file
yahoo.com search3.comcast.com
and then close it, select “save” don’t rename anything.. now from the files you saved to your desktop
locate the one labeled “hosts.bat” double click it. you will see a blue box, hit your space bar one time and you are done.
Now close all browsers and re-open them
now go to
sdhfajdhfasjdkf.com
If it takes you to “http://search3.comcast.com/?cat=dnsr&con=ds&url=www.sdhfajdhfasjdkf.com”
Then something has gone wrong, read again, try again.
There is always open dns, this of course really puts you in the same place but slower internet and someone else is filtering your net usage.
and http://www.webmasterworld.com/firefox_browser/3966582.htm
you can always drop Firefox and go for another browser of the same engine.
It won’t fix your issue but you won’t see comcast filtering your traffic.
Simplest way I know is make your web browser go to yahoo any time some one types in the “search3.comcast.com” term by navigating to this folder with notepad (opened in administrator mode) “C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc”
open the file labeled “Hosts” by using notepad in administrator mode.
That will highlight everything in that file.
Now copy this line and add it under everything you see in that hosts file I showed you how to get to.
72.30.2.43 search3.comcast.com
72.30.2.43 search5.comcast.com
Then close all of your browsers and re-open them. and try to go to this web site “search3.comcast.com” or “search5.comcast.com”
instead you will be redirected to yahoo. there . you keep comcast from further profiting on internet usage you already pay for.
Alternatively you can use a different DNS than the one that comcast provides. and this allows you to not worry about most of the comcast $$ making pages you will land on… because you are no longer 100% in their network. It allows you to use the service of the people that comcast pays to bring the internet to your area.
Primary DNS Server : 4.2.2.2
http://www.grc.com/dns/benchma
because it works.
crap loads faster and I don’t get that stupid page from comcast when I land on a link.
Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly. Click here for more information about how to fix the problem.
After clicking that link I get
The key you entered could not be verified because a connection to akismet.com could not be established. Please check your server configuration.
The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can not be established at this time. Please check your server configuration.
Since I updated to the latest version of WordPress I have been getting that error.
and below that error I get another
Server Connectivity
Unable to reach any Akismet servers.
A network problem or firewall is blocking all connections from your web server to Akismet.com. Akismet cannot work correctly until this is fixed. Please contact your web host or firewall administrator and give them this information about Akismet and firewalls.
Akismet server Network Status 66.135.58.62 Obstructed 66.135.58.61 Obstructed Last checked 1 min ago.
On every one of my sights. The spam count is freaking high right now and everything is getting past akismet, ofcourse akismet’s count still says 100% accuracy.
Anyone got a work around ?
btw, my job blocks twitter and my posts send directly to twitter, soo I am not just yelling in the dark.
And of course after posting I get fatal error even though my posts do actually get to the web
This game is great, it’s exercise for the brain. The instructions if they exist, are so many clicks deep in a f.a.q. page I will not bother locating. Better exercise for the brain figuring the stuff out. I hate Faq pages. How can you have predetermined frequently asked questions? If you had issues in beta, that’s bugs!
I love the game, I am a car nut and I know this is all text based with cutesy pictures, but jeese this is addictive. and i know it’s all about advertisements, keep you coming back keeping adverts served fresh and new to you every day.
I have so many level one clutches, you can’t even see the rest of my clkutches, they go below what the frame will show in their embed code.. Gay. that is a stupid bug. I have even gone and bought every car available just so I could install clutches level-5 on each car until i dig my way out. Not a chance. That stupid magic box game is pointless, why would you pay to play that? you can’t get to you recent clutches..
Racing is fun, but upgrades do not come like they look. a 5power on a clutch does not equal your score plus five, it is you original score before last clutch plus five. kind of lame
First make sure that your RSS works, and your links are all functional. Make sure that your titles fit your Posts.
Make sure that you fill in the category, make sure you fill in the proper tags, no random tags or slightly similar. be dead on with your tags. Excerpts and captions options, use them. Now copy your rss link url and head over to these few sites and post your link when you have a fresh new page.
http://feedshark.brainbliss.com/
http://pingomatic.com/ Dead Site, No longer working
http://pingates.com/
http://autopinger.com/
http://ping.in/
http://www.pingmyblog.com/
http://www.pingoat.com/
Now if you do not feel like doing the above. Copy the links below and head to your auto ping program in your blogging script and paste these in. will save you a world of trouble.
Auto Pingers To Encode in your blog
http://xsincome.com/?p=434
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
More of the same deal, but older list, some of these sites are gone but many remain
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
and more From “http://www.jamesbetesh.com”
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.twingly.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz
http:/topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.kping.com/ping/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
Trackbacks
Use trackbacks wisely, do not send a trackback to some person who is saying exactly what you just said, send track backs to people you probably are filling holes for. So if one blog is about doors and your blog is about door knobs, you are a resource for him because he can now refference you. Don’t send trackbacks to doorknob blogs. pointless and no hand washes it’s self.
Good luck have fun