tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-124005262011-12-14T02:13:04.850-08:00Get help on computer problems or read reviewes on anything from the latest gadget to the most recent movie.John D Geekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17773883553805246518noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12400526.post-38400386954773473522011-03-04T19:24:00.001-08:002011-03-04T19:32:44.688-08:00

  So what are all these mixed up checker board looking things you're seeing everywhere? They are called QR codes, and they make your smart phone a whole lot smarter. Imagen you are walking through the mall and you see a poster of that new movie everyone is talking about. You want to discover more about it, but you're never going to remember the web address. Then you see the QR Code in the corner.

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If you use a program like Wallpaper Master or Display Fusion you can set you speed dial to the wallpaper image that program makes, so every time you open Opera it will match the current wallpaper you are using. The long way to do this is to open the file you want to be your wallpaper and save it as a generic name (Wallpaper.jpg might be good). You now have two copies of the image. Set your

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  OK so right now twitter is the "killer app." of the Internet. It is one of the social network sites that have near instantly seen infamous status and attention from almost everyone in the world. If you have been near a radio, TV, or computer you have most likely heard or read about twitter, and while we all celebrate this deviously simplistic site it's only a matter of time before the

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I'm sure many of you have noticed as you click from web site to web site that some of them have a bit more identity then others. Like my site for instance has a greek key as the logo or Googles new multi-color g. Opera holds all of these icons in a special area so it doesn't have to spend time downloading it later. What does this mean for us? Well it means we are normally holding anywhere from a

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Every so often as I'm sure many web developers do I tried to pop into my site just to see how thing were doing. To my dismay I was unable to hit the site, I figured it was something I did wrong so I cleared internet cache, checked that I was connected and tried again. Nothing still happened. Passed a quick e-mail to my provider, 1&1, to let them know I had noticed and wanted to know what was

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  In the last Opera hack for search sites I showed how to add search sites to Opera that would become available in the toolbar. Opera has created a far simpler way of doing this now so I thought it would be the right thing to do and show you this new method also.  When you are at a site with an input field simply right click on the field and choose "Create Search..." It will automatically know

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For some time I have been using the popular instant messaging client Trillian from Cerulean Studios. In the basic version it allows a person to connect to MSN, Yahoo, AOL / ICQ, and IRC. The four largest instant messaging communities all in one application. It saves my system memory space and removes all the crap I don't need that is installed by default on the standard IM clients. I have

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iscrybe.comFlickr Photostream of Scrybe The internet has more and more entered its way into everything we do as a society. It has become an awesome resource for information and communication. The new frontier is using the internet as an application. The beginning of this is personal information management apps or PIM for short. They usually consist of a calendar a contact list or some place

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Almost anywhere you look you can find someone or something playing music. Since the time of Napster the internet has been linked to music with little success from the powers that be to separate them. As if almost in spite of the efforts to keep a tight hold onto the rights to distribute the music places like Amazon, Napster, Real player, and iTunes have legitimized the internet as a system to

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After some years I had decided that the design of the site needed an update so I spent some time and put together something that might do better with search engines as well as looking just a tiny bit more professional. Not much has been happening for me in the past few weeks. I'll have some great new posts in the next day or so. Some things to look forward to are reviews of some great sites that

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Can't sell it on e-bay? Not able to trade with a friend or family member? The EPA has begun a new "eCycling" program to help make it easier to correctly dispose of old electronics, ink and toner cartridges, and batteries.http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/conserve/plugin/index.htm

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Hello again to everyone on the net. I'm writing again with a great tip for Opera users. This is a built in feature of Opera that allows you to add any web page as a panel. First lets understand what the panel is. The panel is the side bar or area that you can quickly choose from things like your contacts or downloads. If you press the F4 key on your keyboard you will see it hide and appear. It

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So it's been close to a year now since my last post and I have the need to blog again. Recently I have been adding myself to beta projects for Scrybe and Grand Central. Scrybe is an on-line calendar that allows you to quickly and easily view important dates of the year and drill down to the days events with a few simple clicks. use the link to check out a demo. The other site, Grand Central, is a

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This is a simple hack for Opera that you can use in many ways other then adding a calendar. First would be to find a great on-line calendar that you like. I use CalendarHub.com but you can also use Google's calendar or any other calendar that allows you to create a calendar that can be viewed without logging in. In some cases that is known as publishing your calendar. In most cases you also have

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For at least a year now I have seen Skype in the news showing advancement and becoming more and more a popular choice to using a telephone. It is a great service that offers an easy jump point into VoIP ( Voice over Internet Protocol ). My brothers and mom all have accounts that they can use to call each other and make inexpensive calls to Europe. It allows people to seek out and communicate with

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nastiest malware trends 2007 The article above talks about some nasty and evasive programs known as malware. It gets this name from the fact that it is software that in some way is malicious to your system and/or personal information. check what Wikipedia has to say about malware. It now becomes your responsibility to insure some dirt bag isn't using you or your computer to make money without you

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Here in the States it's time again to open our hearts and wallets and give, give, give. I've just been trough a great site called gifts.com. I used that site to pick out some of the better tech gadgets that I think would be great for your geek to find under the Christmas tree. So lets get into it. Skullcandy-G-I-Stereo-Headphones : Most any geek out there will have some fascination with audio.

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Just added the blog badges to the bottom of the posts so you can more easily share them with your friends on nearly every social bookmark site out there.

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Well folks here is another tip for one of the greatest browsers, Opera. This one will allow you to change how your e-mails read so you can take more control of the one part I have a problem with in Opera. As those of you that tried the software might know Opera has a built in e-mail client. That they have called M2. The way e-mail is stored in the client is much the same way mail is stored in

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If you visit my site johndgeek.com you will see I have added a new 2d image to the portfolio. It's a photograph of my grand parents, mother, and uncles in the traditional dutch costume. The picture was taken just before they moved to the USA from Holland. At the time the photographer only offered the prints in black and white. The picture endured several decades until one day my grand father

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Just a few weeks ago I broke down and, behind my wife's back, bought a BlackBerry® 8700g. If you remember reading my last review I had a cell phone that used the ToGo minutes from T-mobile®. This phone would have worked with that plan but I would not have been able to do a whole lot. So I upgraded to a standard 1000 minutes plan and added the unlimited minutes for e-mail and internet.

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T-Mobile When I went to my local T-Mobile and went looking for a good phone I was actually going to get a sidekick or blackberry. What I ended up getting was the Samsung x495. It is a great phone.I have yet to find the phone that suits me best. I'm looking for a phone that I can hook up to the PC and move data to and from it. Things like ringers and wallpapers and the obvious phone book

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It is apparent these days that corporations are doing everything they can to turn a profit. The entertainment business is no exception. RIAA is an something like a union for recording artists. More accurately RIAA's members are recording companies in America. Over the past few years the RIAA have been fighting against piracy with such a fervor that the association has now created a huge animosity

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For almost 6 months now I have played with a great DVR (Digital Video Recorder) From Panasonic. It can record a show and play it back while it's recording or play back a previously recorded show while recording another show. It uses TV Guide to get a listing of all my channels and it can play or record DVDs. The list goes on with MP3 play back, SD card playback of pictures, and the player can

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It isn't often that I come across a program that I think deserves to be mentioned. So often they miss the mark. Some programs will be intuitive and easy to use but lack the power or ability to do anything effective. Other times the application is powerful and give the user limitless potential but requires classes or several books to just learn how to use. This little application is one such

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Looking at the Opera icon I noticed that it seemed bland compared to the IE and FF icons. So I set out to create one that is updated. I found operajournal.com for inspiration. So here they are

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After several years I finally decided to get a new computer. I took a trip to the local Fry's electronic store and spent an hour just looking at the different systems. Mostly because I was looking for a system that would be upgradeable with off the shelf part and also was built with hardware that was meaningful to me. So much of what is sold with a computer these days is never used because the

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Ever since Apple has forced you to install iTunes and Quicktime together I've been reluctant to update from version 6 to version 7. I loved going to the movie trailer area and seeing the trailers to movies they don't advertise on TV. But now they are requiring Quicktime 7 so I set out to see if I could install just Quicktime.First of course I had to download Quicktime with iTunes from the site,

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Before during or after work I like to spend a minute or two at Digg to see what new news has been found by the digg community. I usually hang out in the digg for stories section where all the newest stories are submitted to. Even though this subject has been covered by many other people and submitted to digg for review it seems that we have some stragglers that missed the first and second

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Below I have the three most popular torrent sites set for use with Opera. Simply copy and paste to the search.ini file and Opera should have them ready for use in the toolbar. Have requests or questions send me a comment. [Search Engine 4] Name=Pirate Bay URL=http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=%s Query= Key=pb Is post=0 Has endseparator=0 Encoding=utf-8 Search Type=119 Verbtext=17063 Position=

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I have a complex install of Windows on my computer. The main install of Windows in on a smaller drive (C:) and the rest of my stuff is on a second drive (X:). Since my C drive is small I try to move anything I can to the much rommier X drive. Since I've been an Opera user for at least 3 or 4 years now I have a lot of crap built up in my profile directory that can be moved. If you are running with

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Even though Opera is now free of banner ads the stuff that contoled it was not removed. In this hack we are simply cleaning up the mess and insureing ourselvs that our system is clean.First off we need to remove the directory that held the ad content. open your Opera profile directory and you will see one called ACPO. just highlight and delete it.next is the regestry settings. Open regedit and

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If you use Opera I'm sure you have wondered once or twice about adding or removing a search site or two from the search field dropdown. I have mine to the right of my address bar and it only shows the search options I want. This save me time and headaches when doing a search. I hope to add a new hack to Opera each week to show it's flexibility and power. let's get started.1) You need to know

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A few months ago the company SIP Phone released a competitive software called Gizmo Project. It's a program that allows a person with an internet connection to make a phone call to other computers or land line phone. It was an effort to compete with Skype which is also a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) program, and a popular one too. Skype like many of the preceding Voip software uses a

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the link takes you directly to the features section of GTTV. Great way to get your quick fix of gaming news. Check it out and post what you think.read more | digg story

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If you've spent any amount of time on my site you'll see that I have a link to the underdog browser Opera. I myself use Opera and I have not had any problems with a majority of the sites I have visited. One thing I like about it is that skins. I like the ability to make the browser look and feel different depending on my moods. With Opera you can add remove icons select skins and even set color

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Some of you that visit my site will sometimes notice that, for a brief second or two, I have an icon display in the address bar. Once the page is fully loaded the icon is changed back to the common boring icon that is always there. I sent several emails and even call their tech support to see if they would update there service so I could display the icon as I want to.Here is what is happening.

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A California company is hoping to tap into the growing podcasting craze with software that enables mobile phone users to stream audio files directly from their home computer.read more | digg story

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I just finished watching a report about porn junk mail on NBC's Dateline tonight and saw something that reminded me of some other business actions not allowed in the US. The story went along the line that people, family people, where receiving pornographic e-mail without asking for it. The reporter John Hockenberry then went on a journey of two continents and 4 cities to trek down and confront

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Recently the supreme court ruled that a company that makes software can be held accountable if it is shown that the intention of the software was for illegal use. Many other tech savvy sites equate this ruling to gun makers being responsible for gun related murders and armed robbery. I do see the similarities but I think gun violence is a far more serious crime then copyright piracy. And yet we

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In Michael Robertson blog, Legal Battles In VOIP: Vonage and e911 a few weeks back. He talked about disagreeing that "e911" should be mandatory by companies offering VoIP service. His argument is that it would be near impossible to pin point where an e911 call is originating and that the cost of getting this created would slow or even stop some businesses from continuing. I disagree with this

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View the camera here I purchased for my wife (lucky lady) the Olympus C-765 Ultra Zoom. Her criteria was that the camera had to be able to zoom tight enough to allow her the ability to take pictures when we visit zoos and also still be compact enough to cart around without the need of a large case. She wasn't looking for the SLR type of cameras that have interchangeable lenses but something just

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It occurred to me that even though digital cameras have been selling for some years now, people might not know what to look for when buying a digital camera. Well in this post I will give some pointers that will hopefully give you a better idea of what to look for and how to recognize a good value.First off you need to know your budget or what you are willing to pay for a camera with

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I purchased several months ago a new digital camera. It was a wedding present from my wife to me. She didn't want to make the choice herself so she told me "I don't want to make a mistake and get a camera that we would regret later." So through the mailers and newsprint adds we looked to see what the local stores had to offer. After a few hours of tedious searching I came across a great deal from

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Hello everyone! Welcome to the new John D Geek Blog page. Thanks to Blogger.com for providing it. as the days roll on I will be adding all sorts of things to this blog. Reviews, special events, and helpfull links. Please feel free to e-mail me about my blogs. Thank you all for stopping in and I will try to post new content as soon as possible

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