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Why oh Why are those colors on CSI Miami so saturated, orange blue and green!, I have never seen colours so vivid. This show is so unrealistic, shocking, it’s just plain wrong!, how can every setting have such strong colors of blue, green and orange, even when the scene is 50 levels down in the [...]

The first Adobe Indesign Document to print seems to take forever for the print dialog box to appear. Do you fire up your Mac, launch Indesign and go to print your first document, and just watch the spinning beach ball for over a minute or two?  Then each subsequent print is just normal – bizarre. [...]

Cisco Error 51: Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem on Mac OS X   This is a nice little frustrating error message that displays on launch of the Cisco VPN client application for OS X in either 10.7 or 10.6. There are a couple of solutions to be found online, the first one is [...]

So is it now the artic guy on the planet competition, in a blast from nowhere a 5 year old web article made it into the top 10 for the keywords, “coolest guy on the planet” on Google – that guy is Alex Turner and is the lead singer of the Artic Monkeys (who incidentally [...]

Taking a break at the moment in Truckee, Lake Tahoe CA, went snowboarding at Soda Springs resort for the first time the other day. That’s what I call hard work, as a learner, strapping on a big board and walking that thing through the snow can be very physically demanding especially on your legs. I [...]

My Netgear Router, DG834Gv4 failed after a recent upgrade to updated firmware V5.01.14. What a royal pain, I upgraded to the latest firmware for DG834Gv4, I did it while wirelessly connected to the network, downloaded the latest and greatest firmware and uploaded the patch via the Netgear admin web page via Firefox – it went [...]