Author Archives: jciv

Amazon Shipping Sucks

Written by jciv on October 6, 2006 — 5 Comments

Last weekend I ordered an ATI TV Wonder Elite from Amazon for $77.99 for transferring some home videos. That was near the lowest price I found and was still cheaper than many after I upgraded from FREE Super Saver Shipping (5-9 business days) to Standard Shipping (3-5 business days) for $6.17 more. It was shipped […]

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Halloween Ghost Video

Written by jciv on October 4, 2006 — Leave a Comment

Do You believe in Ghosts? I have never seen a ghost. I don’t know if they really exist or not. But this video shows some really compelling evidence. You really must see this for yourself.

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Office Student Edition Scam

Written by jciv on September 7, 2006 — Leave a Comment

Have you been computer shopping and noticed that most low cost machines don’t come with Microsoft Office? You might find it comes with a time limited trial version of Office. Maybe it has Microsoft Works instead. It isn’t unusual to find a machine with a stand alone version of WordPerfect. And then there are the […]

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Vista Pre-RC1

Written by jciv on September 3, 2006 — Leave a Comment

Microsoft recently released another public beta of Windows Vista so I downloaded it as soon as possible. I just got around to installing it. This isn’t the 64 bit version though like I got last time; I have read that was slow for a lot of people so maybe not releasing another public 64 bit […]

Posted in operating systems, review

Tivo Finally Got It

Written by jciv on August 22, 2006 — Leave a Comment

My Tivo has been trying to record UFOs: Seeing Is Believing on National Geographic all month. I really liked the show, but I have seen it way too many times since May 2005 when it was new. I cancel it by changing the channel each time I catch Tivo recording it, but apparently Tivo really […]

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Snakes On A Plane

Written by jciv on August 20, 2006 — Leave a Comment

The thought of a movie about snakes on a plane was just so stupid I was not going to see this movie. But I gave in Saturday. The reviews of the movie were not nearly as bad as I expected. It is frequently referred to as dumb B-movie summer fun. The idea just kept growing […]

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Recover Damaged JPEG files

Written by jciv on August 19, 2006 — 2 Comments

I am not talking about when you accidentally erased your camera’s memory or it got damaged, there are already plenty of solutions for that. What I want is to fix photos that have somehow been corrupted. In my case, photos of my Grandmother’s 80th birthday were put on a bad CD (not by me). Not […]

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Gateway Fishing

Written by jciv on August 5, 2006 — Leave a Comment

I got a call today (Saturday) from Gateway wanting to check to see if I was having any problems with my recent purchace of a Gateway system. I am having trouble with the left mouse button only working half the time, but I didn’t want to get into that at the time, it still kind […]

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Google Browser Sync Sucks

Written by jciv on July 21, 2006 — 1 Comment

This is based on a email I sent to Google’s support for the Browser Sync Firefox extension. All these issues I have been having since 1.0 of the extension, this is at least the third version and yet I still cannot use it on my desktop. Since I only have it installed on two computers, […]

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My New Notebook

Written by jciv on June 20, 2006 — Leave a Comment

If there is anyone reading my blog, you probably were wondering if I got my new notebook on Monday like predicted. I did. I just have been so busy playing with it I couldn’t find time to post. I really like the battery life. It is amazing compared to what I had before. I guess […]

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