Andy

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Review of VolumeDrive VPS

I was in need of a reasonably priced VPS to run this website as well as a few others. In my search on the Internet for a decent provider I ran into many options. One of these options was VolumeDrive.com. They offer Virtual Private Servers at really good prices.

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GoDaddy DNS Taken Down – Thousands Of Sites Offline

As of this writing, September 10 2012, thousands of websites are currently offline. This is due to major Domain provider GoDaddy experiencing an attack on their name servers. This means that even if your website is hosted elsewhere but its domain is registered and hosted at GoDaddy it will be offline.

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Team Fortress 2 Dedicated Server In Linux

Now that Team Fortress 2, or TF2 for the sake of this article, is free to play just about everyone with some sense of computer gaming has played it. A dedicated server allows you to have control over the server and invite all your friends to play! In this guide we will set up a …

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HTC Evo V 3D: First Impressions

I just get myself a HTC Evo V 3D. All I have to say is that it’s AMAZING compared to my previous LG Optimus V. Even with custom firmware the Optimus V just didn’t come close in performance with its 600MHz ARM6 processor compared to the Dual Core 1.2 GHZ processor in the Evo V. …

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Seagate GoFlex Desk External Hard Drive Review With Benchmarks

I was in need of a better back-up system. I had an old computer on the LAN and I was writing monthly images to it but its hard drive was beginning to fill. So I went out and bought the Seagate GoFlex Desk USB 3.0 2TB external hard drive. I am very pleased with my …

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Automatically Switch Default Printers Between Different Networks

Many of us, especially those with laptop computers, travel often. Whether it be traveling between your home and office or your home and school we often need to print something to the printer on the local network. Now until now this meant having to select a different printer from a drop down box every time …

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Boot Time: OCZ Agility 3 SSD VS Seagate Barracuda HDD Video

I recently purchased a new 120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD when it was on sale for about $60. So far it has been nice, my full review will be posted here on Tech+ in a few days with benchmarks and all. For now you can view this video I made. The SSD clearly improved the …

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Link2SD – Upgrading Your SD Card

You would think that upgrading the SD card in your Android phone would be as simple as copying the contents over to your new SD card. With Link2SD you need to remember the second partition on your SD card that contains off of you apps. This partition cannot be seen from Windows so to get …

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Check If Your Yahoo Account Was Hacked

As many of you probably already know Yahoo Voices was recently hacked with 450 thousand accounts compromised.After publishing the article I noticed that many of the people viewing the post were interested in find out if their accounts were one of the ones compromised. I didn’t want to link to the text file with all …

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Yahoo Hacked – 450K Passwords Leaked

Now it was Yahoo’s turn to get hacked. A group that goes by the name of D33D has broken into the Yahoo database using a SQL exploit and gained access to 450 thousand Yahoo user accounts. They published the list of hacked account online. This list included the emails and passwords of 450 thousand Yahoo …

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SSH Via Command Prompt Or Batch File In Windows

I normally don’t leave all of my computers turned on through-out the night but sometimes turning them all off before I go to bed can be a nuisance. I was determined to create a batch file to turn off all of my computers. For windows it is easy but Linux and my ESXi server required …

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How To – Minecraft Portable Edition

Minecraft is a great game. No doubt about it. Now imagine you could play this great game where every you were? Sweet, right? Well following this guide you can install Minecraft to your USB flash drive and save you worlds to it as you go from computer to computer!

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Automatically Sync Your Android’s Photos To Your Home Computer

Having the ability to take pictures with our cell phones is great. Our cell phones allow us to capture memories wherever we are. The only problem is the task of getting those pictures off of your phone and onto your computer. Yes there are things like Google Picasa but they have storage limits and sometimes …

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Corsair Flash Voyager GT 16 GB USB 3.0 Review & Benchmarks

USB 3.0 technology is by far superior than USB 2.0. The only problem is that there are few items on the market that currently support USB 3.0. Luckily Corsair makes a great USB 3.0 flash drive, the Voyager GT USB 3.0. In this review we will talk about the appearance of the drive, the size …

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iPhone 4S Coming To Virgin Mobile – Reduced Montly Plan

On June 29, Virgin Mobile sent out a mass email to all of it’s customers regarding a new phone coming to their collection. The last few months Virgin Mobile has released two new phones and now they are adding a third to their line of pre-paid cell phones. The iPhone 4S.

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