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HDTV channels with OTA antennas in Toronto, bye-bye Rogers!
I’m living in Toronto, Canada and these days the Rogers’ bill got me – I’m just sick of paying hundred of dollars every month. Last year I bought an HDTV antenna but it wasn’t working with my old TV. This year I bought an HDTV and the things are changed – just couple of days [...]
ST600 LG Smart TV Upgrader Subtitles not Working
Glad I solved a problem I have had for a while and this is just a note for me and also for others looking for a solution to this problem. What happened is that my LG Smart box hasn’t load some of the subtitles, no matter if they were .srt or .sub, they weren’t working [...]
How to Delay or Cancel an Email Sent with Outlook
This trick will come in handy if you’re using Outlook at your workplace as is giving you the chance to delay or even cancel the email you just sent. If you’re here chances are you already know what I’m talking about but if somebody needs a scenario bellow is the most frequent one. You just [...]
How to Make any HTML Element a Link Using jQuery
I’ve been thinking for a while to start writing down what I’m learning in terms of web development and here we are. I’ve learned last week a nice and easy way of transferring the URL to an HTML element so basically you can make any element on the page clickable in no time. This article [...]
Google+ How to Get an Invitation
For all of you who don’t know yet what’s Google Plus, this is the new big thing in the social media world, pretty much similar with Facebook, maybe even better. Wondering how to get a Google Plus invitation? Here’s how. As for now Google Plus is based on invitations only and there is no “official” [...]
The Lowdown on Usage-Based Billing in Canada
Even if you’re not a Canadian (based on stats it seems I have more visitors from US than Canada) you might find this article informative as this new law is going to apply soon enough in pretty much every country in the world. And this is gonna change (almost) everything… While UN declared 2 weeks [...]
New Street Browser Based Game Coming to Toronto
Internet browsing is probably the main reason why people, nowadays, buy a computer. But you can do pretty much everything online with all those cloud services, much more than just web browsing. You can now book airline tickets, complete an online Master’s degree program or reconnect with every single person from your high school. Even [...]
Internet TV- Yes, it’s coming
I was talking not long ago about using VLC to watch internet TV but today the streaming technology is yet far beyond. Technology is now doing for TV what TV couldn’t do for itself- Making it relevant. The days of primitive programming and broadcast timeslots are on the way out, a few decades after they [...]
Cannot Create Another Factory Recovery Disk for Lenovo
Problem: I tried to create a factory recovery disk for my Lenovo ThinkPad but it failed. Now, when I try again and I click on Create Recovery Media I get this message: “You can have only one copy of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The Product Recovery Media Creator will exit now.” My thoughts. Lenovo [...]
How URL Shorteners Pass Link Juice
Now, this will be an unusual article for me to write about SEO, but since there has been a great deal of speculation from any web geek, even from our SEO consultant on whether link shorteners, such as bit.ly and goo.gl pass link juice, I want to give it a try and say it – [...]
301 Redirect non www to www in WordPress
Having the both versions of your WordPress blog, with www and without www working will make the search engines like Google to consider as being two different domains. I know, is stupid as both are sharing the same name and is dumb to be considered different, but this is happening in reality. Ask Google why [...]
How to backup your Gmail account for free
Lately with all these lost Gmail accounts I started to think what should I do to keep safe my emails. The solution I have in mind is simple and free but I can bet there are other paid ones if you really think seriously to back-up your Gmail account. What I’m going to do is [...]
