Possible fix for a Not Extended policy error. This just seems to be the week for things breaking on my site. For awhile now I have been getting an error when I go to this site from my service provider. Not Extended A mandatory extension policy in the request is not accepted by the server for this resource. A very odd error. A… Read More
Your Twitter app suddenly does not work with OAuth, could be your database A few days back one of my twitter aps, NewsSnacker.com stopped working for some reason. I have not touched the code in months. So what the heck was going on? More odd is that fact the twittFilter was working fine. They are based off the same OAuth2.0 code. After a few hours of hacking and… Read More
How to get Outlook to connect to GMail Google Apps with 2-step verification This drove me nuts for awhile. I have Google Apps so my GMail account is not .gmail.com. No matter what I tried, I could not get Outlook to connect to my GMail account which has 2-step verification turned on. After doing quite a bit of research I finally figured it out. You need to set… Read More
My First 3D print. A stand for my Pebble I have written about his before, but have not got around to printing it. So this weekend I’m at the AEC Hackathon hosted by Facebook. There are lots of toys here including a few 3D printers. Now is my chance to try 3D printing for the first time. I grabbed the .stl 3d digital file… Read More
How to get name tag adhesive off a shirt after you washed it. Tip #954 It was only a matter of time. I go to a fair number of events, not as many as others, but enough. And every now and again I will put on a name tag. Since I do not go to that many and I do not always put a paper name tag on, I sometimes… Read More
Edit Microsoft docs on the iphone. New App from Microsoft 360. Video demo Well this came from nowhere. I guess they do not want to give iPhone users any more reason to get another iPhone instead of a Windows phone, but Office is Microsoft’s biggest profit product, and they know they need to move to the cloud with 360, so they bit the bullet and released an iPhone… Read More
Restore iphone without losing jailbreak using SemiRestore I have not tried this so use at your own cation. But if you want to know how to restore your iOS on your iphone or ipad but NOT lose your jailbreak, this could be for you. Now before you ask, its RESTORE. Not upgrade or downgrade. So that being said, here is SemiRestore! SemiRestore… Read More
How to make awesome bacon breakfast cups! Just saw this on Reddit. Had to share. What does this have to do with games or technology? Nothing. Just pure food porn. Ingredients: Muffin Tin (Non-stick is best) 6 large/x-large eggs Bacon stripsandbaconstripsandbaconstripsIhadtousethisfeature. Bread circles slightly larger then the bottom of the muffin tin. (I used a cup and pressed out the centre of… Read More
Cheats for SimCity 5 2013 Ok, just for the records here are you cheats so far. Now remember, these only work in sandbox mode. As I hear more, I’ll update this. Also, if anyone finds new cheats for SC 5, let me know. Code: Result: ALT+W Add $100,000 ALT+F Toggle Fire On/Off ALT+C Toggle Crime On/Off ALT+M Toggle Health Issues… Read More
Civ Revolution for iPad updated! I like Civilization Revolution for iPad. Even wrote a collection of Tips and Tricks for Civ Revolution. Well seems there is a Civ Revolution, v 2.4.1 to be exact. Well, not really new, just a new version. The biggest change in multiplier. What you can do now is invite a few friends (or enemies) into… Read More
How to fix a sticky home button on the iPhone 4 Over the past month I’ve had a problem with the home button not always working on my iPhone 4. My first thought was dirt, but it was inconsistent. I figured it has to be a software glitch keeping the home button from registering a click. The first thing I tried was reboots. That worked, but… Read More
How to get Siri voice to read notification banners through jailbreak. There is a cool jailbreak app that will read you banner notifications using Siri voice called VSNotifications. Nice! Credit http://appadvice.com/ via ‘The Great iPhone Jailbreak‘ for this one. You can get this from the Cydia Store in the BigBoss repository. Once installed you enabled it from a new pane that will be added to the… Read More
How to revert (downgrade) from iOS6 to iOS5 using jailbreak. Step by Step So you did it. Now you want to go back to iOS5 from iOS6. Of course iPhone 5 and 4s users are out of luck but if you have the iPhone 4, you can still correct your mistake. All you need is a jailbreak. However, if you do have the iPhone 4s or 5, you… Read More
iOS6 and the new iPhone5!!! Lets jailbreak! So as we are all aware, the new iPhone 5 was announced yesterday with a lengthy list of new specs, by apple, along with the new iPod 5g (the first of which to be released with a multi color color display option). Both of which are going to have the anticipated iOS6 on them. According… Read More
If your thinking of Jailbreaking or have no idea!! So you just got an iDevice. Welcome to the club, pal. I dont mean it with any disrespect, but nowadays, every family has about 2 iDevices. And guess what? Only one third of them are jailbroken. And it’s kind of a mix between they dont know how, they dont trust it, or simply they have… Read More
Scumbag Steve’s tips and cheats for social games. I saw this on VentureBeat and thought I would put a summery together, check out the full post if you have the time. But before we get started, I chose Scumbag Steve for a reason, I think cheating at social games is pretty weak. I mean really, its suppose to be a fun relating thing,… Read More
Best way to fix the weak MagSafe 2 power adapter on the new Mac, get an old adapter When I started messing around with a new MacBook Pro I was pretty impressed with it. Light, fast and a much better user experience then some of my less powerful predecessors. However there was one thing that bugged me. The power connector kept coming off. Now I’m pretty rough on my machines so I figured… Read More
How to opt out of Apple iOS advertizing.. Instructions from Apple. I have not really encounter this, at least yet, so I’m not bothered to do this, but then again, perhaps I do not use the type of applications that would flood me with iOS Apple ads. If you are, Apple has provided a way for you to opt out. Here are the steps and links..… Read More
fixing the lockdown error when jailbreaking 5.1.1 with Absinthe 2.0.2 I finally got around to jailbreaking my iphone4 running iOS 5.1.1. I used Absinthe 2.0.2 for windows. It went well enough till it locked up on me. I ran it again and this time got this error. Could not connect to lockdown There is a similar error called lockdown error -5. Both errors are really… Read More
A Fix for brightness, sleep and other keyboard controls not working in Windows 8 This is just a consumer preview, so do not expect everything to work right of the box. This morning I got an update for windows 8 and that loaded a few drivers (I expected) and suddenly my keyboard control keys started working. Also I finally got the Sleep option! Finally. So if you having any… Read More