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It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long in [...]
Hey Kiddies, Commodore 64 here to bring another tidbit of good advice from all of us to all of you. Along with this tasty piece of techie goodness is a brief admin-ography of the history of AskTheAdmin.com. We’ve come a long way folks, and we think we’ve finally found the true nexus point of our [...]
October 15, 2009 - 3:59 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows
Posted in Questions | 7 comments
Please follow this email chain between myself and our friend Karl AKA ATA.
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ME
Here’s the scenario….
Backed up info off old laptop to external HD.
During XP install I saw two identical drives…nuked the first partition and tried to install. XP said no. Nuked the 2nd one…XP allowed the install. JOY!!!
You know where this is going don’t you…..
Anywho…it [...]
August 4, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: Free, How To, review, Tips, windows
Posted in How To, Reviews | 7 comments
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite?
No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software!
Either which [...]
June 24, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To | 2 comments
Yes, we know you have taken a million digital photos over the last year, on your fancy shmancy new camera. And we also know the holiday season is almost upon us. Being the geek that you are, you could not just leave your pictures named digital_image_13456.jpg for your slide shows…
We just couldn’t have that now, [...]
April 13, 2009 - 1:31 am
Tags: Tips, windows
Posted in How To | 2 comments
James from Virginia wanted to know if it was safe to delete these Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files from his network. Check out our answer and step by step removal tips.
Running in a mixed Windows/Mac environment I find it annoying to deal with all the little artifacts the great OS’s leave behind. All of our mixed [...]
April 5, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: How To, Tips, windows shortcuts
Posted in How To | 4 comments
It’s very annoying and counter productive for your hands to leave the keyboard as you use your mouse to click, click, clickity click click away at something.
Join the ranks of power users to add keyboard shortcuts for every computer task you do. Yup Any Task!
Built into Windows is the ability to let you assign a [...]
MJ writes to us that her machine runs updates around lunch time and she keeps getting the prompt do you want to restart now?
Not only is it annoying – sometimes she clicks yes by accident and her whole world comes crashing down. (See the fix for this at the bottom of the post – not [...]
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t get a call from a telemarketer at least once a week if not much more. They’ll call and leave no message and annoy the heck out of you.
Unfortunately, some of these calls are actually made by criminals who try to get your personal information.
News articles over [...]
Hey Kiddies,
Commodore 64 here with a quick how-to for Photoshop. Have you ever downloaded an image you’d like to use on your website but it was sandwiched on top of some ghastly color which totally doesn’t fit with your “flow”? Well here is a quick, no-frills, way to a transparent image that you can set [...]
I have heard this question more than once today and about a gajillion times since the release date was announced. I still stick by my answer. This is NOT the JESUS phone. It is NOT magic and it will have issues with the first revision just like every other piece of hardware. Prices will drop features will be added fan boys will be sad.
June 18, 2007 - 2:13 pm
The comment off digg was great had to post it here for everyone. It made me pee a lil’
“Yeah its something i feel strongly about because everyone cant wait for the IPHONE. When I ask them why they say DUDE ITS THE IPHONE. I continue to ask them what can it do that your phone cant…
DUDE ITS THE IPHONE!
Fricking Unreal… Help Me Jebus.”
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June 18, 2007 - 4:57 pm
I really like your site – good luck man. I sent you an email asking if i can be a guest blogger.
BTW: love the Simpsons Reference – for those of u that got it
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June 19, 2007 - 9:22 am
YEAH WHO WANTS AN IPHONE ANYWAY!
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June 19, 2007 - 12:16 pm
There is always something better over the horizon, so yeah you could wait for the next great thing or the perfect firmware, or you could just enjoy the here and now.
Also, there is a reason you are an admin and not a CONSUMER electronics designer. You are beyond foolish if you thought for even one millisecond that CE device that Apple makes is going to have all the nerdy techie features that a person like you would want. It is designed for normal consumers not hardcore techno-geeks.
Next time one of your people asks you about the iPhone rather than asking them why, ask them if they care that it does not have an “SDK” or an “emulator” or a “community hacks”. Chances are they do not have a clue what those are, and from the sound of them will be glad they don’t have to hassle with them.
So I agree that the iPhone will suck…for you. Its the last device you should buy. But you are not within a million miles of the customer that Apple is targeting. In fact I would say they are trying to avoid people like you as customers.
And I won’t even get into the probability that you dislike of Apple is based on a self serving interest to maintain the value of your presence by pushing buggy and complicated windows based technologies on to others that will later require you to come back and help them troubleshoot or repair.
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June 19, 2007 - 12:22 pm
Thank you for your post Justin and you are right in many ways (other than me trying to push buggy software to keep my job alive :))
There are different gadgets for different people and no I do not have a dislike for Apple and I really do like their products. I have made the same comment before Moto Released their first Q – and I was dead on the money. But their were some users that loved it.
To each there own and I am only out here giving my feelings on the subject and it is open to discussion.
Would you like to do some MAC Posts? Maybe a tip of the week or something along that nature – to give our reader the BEST OF BOTH WORLDS?
Karl L. Gechlik
_TheAdmiN_
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June 19, 2007 - 2:23 pm
Karl,
Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately, I am one of the “normal consumers” that I mentioned earlier, and if you are looking for someone to post technical tips or advanced hints, then I am the wrong person. I try to keep on the cutting edge of whats available for my Apple and Non-Apple hardware, but technically, there is little I could offer that is not available in more depth elsewhere. Now if you want some Apple commentary, then I would be happy to provide that.
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June 19, 2007 - 2:27 pm
We would love to hear some Mac commentary from someone as obviously well spoken as your self.
Do you have a blogger login name already? Contact me via email with your id and I will set you up so you can post.
info at mistercomputerhead dot com
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June 19, 2007 - 4:18 pm
I still cant wait for the iphone. like justin said it is for the consumer. that is me and i will be in lin e waiting for it when it comes out. i dont care about sdk or developers or crap. i want a phone and a ipod together.
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July 3, 2007 - 8:32 am
Justin, it’s not so much a “Geek thing”. It’s a normal thing. The iphone is lacking basic phone and PDA features. No MMS, no wireless sync with your own PC, no sync with industry standard software (This is outside of the no synchronization with exchange or even outlook by itself)
While I agree the interface is spiffy, I’ve been running the same interface for the last 6 mos on my Xv6700 which does everything that even a non geek would want (see my wife). No 3rd party programs, that even a general person would want such as a recipie program or a fitness tracker. Fully closed system preventing anyone from even making simple software like that for the non-geek.
Edge? Cmon, the world has been moving to 3g for a long time. Apple could have forced AT&T/cingular’s hand and made a 3g phone. They didn’t.
In the end Apple could have done something awesome that would have put every other pda/smart phone in the ground but greed, paranoia, and lack of respect for their business customers will sadly make the iphone fall flat when everyone realizes it can’t do what they want. (This is my opinion as a network engineer anyway)
Gimmie an LG Prada, I can do everything the iphone can’t with it.
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July 3, 2007 - 8:33 am
Justin, it’s not so much a “Geek thing”. It’s a normal thing. The iphone is lacking basic phone and PDA features. No MMS, no wireless sync with your own PC, no sync with industry standard software (This is outside of the no synchronization with exchange or even outlook by itself)
While I agree the interface is spiffy, I’ve been running the same interface for the last 6 mos on my Xv6700 which does everything that even a non geek would want (see my wife). No 3rd party programs, that even a general person would want such as a recipie program or a fitness tracker. Fully closed system preventing anyone from even making simple software like that for the non-geek.
Edge? Cmon, the world has been moving to 3g for a long time. Apple could have forced AT&T/cingular’s hand and made a 3g phone. They didn’t.
In the end Apple could have done something awesome that would have put every other pda/smart phone in the ground but greed, paranoia, and lack of respect for their business customers will sadly make the iphone fall flat when everyone realizes it can’t do what they want. (This is my opinion as a network engineer anyway)
Gimmie an LG Prada, I can do everything the iphone can’t with it.
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July 3, 2007 - 9:38 am
Yeah Rick you hit it right on the head. How can you make a smart phone that cant cut and paste? No MMS? Whats up with that? Good comment man Even though you did it twice!
We can call you Ricky Two Times.
Gotta get the papers the papers.
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