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Computer Hardware Tech Tips

nVidia Optimus Giving You The Blues?

With a new burst of laptops this year, there is a good handful of them that now come with nVidia Optimus. What is this technology? In a nutshell, nVidia Optimus is a technology currently for laptops that allows the use of both the onboard Intel GPU and the nVidia GPU simultaneously, depending on the processing […]

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Tech Tips Tutorials

Roaming Profiles: From Windows XP to Vista / Windows 7

Quick, short post today, but this will probably save you a lot of time searching for a pretty much non-existent answer to a new “feature” introduced in roaming profiles for Windows Vista and Windows 7. It cost me an hour to figure this out. Hopefully you’ll see this and solve the issue in a jiffy… […]

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Information Security Online Privacy Tech Tips

Facebook Security: An Old Phishing Trick, Revived & Analyzed.

In the past, you may remember that I’ve written about many instances where Facebook users were falling for a trick where a link get’s posted on their wall asking them to click a fake link in order to gain access so some “cool” feature such as getting a free iPad, gaining access and see other […]

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Android Tech Tips

Android Market 2.3 Force Close / Crash

I was stumped by this issue for a long time and was only recently able to find the solution using the Android SDK’s “adb logcat” function to reveal the system logs. Essentially, you try to install or update an app from the Android market, and it crashes with a force close message. Reading around on […]

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Android News Personal

Updates!!! March 23, 2011

Long time no see? Just wanted to write this post to keep you guys updated on a few behind the scenes things… 1.) New domain :: dmach.net. Everything that was available from darwin-mach.net is now on dmach.net, which should be regarded as the primary domain for all transactions. It’s shorter and much cleaner to use. […]