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The Playstation 3 is a badass media player

Back when Blu-Ray players were upwards of $1000, the Playstation 3 was one of the best Blu-Ray players on the market. What some people may not know is what multimedia functions the Playstation 3 has.

Michael Gaines | Jan, 26, 2011 | 1 comment

Geekistry Giveaway

The holiday season is in full-swing and Michael and I have planned a little Geekistry Giveaway for you. The inspiration for this giveaway comes from Blizzard’s commitment to donate 50% of all sales of each Moonkin Hatchling from now until December 31st to the Make a Wish Foundation (that’s $5 from each $10 pet!) The newly released non-combat pet has two variations, one for each faction and once activated, the code applies to all present and future characters on a single World of Warcraft license. Geekistry is giving away two pets to two lucky fans!

How to disable the Windows Automatic Updates dialog

One of the detriments of working in a corporate environment is that sometimes you have Windows security updates forced upon you at rather inconvenient times. For me, it’s usually right in the middle of fixing a hot problem, this Dialog Box From Hell pops up in your face:

Michael Gaines | Sep, 22, 2010 | 0 comments

How to get an Aero Glass Command Prompt in Windows Vista/7

A few years ago, I was very heavy into the Windows XP GUI mod community. There was one thing I always wanted to do and that’s create a translucent Command Prompt like you can do in Mac OS X. The problem was that there was no perfect way to do it. The one mod that did allow you to was very limited in what it was capable of doing. I even tried writing one myself which I could never get working properly.

Michael Gaines | Aug, 16, 2010 | 0 comments