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The TomTom XL 330 S GPS

March 21st, 2009

At the same time that I bought the Garmin, I grabbed a TomTom XL 330S as well. It’s funny, you’d think one would completely win over the other.

It just doesn’t work that way though. They’ve each got pros and cons which I’ll be getting to in another post. In any case, a site has been created for the TomTom as well. Content’s done, but it’ll be slowly added to the site over the next while (just like the Garmin which is also done but pages will be added over time).

A quick list of some pros and cons: Read more…

The Garmin Nuvi 255W GPS

March 19th, 2009

I recently bought a Garmin NĂ¼vi 255W GPS. It’s a pretty impressive unit – it almost reminds me of a Mac in it’s ease of use. I’ve already used it a bit, and plan to do some testing with it over the next few days. I’ll sum things up with a few pros and cons: Read more…

Mac Spore + OSX86 and the sound-but-no-video problem

March 15th, 2009

A minor issue I ran into. My brother got a copy of Spore for Christmas and didn’t have time to play it, so he’s loaned it to me for the time being. I thought I’d give it a try on the hackintosh (using an iDeneb OSX86 installation).

It installed fine. Problem was that when running it, the screen was black. There was sound, but that was it. Did a little searching… and not a lot of luck. I found that alt-enter (or applekey-enter) sometimes worked for people having full screen issues. I tried it, and noticed the monitor continually bouncing to power-saving mode, then normal again. I decided to do a little guessing and deductive reasoning, and the solution was……

Solution: Plug your monitor into the other output on your video card! Read more…

Joomla, SJSB, SMF, and Google Canonical to reduce duplicate content – Part 2

March 1st, 2009

Check out Part 1 before going any further.

Tiny issue – after you do it, you may find that your wrapped version is full of “noindex” on all the pages. Well actually, it’ll have Joomla’s “index,follow”, but keep reading down the meta tags and you’ll find a “nofollow”. This is assuming you’ve told SJSB to pass the META tags to Joomla.

Anyway, you can fix it.

Edit your index.template.php file, and add the following: Read more…