http://geekologist.net Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:02:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey everybody! I'm Oliver (otherwise known as lockerhaxor across the internet), a high school student, a video maker, a gamer, and a fellow geek. I was invited by Keaton, to blog on Geekologist, and I'm very happy to be here. Just to give you a little background on myself, I've been ... http://geekologist.net/2009/07/a-new-geek-at-your-service/ Today when logging into my Apple Developer account I noticed a nice little surprise. A new iPhone OS beta was available for download via Apple Developer connection. I have yet to download the beta considering many people are having issues with the network connectivity and such however I did want ... http://geekologist.net/2009/07/att-mms-and-iphone-os-3-1/ The Podium Revolution! The only desktop stand for your iPhone/iPod Touch you will ever need. Alright, sorry for the infomercial type intro but the Podium Revolution is one of the best iPhone/iPod Touch stand on the market. The stand itself comes in both white and silver both built with perfection ... http://geekologist.net/2009/06/pivotal-podium-revolution-review/ Updated way to enable tethering: Simple! Just go to this website on your phone.  http://help.benm.at/help.php Click on mobileconfigs. Select your Country. Select your carrier. It will ask you if you want to install. Click install. Enjoy your tethering via Settings > General > Network > Internet Tethering Old way to enable tethering: iPhone 3.0 is live! So I ... http://geekologist.net/2009/06/enable-tethering-on-iphone-30-os-for-att/ This post is long overdue but I am excited to be getting the opportunity to review the Xpad4Laptop's and share my opinions First and foremost this product does exactly what it needs to do. When using the Xpad4Laptop's it was able to keep my HP DDv2700 series laptop up to ten ... http://geekologist.net/2009/06/xpad4laptop-review/ Today I ran into an interesting problem where a virus infection on a computer caused a major issue with IE7. After doing some research and messing around on my own I found the easiest way to get IE7 back up and running if you run into a similar issue. Description of ... http://geekologist.net/2009/06/ie-7-opens-then-closes-issue-resolved/ As I have said time and time again, no operating system is created equal, nor do they present themselves as better than another. Such a statement can be applied to Windows because, hopefully, everyone knows Windows is prone to crashing. If you haven't backed up your important and even your ... http://geekologist.net/2009/05/your-universal-guide-to-windows-part-2/ Hi there.  I thought I might give you a little background on myself before I wrote this blog entry.  My name is Cody “Belthesar” Wilson, and I’m one of the lesser known members of the Geekologist team.  Typically, I sit in the background and am here to give guidance and ... http://geekologist.net/2009/05/windows-7-microsoft-finally-antes-up-in-the-desktop-os-game/ Yakuake is a KDE based terminal emulator and I have to say, it's my favourite terminal application out there! You can set it to run on startup and define a hotkey which allows you to show/hide the terminal window whenever you wish. It's a really handy tool which has no ... http://geekologist.net/2009/05/ubuntu-yakuake-the-drop-down-terminal/ So your mom, sister, or even best buddy calls you up and says, "My computer is broke help me fix it!" Instinctively you would rush over to help them with their computer needs. However here are a few things to thing about before you go rushing to start the repairs. Before ... http://geekologist.net/2009/04/fixingcomputers/