Microsoft recently banned all modded Xbox 360 consoles from their Xbox Live network, and as a result cheap consoles have been showing up for sale online in droves. If you are in the market for a used Xbox 360, be very careful and know exactly what you are buying. These modified Xbox 360 consoles have been [...]
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Be Very Careful Buying a Used Xbox 360
Thursday, November 12, 2009Quickly Generate Lorem Ipsum Text in a Microsoft Word Document
Wednesday, May 13, 2009Microsoft Word 2007 has a simple shortcut that lets you generate Lorem Ipsum filler text with just a few keystrokes. You can enter the =lorem() function to generate a block of filler text, or provide arguments to the function to customize its output. The complete function for adding a custom block of Lorem Ipsum filler text [...]
Experiences with Netflix on Xbox 360
Wednesday, January 28, 2009Netflix is working with a variety of partners to further the next generation of video rental — on demand rentals delivered to your television over the Internet. One of the latest announcements regarding this effort is Netflix’s partnership with Microsoft to bring movies to your TV over Xbox Live. Requirements In order to rent movies and tv [...]
Strange News: Massive Overnight Zune Failure
Wednesday, December 31, 2008“Tons” of Gizmodo readers are reporting that their Zune 30 players stopping working last night. The Zune Scene tech support forums are full of posts (and a sticky at the top titled “Stop Creating Zune 30 Frozen Threads Look Here First”), as are the Zune.net forums. Folks are dubbing the fiasco with amusing names such [...]
Get 30% Cash Back from eBay Purchases with This Live.com Promotion
Tuesday, October 21, 2008Reader Mikey Strikes tipped us off that eBay and Live.com are running a promotion that gives 30% cashback to buyers of certain eBay items. In order to qualify for the discount, you must purchase an item on eBay using “Buy It Now” within 60 minutes of clicking a paid search advertisement on Live.com marked with [...]
How to Open .xlsx Files
Thursday, July 24, 2008A friend sent me a .xlsx file. What is it, and how do I open it? An XLSX file is an Excel spreadsheet that was created with Microsoft Office 2007. Office 2007 includes a new XML-based file format — files saved in this new format have an “x” appended to the file extension in order to [...]
