I have a iMac and a Vista PC next to each other. Bought a S$75 iogear GUB 401 - USB Peripherals Sharing Switch to share the two printers I have (hp 4355 and hp Laserjet 1020) with both computers. Works well.
Click here for the product website.
Monday, February 25, 2008
iogear GUB 401 - USB Peripherals Sharing Switch
I have a iMac and a Vista PC next to each other. Bought a S$75 iogear GUB 401 - USB Peripherals Sharing Switch to share the two printers I have (hp 4355 and hp Laserjet 1020) with both computers. Works well.
Click here for the product website.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Swopping Thumb Sticks on XBox Controller
The left thumb stick of both my XBox360 controllers were worn out whereas the right one of both controllers were like new. This is probably because we play FIFA08 and seldom use the right stick.
Buying a new controller would be extravagant so I decided to try switching the left and right thumb sticks for each controller.
Begin by opening up the 6 obvious screws which took some doing cause I probably did not have the right screwdriver and was eroding the top of the screw and losing grip on the head. When I unscrewed all the six obvious screws, the controller would not split open
Googled and found this site which gave the tip that there was a hidden 7th screw.
Finally got the controller open.
Swopping the thumb sticks was dead easy and putting the controller back all together was easy too as each button/pad/stick would go in one way and in its own place only.
Did it:
Buying a new controller would be extravagant so I decided to try switching the left and right thumb sticks for each controller.
Begin by opening up the 6 obvious screws which took some doing cause I probably did not have the right screwdriver and was eroding the top of the screw and losing grip on the head. When I unscrewed all the six obvious screws, the controller would not split open
Googled and found this site which gave the tip that there was a hidden 7th screw.
Finally got the controller open.
Swopping the thumb sticks was dead easy and putting the controller back all together was easy too as each button/pad/stick would go in one way and in its own place only.
Did it:
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
iMac DVD Error - Need to Set Region
Its not often that you have a tech issue and Google it and don't find a clue on how to solve it.
Got a new iMac a couple of weeks ago and only today decided to try to use Front Row to play a DVD. Got the following error with a blank screen each time I slotted in a DVD.
"An error occurred. Press Play/Menu to quit Front Row."
Google the text above and no solution was found. Then I noticed a DVD Player app in the Applications folder. Opened DVD player and the first thing it wanted to knwo was what region I wanted to set the DVD player to. Selected my region and was able to use Front Row to play DVDs after that.
Looking back I am kind of surprised that a super friendly Mac did not tell me that I needed to set the Region first rather than give me an uninformative error message.
So the first time you run the DVD player in a Mac, set the Region first.
Got a new iMac a couple of weeks ago and only today decided to try to use Front Row to play a DVD. Got the following error with a blank screen each time I slotted in a DVD.
"An error occurred. Press Play/Menu to quit Front Row."
Google the text above and no solution was found. Then I noticed a DVD Player app in the Applications folder. Opened DVD player and the first thing it wanted to knwo was what region I wanted to set the DVD player to. Selected my region and was able to use Front Row to play DVDs after that.
Looking back I am kind of surprised that a super friendly Mac did not tell me that I needed to set the Region first rather than give me an uninformative error message.
So the first time you run the DVD player in a Mac, set the Region first.
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