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What is the #LLAP hashtag? Live long and prosper

Friday, 2015.02.27 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Rest in peace Leonard Nemoy, you will be missed. LLAP stands for live long and prosper. Vulcan salute – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_saluteThe accompanying spoken blessing, “live long and prosper”, (“dif tor heh smusma” in the Vulcan language as spoken in Star Trek: The Motion Picture) also appeared for the first time in “Amok Time”,… Top Search Terms:https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/llap-hashtag-live-long-and-prosper/ (3)rest in peace vulcan language (2)rest in peace and vulcan language (1)

CLOSE Lowe’s credit card account [SOLVED]

Friday, 2015.02.27 J.D. H. 2 comments

Here are the steps to close your Lowe’s credit card account: #1 Login to LOWE’S online credit card account link #2 Go to Account Services -> Close Account #3 Request Closure #4 Provide feedback (optional) #5 Account Close Confirmation Success closing your Lowe’s account! 🙂 Top Search Terms:how to close a lowes credit card (6)how to cancel lowe's credit card (5)how to close lowes credit card (5)https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/close-lowes-credit-card-account-solved/ (5)lowe\'s credit card login (4)how to cancel a lowes credit card (4)cancel lowes credit

Access is denied [SOLVED] Command Prompt Windows 7/8/10

Saturday, 2015.02.21 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Q. Help! I am trying to access a file from an old hard drive on my new machine but when I navigate to the directory on my Windows command prompt I get an ‘Access is denied.’ error message 🙁 Can you help me??? -Megan A. Yes, I believe I can help you Megan 🙂 #1 First you need to start the command prompt as an administrator. You can do this by navigating to the command prompt in the start menu

How to FORMAT my Dish network screen to NOT zoom for HD?

Friday, 2015.02.20 J.D. H. 16 comments

Q. I have a Dish receiver that makes all my HD channels look ugly. It says HD Zoom when I switch to one of those channels. Suggestion? A. If you have an older Dish receiver and want to turn off (or turn on) zoom for HD channels, try pressing the asterisk * [format] button! This should allow you to cycle through the various options for HD channel presentation 🙂 Top Search Terms:https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/how-to-format-my-dish-network-screen-to-not-zoom-for-hd/ (78)dish network hd zoom (5)dish zoomed in (4)dish format

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Missing locals on Dish Network (Oscars, Superbowl) [FIXED]

Friday, 2015.02.20 J.D. H. Leave a comment

We had an unpleasant surprise when we turned on our Dish receiver to watch the Super Bowl, no local channels 🙁 We ended up watching it online (without commercials :-(). Now it is a few weeks later and the Oscars are approaching. Locals were still not coming in so I logged into my Dish online account and used the chat feature. Here is the transcript. They were able to reinitialize my channels and they showed up during the chat, they

Move media files into individual folders with the same name

Tuesday, 2015.01.20 J.D. H. Leave a comment

If you ever decide to backup your DVDs or other media to ISO format, it can be handy to have them each in their own folder. However, if you decide to do this after you have already ripped all the ISOs to a single folder then it can be a time consuming task. I have written batch (.bat) files to automate this process in the past, but recently I discovered a very nice Windows program that can do it for

Turn off Kindle singles recommendations etc. [SOLVED[

Thursday, 2015.01.08 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Some Kindle questions from readers: Q1. How do I turn off the annoying Kindle singles crap that takes up half of my Kindle’s screen?! Menu -> Settings -> Device options -> Personalize your Kindle -> Advanced Options -> Cover View Recommendations -> Off Q2. Can I get rid of recomendations, they are way off?! While you are at it, you can also turn off Special Offers Recommendations: Menu -> Settings -> Device options -> Personalize your Kindle -> Advanced Options

Alexa bluetooth voice commands

Sunday, 2015.01.04 J.D. H. Leave a comment

These command work to pair, connect and disconnect Alexa to a bluetooth device: Alexa, pair Bluetooth Alexa, disconnect my phone Alexa, connect my phone Using your phone or laptop to send music to Alexa is a very nice way to enjoy music on Amazon’s speaker without having to stream music from Amazon’s services. 🙂 Top Search Terms:alexa commands (48)alexa bluetooth (40)alexa bluetooth commands (20)alexa command list (14)alexa device (10)amazon alexa commands (5)alexa voice command (4)alexa bluetooth command (4)connect