Q.Which X220 USB port is the USB 3.0 compatible? A. It is the ‘blue’* one, the rearmost USB port located on the left side of the laptop near the fan exhaust vent. You can see a photo of the port here: The other two ‘black’ ports are regular USB 2.0 ports. *Please note only the i7 X220’s have a USB 3.0 port, the i3 and i5 models do not 🙁 If you have an X220 i3 or i5 model and
It took me a bit of key pressing to finally figure out how to control the volume on my fresh OpenELEC XBMC installation via keyboard. Eventually, I found that a default OpenELEC XBMC installation uses the + and – keys (plus and minus keys) to adjust the volume UP and volume DOWN. Hopefully this tip will save you some time and allow you to enjoy the perfect volume for your movies and TV shows 🙂 PS after my trial and error
I have two Intel NUC’s that were equipped with 16GB of RAM (2x8GB DDR SODIMMs). The little PCs were originally intended for server use where the relatively vast amount of memory would have been useful. The RAM kits were also purchased when prices were rather absurdly low (around $60-$80). Unfortunately, since then RAM prices have doubled. 🙁 These two machines never actually made it into server usage. They ended up being used around the house for a simple HTPC setup
If you have cut the cable cord or disconnected your satellite dish… never fear the internet is here! Checkout the following apps and websites to watch the SuperBowl for free online 🙂 FOX Now (free viewing on Superbowl Sunday) Here is the homepage link for the FOX Now http://www.fox.com/foxnow/ and their apps are available for a variety of devices: iPhone, iPad, Android, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Windows 8, Windows Phone Dish Anywhere (if you or a friend have
Tonight I encountered an unexpected question: my dad asked me if I had any experience with hearing aid apps for phones. I had to tell him that I didn’t even know such things existed! After a bit of thought and research it became quite obvious that such apps would be quite useful. Unfortunately, most Android app suffer from a plethora of issues that prevent them from actually being very useful for the hearing impaired 🙁 However, there are a few
I have been investigating the best way to have Amazon’s Android MP3 player store music downloads on a MicroSD card (instead of internal storage). So far reports are somewhat conflicting… I hope to have some better, and definitive, news to report soon! Amazon MP3 won’t save music files to SD Cardhttp://androidforums.com/incredible-support-troubleshooting/250489-amazon-mp3-wont-save-music-files-sd-card.htmlWhen the HTC Incredible was first launched, it did not include the Amazon MP3 app. However, I was able to find it on the web and install it. At that
atikmpag.sys BSOD Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: 116 BCP1: FFFFFA80129C14E0 BCP2: FFFFF8800980ACE0 BCP3: 0000000000000000 BCP4: 000000000000000D OS Version: 6_1_7601 Service Pack: 1_0 Product: 256_1 Files that help describe the problem: C:\Windows\Minidump\120213-9266-01.dmp C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-15194-0.sysdata.xml Read our privacy statement online: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409 If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline: C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt