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I know it has been a while since I posted on the blog, I decided to review a website that has been pretty handy during my college dorm life. It’s called Icefilms.info It’s a website that has links to a bunch of movies, and TV shows that you can stream or download. We always watch a movie or two, when we are finished with our homework of course, and it is a great free way to spend an evening before hitting the sack. Icefilms has the latest releases including some movies still in theater such as 2012. It also has TV shows in which most are high definition quality. The quality of these streams are excellent, even when hooked up to a 42in plasma fullscreened, as we do so in the dorm rooms. The video is excellent (most of the newer movies are great, older ones aren’t too bad) to the point where it is close to DVD quality. The sound is also great when hooked up to a nice pair of speakers (we use Logitech’s Z-2200 THX certified 2.1 sound system). Icefilms does not host any of it’s content, thus making it a “legal” site. There’s a search bar for those who want to have quick and easy access but there’s also an A-Z listing of all movies for the ones who don’t know what to watch. If your on a fast connection, buffer time is about 1 minute and the movie will start playing. All you need to get started watching is Firefox with Greasemonkey Icefilms script, and DivX. After all those are installed, then you are set to watch the extended list of movies they have to offer!

Is your Firefox and Safari all of the sudden acting up and taking a good 10 seconds to “look up” the site before connecting you to it?  If so, to fix this annoying problem, open a new Terminal window, and type in:

dscacheutil -flushcache

and hit enter.  You won’t see anything in Terminal happen except it showing your username again.

If this step doesn’t work, you can add public DNS servers for your Mac to use.  I would highly suggest OpenDNS.com which provides DNS servers for the public to use.  Enter the custom DNS in Network Preferences in the System Preferences, selecting Airport (or Ethernet), click Advanced.  Click the DNS tab and enter in the new DNS IPs.

Restart Firefox or Safari and your all set!

Ever wonder when typing in high level security passwords such as bank accounts, credit card accounts, and stock accounts into Firefox that someone maybe seeing what you type? Well, don’t worry, unless you have a keylogger in your computer. A keylogger is a virus that hides in your computer and runs in the background, logging every keystroke you make. After a certain amount of keystrokes are made, they are then sent via email to the attacker, allowing the attacker to view all the keystrokes you typed in, potentially harming your important information. Read the rest of this entry »

I just recently installed Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 and the main drawbacks to installing beta versions of Firefox is that you will lose your Addons and Extension ability because those don’t support the beta versions. Although it may be a hazard for myself (running beta code), it’s been fine for me for the past week or so. It is just very annoying that I am not able to access my Addons or Extensions. This fix will help you bypass this “Incompatible” message that Firefox gives you. Read the rest of this entry »

Many people may not realize this but many image files, such as JPEGS can carry lots of personal data like the camera it was taken with, the time, the place, and other image type stuff.  If you are one of those paranoid people who do not like private information shared on the internet such as Flickr, then you can remove these things easily in Vista.  Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever downloaded something using Firefox 3 and right afterwards, Firefox starts scanning the file for any parts / viruses?  Does it take too damn long for it to scan?  Well your in it for another Firefox tip that us Firefox gurus love to use.  This tip turns of the scanning feature after the downloads and this tip will save you some time, especially after large downloads.  Click read more to find out!

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Over the years, when collecting music, your iTunes library may get out of hand, in fact, it may even be too cluttered or too messy.  Here is a tip on how you can get it to be nice and clean by deleting duplicate songs you may have in your iTunes.  This will save you room on your iPod or iPhone and will definately make your playlist much better with less clutter and no duplicates.

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Are you annoyed when you visit a site, and it has popups and automatically resizes your window to the maximum size or make it smaller? Well, you can fix this in Firefox with one simple tweak. Of course, I am a huge Firefox user and encourage anyone who is using Internet Explorer to complete the switch over to Firefox 3.

Anyways, to accomplish this tip in Firefox, there are two ways.

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The tutorial shown below is for users who is annoyed by iTunes DRM and wants to strip it off because they want to play it in other devices, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do.  Many people know you strip off the DRM of iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality (if settings are correct).  This method does the same exact thing but you will not need a CD-RW disc, a CD ROM drive, or even need to burn anything!  It’s that simple.  Let’s show you how to perform this.

We are going to be using a program called TuneClone.  TuneClone is basically a program that acts as a virtual CD drive that allows you “burn” MP3 from iTunes and “rip” it.  TuneClone “lies” to your computer saying that you have a CD-RW drive that it will burn to (like Alchohol 120%).

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Finally!  If everyone else but you can login to the Steam Network, there is one very simple and easy fix.  For the longest time I couldn’t login to Steam.  I thought it was merely server side issues so I decided to play the following week.  Same thing, “Could Not Connect to Steam Network.”

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