tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17138411430760620482012-01-28T16:51:59.350+08:00The Official Saved Content BlogJohn Almirantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17684600314278557559noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1713841143076062048.post-83897757457898023982012-01-28T16:51:00.001+08:002012-01-28T16:51:59.366+08:00

I used to be so obsessed with Anime - back in the day, back before my kids were born, back when it was hot, when it was still on primetime, when all TV stations had schedules filled with them. That was just before the arrival of full time anime cable channels. I think the last anime I really followed was Bubblegum Crisis 2040 on free TV. Oddly, after the two anime cable channels appeared, I

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I was looking for USB powered PC speakers for quite a while since I didn't have any good speakers for my desktop PC.  We were just using earphones or headphones instead.  For some time, I was eyeing these $4 speakers at CDR-King, but I put off buying them until I was absolutely certain that I really needed them.  With our tough cash flow situation, it wasn't easy to justify spending for USB

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I recently made another purchase at TipidPC.com (TPC) and this made me take a look back at my past transaction history.  It seems that I haven't been making many deals over the past 6 years.  In my first two years of buying and selling through TPC, I received feedback ratings for 44 transactions.  On the other hand, for the past 6 years, I've only had 9 deals that were represented by feedbacks. 

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The Humble FrozenByte Bundle offer is winding down.  The Humble Bundle is a pay-what-you-want sale of several games for a limited-time, with part of the proceeds going to charity.  This is the 3rd Humble Bundle.  The 1st Humble Indie Bundle, offered in May of 2010, included games from 6 independent game developers and brought in $1.2 million.  I paid $7.60 for the 6 games.  The 2nd Humble Indie

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Moving Windows XP to a virtual machine or a physical machine (a PC or laptop) with a different hardware configuration can cause XP to experience a blue screen upon startup.  A BSOD with a Stop 0x0000007E error code means an incompatible CPU while an incompatible hard disk controller will result in BSOD with a Stop 0x0000007B error code . Before moving Windows XP to a new or different hardware

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My Desktop/Storage PC went down during a power outage.  After power was restored, I found that I couldn't surf the Internet.  I checked the LAN interface in Network Connections and found that it didn't have any TCP/IP values.  Usually, they have at least 0.0.0.0 as its IP and Subnet Mask but in this case, it was just blank. I tried disabling and repairing the LAN network connection but its TCP/

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Almost every improvement in mouse technology has rendered older generation mice obsolete. Eventually we stop using the older mice because the newer ones are so much better. That hasn't been the case with USB optical mice since there hasn't been any sign that a new mouse innovation is on its way to replace this older mouse technology. I'm bringing up the history of advancements in mouse

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The Automatic Voltage Regulators or AVRs that I use for my high-value personal electronic entertainment appliances are comparably highly priced and heavy. My reason for choosing Avacus AVRs is because of their simple good looks, slim design, their single 110v and multiple 220v outlets, and their quality which is evidenced by their heavy weight. I only trust my high priced electronic items with

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We dropped by HMR a few weeks ago to see if there were any new and interesting items. We found a brand new analog desktop radio with a faux wood finish that had an old style look but was still a modern product. It really looked good and only cost around $17. It was made by Jensen and used 220V. Since it was cheap, good looking, and didn't need a transformer, we decided to buy it. We previously

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As part of its 6th year anniversary sale, Direct2Drive has King's Bounty: Armored Princess for only $6, down from $35. It's predecessor, King's Bounty was critically acclaimed and Armored Princess itself was well received.  It has a good degree of replayability and it was reviewed as addictive and I like the fact that your character is a woman, however, it will not work with a GMA 950 graphics

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Continued from Part 1: How I Found Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, the Asian version for the XBOX 360 After I found Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box at Data Blitz at Park Square, I decided to buy it.  I waited a few days before I went back to Data Blitz the day before the start of the Holy Week break. I looked for the game and it was still there on the shelf. I brought it to the cash

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I had been looking to buy online, the Asian version of Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box, but I was somewhat hesitant due to the combination of the prices and because I didn't know if it would play on my U.S. XBOX 360. I couldn't take the risk because I couldn't afford it. Through a series of fortunate decisions and occurences, I was able to find the game locally and at a cheaper price. Even

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Preparing to move our stuff to the new house, I just found out that the packing box containing my Yamato Macross 1/48 Low-Visibility VF-1A Valkyrie was partially eaten by termites.  The front of the box of the low-viz valk was a flip-up front lid and it was eaten away.  Luckily, the termites weren't able to eat deeper into the box because of the plastic display window behind the flip top front

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Citrixxperience, a respectable and well regarded provider of study materials for Citrix certification, is now offering all of its incredibly useful study guides and most of its excellent sample exams for free.  Previously, you could only get their products if you bought them.  Even with a price tag, these study materials were worth it and now you can get them for free. 2-3 years ago, I was

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On April 15, 2010, Microsoft discontinued XBOX Live support for the original XBOX (aka XBOX1).  After April 15, owners of XBOX1 games will no longer be able to download XBOX DLC and XBOX game patches from either the XBOX 360 or the old XBOX. They also won't be able to play online multiplayer gaming sessions anymore.  XBOX 360 games will not be affected and users playing these XBOX 360 games may

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When I first got my Jasper XBOX 360 with 512mb internal memory, I discovered that the capacity of the internal memory unit was actually 451mb with 323mb free space left.  After my first system update without the hard disk attached, I found that the free space remaining went down to 225mb or around half of the internal memory capacity. I expected this to dwindle further after the latest system

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I found that the display resolution, while in Safe Mode on my Windows XP computer, was not supported by an older monitor I switched to. After some research and troubleshooting, I was able to change the Safe Mode screen resolution by searching for the registry values "DefaultSettings.XResolution" and "DefaultSettings.YResolution" and changing the DWORD data. Some time ago, I was planning on

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Yesterday was October 26, 2009 and this was supposed to be the last day that my GeoCities site will be accessible because, today, GeoCities will be closing forever.  I'd been gearing up for this day ever since I first read about GeoCities' impending closure around June of this year. It was extremely disturbing for me since, not only was my GeoCities site ranked highly for a few search terms in

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I sometimes wonder why, of all the WRT54G router models my family could have gotten as our home broadband router, we ended up with the only version that used an Atheros chipset that is unsupported by any alternative firmware - DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato, etc., instead of the more common Broadcom chipset which is widely supported.  Not only does it limit the possibilities we could eventually perform

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We've been having issues with our router and/or shared broadband connection here at home for the past few days.  My first thought was that P2P downloading from two machines on our home network were eating up bandwidth and causing the browsing slowdown or connection failures on other machines.  A symptom of this would be the inability to connect to the web admin interface of the router.  In the

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It's the 1st of September, 2009 and I've just completed the Saved Content homepage and setup my first blog, The Official Saved Content Blog, which will soon be hosted at blog.savedcontent.com, after DNS changes have been replicated.  Right now, it's hosted at savedcontent.blogspot.com.    I am offically starting to push the Saved Content website and the Saved Content Blog during a turbulent time

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