Alienware M11x Driver Issue Rant mixed with “Just Cause 2″ fatal directx fix

Rant Video with Explanation: Here is the driver fix: Drivers From Nvidia’s website. NVIDIA DRIVERS 258.96 WHQL This is the modded INF file that will trick the drivers into working for our alienware. nvdm.zip 1. Download and save both the Nvidia drivers and the inf file I posted above to your desktop. 2. Download and install Guru3D – Driver Sweeper (Setup) download from Guru3D.com 3. Go...

Ohh Noes, They Gona Wiretap My Internets!

A New York Time’s article reports that the U.S. gov. wants to make it easier to “tap” into internet activities of potential suspects. This would include internet from your ISP as well as cell phone internet. “Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal...

With Sex Ads Banned, Will Craigslist.com Start Charging For Other Posts?

Craigslist will lose a projected $44,000,000 due to having closed down a section for sex advertisements. At 10$ a post, this was a big source of income for the company. Craiglist charges for posts in other sections such as real estate and job ads, but for the most part everything else has been free. New York Times, “Though federal law protects Craigslist against liability for what its users...

Primal.com – A Unique Tool That Helps Expand Your Ideas

Primal.com is a little hard to explain. It’s a thought organizer, search engine, brain stormer, and more. Using this site to expand on ideas is actually pretty fun. Primal’s mission statement: “Primal is addressing a core problem with the Internet: our ability to create information has far exceeded our ability to easily manage and consume it. The world is drowning in information,...

HP Doesn’t Support It’s Older Products.

In the E-Reads office, we have a graveyard of laser jet printers. Do they power on? Yes. Do they still function? Yes. Do you have toner for them? Yes. Do they work with windows 7? No. HP has a list of printers they no longer support: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=120&prodSeriesId=3463669&prodTypeId=18972&objectID=c01856597 Be...

Google’s New Instant Search May Hurt Businesses Using Google’s Adwords.

Google announced “google instant” yesterday, letting the world know that there will be a big change to the popular search engine. It seems to work similarly to the auto-complete function that bing and yahoo use but instead of keyword suggestions it actually displays results. New York Times writer, Claire Cain Miller, had this to say: “Google’s attempt to greatly change the way...

Easy Truncable Text using Jquery

This code will allow users to hide / extent text inside of a paragraph tag. This can be easily used with PHP or MySQL. An Example of this in action can be found at ereads.com on any book with a sample chapter. ( Example Here ) First We have to create the JS file. Copy and save the following as “jquery.truncatable.js”: (function($){$.fn.truncatable=function(options){var defaults={limit:100,more:’…’,less:false,hideText:’[read...