If you've checked the site in the last two days, you may have already seen the new theme that 404 Tech Support is sporting. In the time since I activated the new theme I've been doing some tweaks and getting in depth with how WordPress themes work so that I could get it to behave just as I wanted. Here are some of the resources I found useful from start to finish for finding … [Read more...]
Funny Video: The Website is Down
If you are the tech savvy person that everyone calls when they have a problem or you're in IT, you might be able to empathize a little too well with the IT guy in this video. The video is painfully close to real life stupidity when it comes to technology, but it's also painfully funny. … [Read more...]
UpDown: Free Online Stock Market Game
Check out a free online stock market game at UpDown. I have another article up over at Freewaregenius giving the inside scoop on this site and what a stock exchange simulator means. You can basically think of this as Fantasy football meets the stock market. You invest virtual money and make fictional trades to turn the virtual million dollars that you start off with … [Read more...]
WolframAlpha – Finally, A Search Engine for the Mad Scientist
WolframAlpha has been generating a low-frequency buzz lately. A lot of people might have heard it's coming but still have no idea what it is. A lot of people hear that it's a new search engine, but it's more than that. Still others, have not heard about it at all. Wolfram Research, Inc., if you're wondering where you've heard that name before is the development team that … [Read more...]
Unskippable – Entertainment Out of Those Long, Boring Intro Videos
The Escapist, a popular gaming culture magazine, has a collection of features that make it very entertaining and informative in the areas of video game and sci-fi news, reviews, and everything in between. Unskippable is one of those feature I'd like to highlight. If you've ever been really excited about a video game, ran to the store to buy it, brought it back, installed it, … [Read more...]