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How to reduce the hard drive space Spotify uses

Brian — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:45:51 +0000

Spotify uses too much hard drive storage space. They cache most of your songs, and use upwards of 1gb of drive space. They do this only to reduce bandwidth to their servers. If you have an enormous hard drive, this isn’t as big of a deal (though I still don’t like when programs use more … Read more →

s3slider is not a function – Troubleshooting s3Slider Errors

i.nconspicuo.us — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:20:11 +0000

I was recently updating a site that was using the s3Slider jQuery library, when I noticed it had stopped working, and I was constantly receiving the javascript error: s3slider is not a function Upon doing a little research, I realized that this was a fairly common problem that quite a few people had run into, … Read more →

Mac OS X Lion Crashes When Using Google Chrome

i.nconspicuo.us — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:10:09 +0000

I recently started encountering a problem with OS X Lion. I’m running a pretty sick Hackintosh setup that has always operated without problem. Then recently, out of nowhere, Google Chrome has suddenly started to cause my computer to crash. I get the gray screen prompting me to reboot my computer. Upon rebooting, if I open … Read more →

Syncing to iTunes – Difference Between Syncing and Syncing

i.nconspicuo.us — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:45:19 +0000

So I’m not sure why this is, but I had previously updated my iTunes libraries to “match” so that I could sync my iPhone to 3 of my computers – my laptop, my home office and my office computer. It worked fine, but with the release of iTunes 10, Apple has apparently nixed this and … Read more →

Best iOS 5 Shortcuts – Opening to Proper App from Lock Screen

i.nconspicuo.us — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:11:06 +0000

This is one of my favorite new features of iOS 5 (I’m easily amused). But all joking aside, this feature is very handy, especially when you leave your phone for a couple hours and it gets bombarded with texts, twitter updates, calendar notifications, etc. Regardless of what is on the lock screen, you can simply … Read more →

iPhoto ’11 Large Triangle with Exclamation Point

i.nconspicuo.us — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:04:53 +0000

I recently updgraded my Hackintosh due to a hard drive failure and decided I’d start using Apple software to manage and maintain all of my digital files (pictures/music/videos). My main reason for this was the ease of use, simplicity yet powerful features that iMovie offered. So naturally, iMovie was the first program that I began … Read more →

iTunes Keeps Opening Automatically in Windows 7

i.nconspicuo.us — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:32:21 +0000

I recently updated to iTunes 10.5 here at my office and for some reason, iTunes has decided that it ALWAYS needs to be open. iTunes now opens when I boot up my computer. Upon closing it, iTunes will re-open itself within 1-5 minutes. Seems to be very random. This will happen continuously. As many times … Read more →

Notification System for New Albums and Concert Performances from Artists You Like

Brian — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 04:31:22 +0000

I have so many apps, programs, websites, tools, etc etc that I use related to music (I listed them out below). But I’m still missing a functionality I really want… and that is: a notification system when an artist I follow is about to release new material, or is about to perform in my area! … Read more →

Symbolic Links Not Working in OS X Lion

i.nconspicuo.us — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:46:03 +0000

I used to use symbolic links within Mac OS X Snow Leopard to point a few of the folders in my home directory to an external hard disk that I share with my PC (Music, Documents, Movies). Upon updating to OS X Lion, the Symbolic Links no longer work – they now show up as … Read more →

The best Windows PC laptop alternative to a Macbook Air

Brian — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:58:43 +0000

For the past year or so, I’ve been doing work on an Asus 1000HE EeePC. Well, its no longer “working” for me. Don’t get me wrong… it’s a great little netbook.. probably one of the best made still to this day. It’s got excellent battery life, pretty quick, lightweight, and very small. But as a … Read more →

Building a Hackintosh (PC-based Macintosh) in May 2011

i.nconspicuo.us — Tue, 24 May 2011 05:35:00 +0000

After being a PC owner and user for most of my life, I recently purchased a Mac laptop which I love. Mac makes some amazing software for picture/video editing and management. So due to the fact that I don’t store all my media on my laptop, I have decided to build a Hackintosh – CustoMac … Read more →

Osama Bin Laden Dead – Seal Team Six Photo Evidence – Real or Fake

i.nconspicuo.us — Wed, 04 May 2011 03:59:34 +0000

Well, as could be expected, a photo of Osama Bin Laden dead has been leaked and has been being spread around the internet for much of today. As much as we all wanted to see Bin Laden dead, it was only a matter of time before someone out there began creating fakes. Well, below is … Read more →

The Simplest Way to Accept Money – The Square iPhone Dongle

i.nconspicuo.us — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:12:37 +0000

This is great! If you’re the type of business owner that frequents trade shows, or travels, or needs to be able to accept money on the fly, you need to check out Square! This isn’t a paid advertisement, or post, I just came across the Square website while browsing for payment options and thought this … Read more →

Firefox 4 – Increase the Width of the Active Tab in Firefox 4

i.nconspicuo.us — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:40:19 +0000

Though many people are complaining about the new version of Firefox, there is a lot of good that has come out of it. One of the things that happened was the tabs have been moved to the top of the screen. This makes for much more screen real estate, but the downfall is that we … Read more →

GMC_Util is not defined – chrome://goobox/content/connection.js

i.nconspicuo.us — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 18:47:23 +0000

I’ve recently been getting a ton of errors in the console within Firefox and I haven’t been able to figure out the cause. For some reason, chrome is telling me that GMC_Util is not defined, when in fact it is and is being referenced in other places within the same JS file.