Symptom(s): Your Macbook Pro or Macbook Air laptop is overheating and is hot to the touch. Your operating system begins to show signs of slowness and becomes sluggish over time. Resolution: The default fan control settings on the macbook are set to where it activates when it reaches a certain CPU temperature. To maximize battery […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
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Symptom(s): You installed an application in Mac OSX, but unable to launch or open it. This message appears when you do: “NameOfApp.app” can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. Your security preference allow installation of only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers. An example of this type of […]
Symptom(s): Upon boot-up, a message “Floppy Diskette Seek Failure” of “Diskette Drive 0 seek failure” error appears and the computer won’t load your operating system until you interact with the keyboard. Resolution: 1. Reboot PC and press the “F2” key to go into the bios SETUP. 2. Arrow down to DRIVES and press Enter. 3. Arrow down […]
Ever wanted to display Facebook’s Likes, Shares, or Comments just as a numerical counter? Well now you can with this simple PHP tutorial. With Facebook’s Legacy FQL API: <?php //The following code returns number of likes, shares, and comments for any Facebook page. function facebook_count($url) { // Query in FQL $fql = "SELECT share_count, like_count, […]
Symptoms: Windows computer is horribly sluggish and unable to do anything. Checking task manager shows over 10+ “dllhost.exe” or “dllhost.exe *32 COM Surrogate, CPU at 100% commit, with ram hitting its limit. Restarting the computer into safe mode shows the same issue and computer is slow to respond. Other common programs started by Poweliks include: – dllhst3g […]
If your a Computer Technician using LogMeIn Rescue (LMIR) console, you know that when working on client’s computers and laptops that Window’s User Account Control (UAC) is a very annoying restriction. It disallows you to work on the client’s computer remotely without their active engagement and confirmation of executing programs on the client’s end. Most of […]