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Advantages and Disadvantages of Jailbreaking your iPhone

by Jun 14, 2011

Apple has imposed certain limitations to their iDevices and drastically limited the customizations opportunities, therefore the impulse to jailbreak them is just hard to resist. Just think about it: a world full of possibilities, awesome apps to download, extensions, themes etc. Since every rose has its thorns, jailbreaking is not risk free, is can actually…Continue Reading

Solutions: The security certificate has expired!

Dec 20, 2010 2 Comments

The other day I received a call from a family member who kept getting “The security certificate has expired!” message in Chrome while trying to watch a Netflix video. The first thing I asked them to do was to close the browser window and try accessing the page again. They saw the same error message….Continue Reading

Solution: Cannot Burn DVD or CD When Using Remote Desktop

Aug 05, 2010 3 Comments

If you’re like me and you’ve got computers all over your house, then Remote Desktop is probably your best friend. If you have ever tried to burn a CD/DVD or decrypt a DVD you may find that you will receive an error each time the application tries to access the DVD. You can confirm this…Continue Reading

Solution: Disabled Audio Device Not Working

Mar 04, 2010 No Comments

If you are experiencing or receiving any of the messages above then follow the steps below to verify that your audio device (playback and recording) is enabled and that it is the default device used by the system.

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