Archive for the 'Monkey Tech' Category

Before committing to a new 2 year contract, I wanted to be sure I could I use my new iPhone 4s in my apartment as my primary phone. Testing and fun with iMovie ensued.

It’s like a dream within a dream within a dream where you dream you’re dreaming… Or, in this case, replace “dream” with “framework.” "You created a work-around by over-riding a function to reference a function that wrapped around a function that we were over-riding? Genius!" In Inception, the movie, if you die in a dream [...]

I started to get this really annoying error every time I went to page that had a Quicktime .mov embedded in it while using FireFox: QuickTime failed to initialize. Error #0 Turning to Google (the modern equivalent of asking my dad which would usually evoke a “look in the dictionary/encyclopedia”), I found several helpful tidbits [...]

Remove My Way Search Assistant

I recently ran into “My Way Search Assistant” on a client’s computer and wanted it GONE.  However, the normal Add/Remove Programs option was a no-go as there was no button to actually press. I LOATH it when software is added without an easy way to remove it.  After much research (okay, I Googled the the [...]

Yeah, yeah, I’ve gotten really nerdy in these posts — it’s what I do to support the SIMIProject. So, I’ve finally decided to start jotting down solutions for IT problems that I’ve had to deal with. This one was a really pain in a monkey’s butt: After successfuly destroying my trusty Treo 650 after three [...]

The other day the monkeys were flinging more poo than usual. I walked up to a few of them as they were jumping around a computer screeching and banging on the screen. It seems Bongo had purchased a new iPhone and was trying to get it to sync with his Outlook 2003 calendars and contacts. [...]