Category Archives: Random Bits

Random thoughts & information from our Web guru

iPhone voice memos not syncing in iTunes

I recently came across this issue and it was relatively simple to fix (for me)… Launch iTunes Delete Voice Memos (from the Playlist list on the left side). Unplug your phone Quit iTunes Re-launch iTunes after iTunes is up, connect your iPhone Click SYNC and your voice memos should sync.

NVIDIA Geforce 480 core clock drop to 405mhz v270.61 v275.33 CUDA

We participate in the BOINC CUDA project to use idle CPU and GPU time for scientific research purposes. We recently updated to the newest NVIDIA drivers for Windows 7 x64 which are version 270.61. After doing this we noticed the core clock on our NVIDIA Geforce 480 would drop from a standard or overclocked speed, [...]

ASUS G73 G73jh ATI 5870 GSOD Grey Screen of Death – FIX

One of the computers in our office is an ASUS G73jh which is a powerful laptop we use for testing sites and on-location visits to clients. We usually keep the very latest Windows 7 updates and ATI video card drivers (11.4) on the machine. Recently we noticed the machine locking up after a few minutes [...]

reCAPTCHA in SSL – Changes coming – update your code

Important news for developers using reCAPTCHA on your sites. If you are currently using http://api.recaptcha.net/challenge?k=XXXX and you need to implement reCAPTCHA on an SSL protected page — you need to switch the links to https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/challenge?k=XXXYYYZZZ.   Per Google, this change went into effect April 2011. For more information, read this page  

The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period

This is a brand new issue that I just came across while working on my new workstation, which has a 120gb OCZ Vertex 3 SATA 6.0 SSD drive as the primary boot drive into port #1 of the SATA 6.0 channel, running on a ASUS Maximus Extreme IV rev B3 motherboard running Windows 7 x64 [...]

Navigation bar missing from web site made in Publisher

Recently we were hired to fix two web sites that were designed in Microsoft Publisher and then output as HTML and uploaded to a server for a local business.  The problem is that since IE 8 came out (March 2009), both of these web sites – for anyone using Internet Explorer 8 (even using compatibility [...]

Server name does not show up under Network

I recently came across this problem where one of our servers would not show up in the “browse list” under the “Network” icon in Windows 7.  I also checked this same issue from other computers Network Neighborhoods and verified it was just this one server “webserver6″ which was not showing up.  We are in a [...]

Windows 7 to Windows XP “Access is denied” home office LAN networking issues

Are you having problems getting your home office LAN, with varying computers between Windows 7 and Windows XP to properly share files? Here are a few quick tips & tricks to solve your issues (these are at a high level, so if you don’t understand these, ask a friend to assist you). These tips presume [...]

New windows in Internet Explorer opening not full screen

Is Internet Explorer driving you nuts by opening up in a smaller window, offset from center on your screen, when it should be opening full-screen? Yes, this is a really annoying “feature” in IE, and it is not easy to figure out how to get IE to stop opening windows in this small mode. This [...]

Getting your old Logitech webcam videos working on Windows 7 x64

So, do you have old AVI videos from an old USB or Parallel Logitech web cam? I did, and I happened across them recently – but they won’t play in Windows 7 because the CODEC’s cannot be found. These videos dated to around 1998 and I wanted to watch them, however I could not figure [...]