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Vita Game Cards vs Playstation Store
Is there really any difference to which way you buy the game? There are several things to take into account when considering a Vita game for purchase.
How to Speed Up WordPress in Firefox
I like to use Firefox when authoring articles via Wordpress, but I experienced unexplainable slow-downs when typing in the editor. I thought that it might be Firefox’s built-in spell check, or some setting within Wordpress. Come to find out there are a few tweaks you can do to Firefox to restore the speed you once had.
Air PlayIt Streaming iPhone App Review
Air PlayIt is a free app for iPhone, iPad & iPod Touch which you to stream video and audio libraries to the devices via Wi-Fi and 3G/4G networks.
Western Digital MyPassport 1TB USB 3.0 Hard Drive
Western Digital’s MyPassport 1TB hard drive could be the answer you’re looking for. Not only does it offer a ton of storage, but comes in a small form factor and is equipped with USB 3.0 technology.
Most Read Articles of the Past Decade
While we get a lot of traffic from articles about heatsinks, cases, motherboards and other PC hardware, there are just some articles that just shoot past all of the others and really stand out. Listed here are the most popular OCModShop articles from the past decade.
Winning the 2012 Console War
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the three major console manufacturers announcing their next generations of consoles in 2012. Nintendo has already beaten their competition to the punch by announcing Wii U at this year’s E3 convention. Rather than speculate on what the consoles will and will not have I decided to look [...]
Run Hidden Power Efficiency Report in Windows 7
Computer laptops are just about everywhere, and as such today’s modern operating systems have a lot of power-saving options… some of which are hidden or are not used, like your hard drive never sleeping (we show you how to fix it here). But I digress. My point is that there are several tools available in [...]
How To Change the Shut Down Button
If you’re like me, then you rarely actually shut down your computer. Even though I have fast RAIDed SSDs that can cold-boot Windows in less than 20 seconds, I always have lots of tasks open at once to get my work done. It would be a severe pain to have to re-open all of my [...]
NZXT Sentry Mesh Fan Controller
There are all sorts of ways to tame the noisy array of fans within your PC case. Some of them are rather fancy, but have a higher learning curve. Some cases come with very basic fan rheostats that control all of your fans at once. Sometimes you want a no-nonsense direct way to control each [...]
Enable Hidden Windows Themes
Windows 7 configures a handful of themes upon initial installation, but did you know that there are several more that are not installed by default? Microsoft has set up Windows 7 to only install themes relevant to the language and location you specify during the installation script, but you can easily access and install more [...]
AcoustiFan DustProof 120mm PC Fan
We review a lot of fans and other computer cooling equipment here at OCModShop. In some ways, testing fans are quite straightforward, and in other ways they are very subjective. The noise and airflow ratio produced by any given fan changes as the blades and motor gather dust. Debris on the blades can actually chip [...]
Welcome to OCmodshop 3.0
As you point your browser to OCmodshop, you may have noticed something different… Well, it’s more of a complete overhaul. This update has been a long time coming, as I have been planning changes for over two years, and never had the balls to just get it up and going. I was worried about the [...]
Testing old server speed
I recently retired one of the hot and noisy OCMS servers, and experienced a good savings in power and heat. Even though server parts are tough and designed to last a long while, I started wondering just how fast they really are. I ran several disk benchmarks on one of the older servers, which run [...]
Retiring an OCMS Server
I’ve been running three servers for OCModShop for a long time. I thought it was a much better way to segment individual tasks for the whole site. At one point I had everything on one server: firewall, web, mail, and SQL. Not only were all of these services a severe resource hog, but if one [...]
8TB NAS – Upgrading the Primary Synology NAS Volume
Digital media is so common in today’s modern society. Even people who would not be considered “tech nerds” have many gigabytes of personal data. Be it MP3s, digital photos, eBooks, or documents, people accumulate a lot of stuff. All of today’s digital media is usually strewn all around the house in a disorganized mess. This [...]
Razer Imperator 5600dpi Gaming Mouse Review
One problem with gaming mice is that they’re usually big, heavy, and have lots of buttons. If a mouse is full-featured then is usually comes with a similarly full-featured size. Usually small and ultra-light mice are given away with laptops or are intended for office use, and thus not very powerful or useful. Gaming laptops [...]
VisionTek Killer HD 5770 First Look
I remember the first card nVidia ever put out.. the NV1, which was a PCI video card plus an audio card plus wavetable synthesizer plus game controller board. At the time, all of these functions were handled by several different add-on cards, and certainly not via the PCI bus. That technology was way ahead of its time, [...]
How to make it as a gaming journalist
Have you ever thought about having a career in the video games industry? Some might think that it’s all glamorous, but the panelists at PAX10′s Movin’ on Up: How to Make It (Or Not) in Videogames Journalism will tell you that it’s a lot of work, with a little bit of luck mixed in. Many [...]
Hacking the Mio C220 GPS
I’ve never owned a pocket knife. I discovered long ago when my grandfather gave me my first Coleman multi-tool that a simple blade that tucks into its own handle is nothing compared to a nice multi-tool with screwdrivers, blades, saws, ect… So when I bought my Mio C220 GPS unit for my geocaching hobby, I [...]
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