I happen to own what I consider to be quite a decent Hewlett Packard Notebook. One of the features I love to flaunt about my computer is the onboard WWAN card; this allows me to easily connect to Safaricom or any mobile data network without having to stick a USB dongle into one of my few ports. I really wonder why this feature has not caught on in mainstream notebooks yet. Anyhow, other cool specifications of my computer include a really large hard disk, a fast processor, tones of memory and nice speakers. It could do with a better graphics card but I suppose one cannot have it all.

Now with such a good machine, one would be surprised to find out that it could not run a 64bit guest operating system because the virtualization features of the processor are disabled by default in the computer’s Basic Input Output System(BIOS). A simple solution to this problem would be to go to the BIOS and enable the processor’s virtualization features; I mean, it should be a simple toggle setting – either enabled or not. Well, lets just say that it is NOT that simple, and thus the point of this post.

Yeah, I know. The title is a bit funny but, I suppose that is what hobby blogging is all about. And I have chosen to use this platform to inform about things that many people have no idea their browsers can do. FYI, your browser is quite an important application on your system – more important than your word processor if you ask me. Seeing as nowadays a computer without a connection to the net is much like a fountain pen without ink, read on and learn just why you should think twice before buying a netbook with an Atom processor just because it is cheap, small and cute. I own a netbook and I simply cant do too much on it because it really cant handle my browsing. It can surprisingly handle my word processing though, quite well! Now, moving on to the meat of the matter.

Of late, for one reason or another, my burner is not writing discs properly. Now, while I chill to take the machine in because that is definitely a warranty issue, I needed to urgently fix my older laptop which I knew had hard disc issues and required to be ‘Spinrited’ – if you don’t mind the invention of the word. Anyhow, long and short of it is that if I required the services of DynaStat Data Recovery and I could not burn discs, then my flash drive would have to do. Not suprisingly, it is not the simplest thing to do, getting a flash disc to boot so here goes some tips on how to do so in Linux and Windows

Adding a Facebook Like Box on a website is kind of becoming the norm in my trade nowadays. I do not know about you but I am normally having trouble getting rid of the borders or the iframe that you require. These borders normally have a bad look in a rounded corners styled module in Joomla! and other popular content management systems.

This tutorial will show you how to hide the border around the Facebook Like Box. It takes advantage of negative margins and the overflow property of CSS to hide the border of the Facebook Like Box under a container div.

[UPDATE]

I compiled below changes into an easily installable Joomla module. So, find below a download link to the module for Joomla 1.7/2.5

Download JA Facebook Like Box Module with Remove Border Tweaks

For some reason, linking to an article in Joomla! seems like something that should be obvious but surprisingly it is not. I have been approached quite a number of times to help people link their Custom HTML modules to an article in Joomla! and normally the trouble comes in when for whatever reason, the article to be linked does not have a menu item on the front end of the site, so one cannot go and copy the article link. I did some research, trying to find easy ways of doing this said linking, and I have come up with some two solutions, which I think should work for anybody in this predicament. So, here we go.

So today, via Facebook, I land on a great Andriod app! PesaDroid! Well, all it does is give you a nice view of all your M-Pesa transactions, taking data form the messages on the phone. I have no doubt that the developers of the app worked quite hard on it and it is a wonderful app but my God, their website! Pesadroid.com is not a site to visit. It has put a new benchmark on just how crappy a site can be. I mean, these guys should have just stuck to giving people the android market link coz at least there, they can leverage the look of the marketplace. Their one page site is just something that should be taken off the net! Like immediately! Trust me, if I had seen their site before installing the app, I would not have installed it coz their site is just a joke!