Is my Nokia N82 Toxic?
I just had to know. My hand was burning after 30 minutes of surfing and this is pretty common. So I surfed over to Nokia to check. According to a 2002 Nokia Environmental Report (PDF), a phone is made out of 20% ABS-PC and 4% PC. PC = BPA and BPA messes you up bad, [...]
Read MoreWoW – the Fix
After persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict – that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did. In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under [...]
Read MoreWoW Woes
It is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch. Now when I restarted it, the News page [...]
Read MoreBEFORE You Subscribe to WoW…
Make sure you patch the game first. I did that before signing up for the Burning Crusade free trial but somehow after getting an itch to run through the Barrens again, this time I stupidly went to subscribe via Paypal BEFORE patching. I’m not worried about a whole day lost patching the game but possibly [...]
Read MoreSafety First
Truly, there is no such thing as an absolutely safe place, whether online or in real life. Just as a determined and skilled burglar can break into any residence possible, so can the most protected site be hacked, given enough time and resources. For every secure system out there, there’s a bunch of talented and [...]
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Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
