Category: Tips

The DayTek LCD TV from hell

This is the story about my worst experience yet with a TV. I’m not gonna lie, I’m a thrifter. If I see something for cheap where I’d normally spend more, I’ll get it for cheap. Was it because i grew up fixing and not just spending money making your problems go away? I don’t know….


Samsung Galaxy S5 and my issues with it

Hi all, I have acquired a Samsung Galaxy S5 recently and after getting it unlocked and cleaned up, I ran into a few issues while attempting to use a custom firmware (Cyanogenmod 13), namely: No way to access the legacy menu key WEBm files cause the mediaserver thumbnail service to fail Visualization in the music player is…


Dell Latitude CP-i A series & NeoMagic 2200 MIDI Woes

Hello lovelies! After finding a Dell Pentium II Laptop at a Talize store, I proceeded to order a power supply for it so I could start playing with it. First thing I did, was replace its internal hard drive with another one of mine, and completely wiping the one it came with ( I don’t…


[JS] Quick function to check if an object is empty

Checking for an empty object in Javascript is doable, but rather interesting. See, I’m used to EXT Js having everything built in, but that isn’t always the case. For example, we have Ext.isEmpty, but in version 5, it doesn’t know any better, it basically only checks for strings and numbers (Possibly NaNs and what have…


How to fix W3TC not re-minifying your CSS after a change (Only applicable if you use memcache!)

I’ve been minifying my blog and one thing i ran into was the fact that W3TC kept using the same minified CSS file (Even after installing YUI compressor, changing compressor, changing my style.css, etc..) Then it hit me, every single time I ‘clear my cache’ it didn’t clear anything. So the culprit is probably memcache. TL;dr…