The Best Houston Haunted House 2011

Oct 4, 2011 by Paul White

If you and your friends are planning to visit any of the haunted houses this year, then I highly recommend you checkout Terror Dome Houston Haunted House.  They will scare you at every corner.  The best part is unlike the other haunted houses which were basically a couple hallways and a chainsaw guy at the end.  Terror Dome Starts with a chainsaw guy, and it gets even better as you go through. 

Server Colocation and Cloud Hosting Houston and Dallas

Oct 4, 2011 by Paul White

If you need a datacenter to colocate your hardware, or if you need a really fast cloud, then I can't say enough good things about FastPCNetworks.  I have colocated my server with them for about 1 1/2 years.  The truth is you don't really know who you are hosting with until something goes wrong.  Its not how they treat you when everything is up and running. Its about how they treat you when things go down.  I have been with plenty of hosting companies.  Before I brought my server to FastPCNetworks, I had been on  Shared Hosting, VPS, dedicated, and cloud with some of the largest hosting companies in the world.  Eventually after dealing with terrible technical support, and some of the cheapest hardware, I decided that it was about time I build and colocate my own server.  At least that way when it goes down, I can fix it myself, instead of waiting for a ticket to make it to tech support days later.

Unplugging from Cable and Phone but keeping internet

Sep 20, 2011 by Paul White

After getting our last bill from Comcast, I decided that I really don't need Cable or Phone.  After all both my wife and I have cell phones with unlimited talk, and even though we do occasionally watch TV, the quality of entertainment in my opinion has gone to crap.  I was able to shave $80 off my Comcast Bill, by keeping the internet only and buying my own DOCSIS 3.0 modem to avoid their $7 / month rental fee.

How to root a HTC Sensation 4G and Best ROM

Sep 12, 2011 by Paul White

Now that you have an HTC Sensation 4G you might be wondering why your phone doesn't feel any faster than your old HD2.  If you want to unlock your phone's true potential for power, you have to root it then install a custom ROM.  This article should help you get this done.

Backup your Mini DV tapes to your Hard Drive

Sep 10, 2011 by Paul White

If you ever need to backup your Mini DV tapes to your hard drive and you don't want to loose any quality, there is a free program that will do the trick.  In my case I needed to backup all my mini DV tapes because I was selling my Sony HDR-HC1 HD camcorder, and would no longer have a device that could read the tapes. 

Google Adsense Ad Serving disabled to your site

Aug 29, 2011 by Paul White

To generate a little revenue from your blog or website google adsense is a great option.  But when you an email from google with the subject of "Google Adsense ad serving has been disabled to your site", you suddenly find your only source of revenue gone.

This happened to me, but I was able to appeal this and get my Adsense ads turned back on.  If you find yourself in this situation and are running borderline adult websites, here are some tips that might help you.

Reasons for new Blog Layout

Aug 26, 2011 by Paul White

When I built my blog over 6 years ago, I was just looking for a way to share my thoughts as well as maybe make a little money with google adsense.  At first I was posting to my blog daily.  Of course Adsense in the beginning doesn't pay crap.  Maybe 20 cents / day.  So after a while my motivations to post daily started to run dry.  I didn't take the blog too serious until one of my articles went viral.  When you write an article that catches on and spreads rapidly through the internet, you start to think about how things on the blog could be better.  After all when 5000 people all hit your blog in one day, you start to wonder if that little optimization you have been putting off would have maybe resulted in a few extra clicks.

Trick to getting past Gmail Spam Filters

Aug 11, 2011 by Paul White

After building a CRM system for a company, we noticed that some of our marketing emails were hitting the Gmail's Spam folder.  A little Trial and Error revealed some interesting facts about how Google's Spam Filter works.

Who picks up stray dogs in Pearland Texas

Jul 27, 2011 by Paul White

This is a question I recently had.  There was a black dog in our neighborhood that had been roaming around for a week.  Our neighbors dog had just died from heat stroke, so I made the mistake of trying to help this stray dog out, and put some food and water out for him.  I guess this won him over because since then, he decided to take up residence in front of my house and my neighbors.  I thought that maybe his owner would come looking for him, but I never saw anyone come looking for him.  So I can to find the right officials to come pick him up.

HTC Sensation 4G Chrome Polished Frame

Jul 24, 2011 by Paul White

When I used to have a an HTC HD2 one of the things I did was polish my battery cover.  As you can imagine the full aluminum frame of the HTC Sensation 4G was one of the major reasons I got this phone.  Finally I set aside a few hours to polish my Sensation 4G's frame.  The results were stunning.  I figured others may also want to do this.  So I have written a tutorial on how to polish the frame of your HTC Sensation 4G.