Search engines have been around for almost as long as the internet itself. Yet many of us still do not know how to use a search engine properly. There have been so many advances in search engine technology since the standard ‘keyword’ search from the AOL dialup days. Google, the king of the search engines has integrated many advanced features right into their search bar that can give us instant access to a lot of useful information, but many of us aren’t aware, or don’t know how to take advantage of it. Here we will cover a few  of the coolest tips and tricks you can use to pull information you need in a split second.

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 Here is an easy guide that shows your how to change the voltage of your case fans from the default 12 volts to a lesser 5 volts which allows your fans to spin at a much lower speed, resulting in much less noise from your computer. Obviously this reduces the ability of the fans to cool as well, but most of the times doing this makes sense when your computer already has more than adequate cooling.

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Well, one of this website’s articles got accepted at slashdot, hardocp, and digg. I would like to extend appreciation to those sources. We have now gotten 30,000 hits in the past 12 hours! Congratulations eXoid. Luckily the day before this all happened, I moved the sites content from my homemade server at home to a professional host, and just in time too! My homeade server could NEVER have handled all that traffic.

To all newcomers.. Welcome to eXoid. This website is in its infancy, but we have big plans for it. I encourage you to bookmark this site, or subscribe to our RSS feed, and most of all.. come back soon. We plan on releasing many articles, stories and tips to help you utilize your computer more efficiently, have more fun, save money, and in general… Tweak your Life.

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How to Utilize S3 Standby and Still Have ‘Always On’ Access to Your Computer or Networked Drives
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Because of increasing awareness in the general public about energy conservation, the ability to utilize low power states on desktop PCs is incredibly underdocumented and widely unused. My goal with this article is to change all that, to help computer users everywhere utilize these low power states without losing any original functionality of their network drives or remote applications. Heck, if you follow this guide, you may even be able to save a buck or two in the process. This guide will attempt to answer the following………….

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After working out our hosting situation, the forums are now up and running. Come on in and say hi, and start off the forums right.
Access the new forums here: eXoid.com Forums

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I recently competed in a video review contest on firingsquad.com
Here is my submission, an evaluation of the Nvidia DualTV Tuner Card:

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I have posted an update to my silent HTPC project page. Go on, take a look at the freshly completed system. It runs great, read how I tackled CPU and GPU heat on the project page:

Project Update: Silent HTPC

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I recently had a problem when I setup my HTPC (home theatre PC). The problem was that I could not for the life of me get a DVD to display on my media center machine. Ocassionally the menu would show, but then when I attempted to hit play, I was receiving a strange error. ? It gave me the error:

Cannot Play DVD

The DVD may be in use by another application. If all other applications are closed, the display resolution may need to be lowered or the display connection type may not support playback of the DVD. For more information, please go to Help.

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At first I decided that I had a bad DVD-ROM drive, because DVDs that I had ripped to the computer were playing just fine. But after flashing my Sony DRU-540A to the latest firmware, and seeing the same results, I decided that it possibly was something else. After searching online and not getting many results I thought back to the original error:

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(The display connection type may not support playback of the DVD.)

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I realized that these problems started happening when I got a new projector that used component cables…..

Here is the workaround for this problem.

If you set your video card to send a 546p or 480p HDTV resolution rather than a 720P or 1080i Resolution, (or just use a VGA cable rather than the component) then your dvd’s will display properly. Another alternative is to rip your DVD to your hard drive first and then it will play just fine over the 720p or 1080i signal. Don’t ask me why this is. I believe it is most likely related to the decryption that takes place when ripping the dvd to the hard drive.

So there you have it, another battle won over Media Center. depo medrol and kenelog

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I am working on a new project. My goal? was to create a home theatre PC that is completely silent. This computer will be sitting in the living room, and I want it to be able to handle all my computing needs,? watching TV, email, writing papers? (in addition to ? hosting this webpage as well). See how I built a non-intrusive system for my living room, and the? steps? I had to take to get everything working right.

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Click below to see the Project Log
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Hello!
This is my first post on eXoid. Let me introduce myself. I am Cameron Butterfield, known on the web as “cbutters”. I always am a technology fanatic, and it seems I am always finding interesting things, hardware, tweaks, hacks, mods, or other things on the web, or just in general. Many times I feel like sharing what I have found out with others. I hope this webblog/ website can be a good repository of tweaks hacks and mods that can help others out. Stay tuned for more updates.

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