Geek Shout

Many of these programming quotes seem born out frustration and anyone who’s involved with the software development industry can relate to at least some of these quotes.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart [...]

There’s cable management and then there’s overdoing it. Lastly, there’s no cable management at all, just yellow cables everywhere.

The best way to judge a camera is by seeing the photos it produces, and what better place to find tons of photos than Flickr? Since all cameras stamp their make and model to the JPEG files they produce, and Flickr gathers this information, they recently started organizing pictures by camera model. You can find [...]

Apple and Google have been going at it for the past few years, more so than Microsoft and Apple or Microsoft and Google. Starting from the iPhone and ending with the iPad, the rivalry between the two companies is seen to benefit the consumers. The free economy at its best.

Turns out Windows 7 can turn you into God by enabling something called GodMode. Bill has decided to give you a taste of his power with this little trick for Windows 7. The obligatory GodMode joking aside, enabling this won’t give you more control over the operating system than you already have, but it will [...]

A recent survey says that 90% of Americans are tired of the bullshit customer service robots that pick up the toll-free lines, anywhere from AT&T to Verizon. Sometimes it takes going through 9 different options before finding out the number to press to get to a customer support representative, other times you need to go [...]

The infamous “Cannot open this item. Outlook has already begun transmitting this message.” error is very common to frequent users of Outlook. During the Send/Receive process emails often get stuck in your Outbox and won’t get sent no matter how many times you run the Send/Receive process. Opening or deleting the message is not possible [...]

Browse around the web for a couple of hours and you’ll end up on a site that requires you to log in before you get to see some of their content. Many times registering is free but by the time you know it, they’re asking you of diseases in your family history, then they send [...]

The next time your cousin that graduated the hair stylist school asks you how the Internet works, reference them this comic:

Chances are you’ve had problems deleting a file before, particularly video files in older versions of Windows. The error message looks something like this:
Cannot delete [file]: It is being used by another person or program.
Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.
Or maybe you’ve had an application such as uTorrent [...]