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Mouse Mat compatability problems

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:57:32 +0000

It’s a common myth that any old mouse mat will do but most of the input device issues reported to us can be traced to an incompatible mouse mat. A whole range of problems are caused by incompatible mouse mats the most frequently reported being:

Hardcore Pornography images randomly placing themselves in your temporary internet files directory
Being shit at online games
Right and left clicks alternating
Mouse tremble

So next time you’re buying a mouse mat make sure it’s compatible with the mouse you use.

Video Technical Support Question

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:52:33 +0000

Sometimes explaining a technical support issue over the phone or via email can be difficult and for this reason we’ve started inviting people to post their technical support requests with video. It enables us to make a quicker diagnosis of the issue allowing the user to get back to their day-to-day PC routine such as, super poking people you vaguely know from the past on Facebook, watching endless hours of crap on Youtube and reading worthless dribble on blogs like this.

Our first video technical support question comes from SpaceHunk95@yahoo.cock who asks;

Click here to view the embedded video.

Basically, SpaceHunk95@yahoo.cock is asking,

“I’ve taken my PC to bits and spread it out over the table, turned it on and stuck a pen nib across two of the motherboard electro conductive tally whackers and all it does is make a continuous beeping noise. What should I do?”

Well SpaceHunk95@yahoo.cock, turn it off, put it all back together and stop f*@king about with it, surely you can find better things to do? Nice Spoktech 520 PSU though brother, I bet that packs a real punch!

Part I “My Icons Have Fallen Off My Desktop, What do I do?”

admin — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:50:40 +0000

As well as reviewing hardware and software we’ll also be answering your technical support questions and our first one comes from Sue Anderson from Nottingham. Sue writes,

“Recently we moved from Stoke-on-Trent to Birmingham because my husband who is a struggling street entertainer felt that the larger population of Birmingham should mean a tenfold increase in his weekly wage. Unfortunately that has not turned out to be the case and it appears that the people of Birmingham have not warmed to my husbands unique brand of street entertainment in which he combines the ancient Japanese art of paper folding (Origami), juggling and freestyle jazz dance. In his defense I would add that the weather conditions in Birmingham are not conducive to an optimum performance of this rare art form.

On the day of our move we carefully packed our much loved PC in a box and placed it in the back of our car. We were very careful and wrapped the PC and monitor in bubble wrap. Placing them in boxes we then packed soft cushions around the boxes to further aid their protection.

Imagine our dismay when we arrived in Birmingham and after unpacking and reconnecting our PC hardware we discovered the icons on our desktop had fallen off somewhere in transit. We’ve search the boxes we packed the PC in and even the back of the car but we can’t find them anywhere.

What should we do? Is there anywhere we can buy spare desktop icons to replace the ones we’ve lost?”

Well Sue, first of all let me assure you, you’re not alone. If I were to collect all the desktop icons lost in transport during an unspecified given period I’d have enough desktop icons to fill a receptacle of unspecified proportions and that’s no small amount let me tell you. Before moving the PC you should have either installed Shytechs Perma Desktop Icon Patch or have taken a screenshot of your desktop and set that as your desktop wallpaper. Unfortunately your only course of action now is to completely reformat your hard drive and reinstall all your software over again. During the installation of each piece of software you’ll be asked if you would like to place a shortcut icon on your desktop, answer yes to replace the desktop icons you lost during transit. I hope that helps Sue, be more careful next time. Anyone with any sense knows that moving a PC can cause this sort of shit to happen, you’re obviously a bit of an idiot.