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17 Jul
2010
Posted in: Gaming, Web/Tech
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Vizio TV Lag When Playing Video Games on Xbox or Playstation

So I just bought a new Vizio 42″ LDC 1080P HDTV, and hooked my xbox 360 up to it last night. I couldn’t wait to see how the picture quality had changed from having my old projection tv which was only 1080i to this new one! So I popped in my favorite game Halo 3 and hopped online to play a couple games.  Right away i noticed something was wrong.  It was extremely difficult to kill anyone.  It was like someone else was controlling the game for me.  I coudn’t figure out what was going on at first, but then it hit me.  The response time from the games controller was about a half sec later to display on the TV.  This made it damn near impossible to kill any of the opposing players.  My aim was always a half second behind where the enemy was moving.  This was getting so frustrating and made me not even want to play the game.  I knew there had to be some kind of setting to fix this though.

How to fix Vizio TV Lag from your Gaming System (Xbox or PLaystation)
All you need to do to fix this problem on is change one little setting in the Video settings on your tv.  This may be different for every TV, but in mine its just switchig a setting called “Fast Response.”  By default this is off, so the response time from your games controller to the tv lags a little.  So for a Vizio tv, just go to Menu – Picture – More – Fast Response, and turn the Fast Response to ON.  Thats all it takes!  Now plays video games on this tv is great!   What a differense it makes going from 1080i to 1080p!!

14 Jan
2010
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The Easy Way to Start Your Own Web Site

The Easy Way to Start Your Own Web Site

In this day in age, it seems like everything is online and everybody has a website. But not all websites are good. In fact over half of the websites that I visit on a day-to-day basis are downright terrible. From the look and style, to the functionality of it. Most people who start a website are doing it to promote a business or product, so they just look for the cheapest way to get their name and contact information on the web. Thinking that if someone sees their contact information on the Internet, then they will call or email if they are interested in that product or service. That is true for some of the time, but for a lot of people they won’t bother going that far. When I come across a trashy website I ask myself, “Does this company do work, or make their products as poorly as they made their website? This site looks like trash, am I going to get trash from them?” You want to promote yourself or your business in a clean, professional way.

There are lots of easy ways to do this now, without spending a lot of money! You can start a website for cheap and have it look like you spent thousands of dollars on it. There are tons of open source solutions for web design now that you can find that will help you to customize and build your own website with ease. A very good award winning content management system is Joomla.com. Joomla Website Developers give you all the tools you need to build and manage your own website, and most importantly get that clean and professional look you need!

There are tons of different tools like Joomla out there, so shop around and see which one would work best for you and your business!

6 Jan
2010
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What PayPerPost Category is the Best? What Category Makes the Most Money?

PayPerPost Question

Hey Everyone, I am pretty new to this PayPerPost program and in this poor economy, I am just trying to figure out the best way to make a few extra bucks. I have been signed up for PayPerPost for a few months now and only received a couple opportunities to write articles. Hardly enough to make any decent money.

So my question is, is there a specific category to set your account on in PayPerPost that brings in more opportunities than other categories?

And is there a specific category in PayPerPost that pays on average more than the other categories?

It looks like the categories that there are to chose form are: Business/Finance, Entertainment, Family, Food, General, Health, Marketing, Technology, and Travel.

So if any of you long time Pay Per Post’ers have any insight to which one is the best to have selected to get the most opportunities and make the most money, I would greatly appreciate it. Like most people in today’s crappy economy, we are Just Trying To Get By.

Feel free to post a comment below if you have and good information! Thanks!