Scott Elkin

Author: Scott

  • Blackberry Tour 9630 Scroll Wheel Broken

    I received my Blackberry Tour 9630 about 5 days ago, and almost immediately noticed that the horizontal scrolling was either laggy or didn’t work. After five days, I couldn’t scroll horizontally at all at normal sensitivity.  At 100 horizontal sensitivity, it will jump around a lot but will eventually scroll. Here is a blurry video […]

  • How To Properly Setup and Configure Godaddy DNS Settings

    If you buy domains through Godaddy, but host the website and mail somewhere else, chances are you had to edit your DNS settings. Up until a few weeks ago I had been doing it wrong.  It was working, for the most part, but some things like reverse dns lookups would fail, and strange errors would […]

  • Sprint Blackberry Tour NOT Available

    June 30, 2009: Verizon announced the Blackberry Tour would be released on July 12,2009. July 1, 2009: Sprint also announced the Tour would be available on their network the same day. July 11,2009: I called Sprint’s Telesales and asked when the Tour is coming out and when they would be in the stores and was […]

  • Starbucks Venti Iced Coffee Cup

    I walked into a Starbucks in an old Albertson’s and saw this baby sitting there for $15. Apparently they had only been there for 1 hour and they were almost sold out. I was looking for this many years ago, and the Grande sized ones were selling for almost $80 on ebay. They were discontinued […]

  • The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie

    This recipe is taken from the article, Perfection? Hint: It’s Warm and Has a Secret : Chocolate Chip Cookies Adapted from Jacques Torres Time: 45 minutes (for 1 6-cookie batch), plus at least 24 hours’ chilling Ingredients 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons (8 1/2 ounces) cake flour 1 2/3 cups (8 1/2 ounces) bread flour […]

  • Disneyland Annual Pass Chooser

    I have had to run through this question and answer list with several friends recently.  Answering these questions will determine which pass you should buy. 2009 Disneyland Annual Pass Options Premium (365 days) – $389 Deluxe (315 days) – $269 So Cal (215 days) -$174 So Cal Select (170 days) – $134 Refer to the Combined Disneyland […]

  • Disneyland Blockout Dates Calendar

    Here are all the blackout dates for all Annual Passes on one calendar. The blockout dates are additive – meaning, the Southern California blockouts are all the blue days PLUS all the yellow Deluxe days.  Therefore, the Southern California Select Annual Pass blockouts are all the orange, blue and yellow days. (The Southern California Annual Passes are only […]

  • Save Money With Your AT&T Home Phone Line

    I called AT&T yesterday to add our old phone number to our account so that I can port it over to a new VOIP account I am about to setup. They charged me $40 for the phone activation, and $7.50 a month as the bare-bones rate to have the phone line.  No matter what I said, […]

  • Arm & Hammer – Consumer Scam?

    I just bought replacements for the Arm & Hammer Baking Soda for the refridgerator and freezer and noticed a change on their box. Where as the old box suggested to change every 3 months, now it tells us to switch every 30 days. Since the boxes and ingredients haven’t changed, it would appear to be […]

  • Make Your Emails Stand Out Using Personal E-mail Certificates

    Notice the red badge on each envelope and the blue lock in the image below?  The red badge tells me that the person is who they say they are, and the blue lock tells me that the message is encrypted. Not only is this functionally important, but it really makes their email stand out and […]