Author Archives: cmexonat

Fake ECOO E04 battery alert

Recently I’ve got replacement battery for my new ECOO E04 smartphone. It seemed as original at the first glance. But capacity was too low. It was 1700mAh instead of 3000mAh as listed and not even 2000-2500mAh as it was reported … Continue reading

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If Adobe CC suddenly won’t start

Today one problem appeared that Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014 won’t start at all. Finally I’ve found answer that works! Open the file (C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\SLCache\X19zbGNfZmVhdHVyZXNfXw==.slc or /Library/Application Support/Adobe/SLCache/X19zbGNfZmVhdHVyZXNfXw==.slc for Mac) in any text editor, delete all of the … Continue reading

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ECOO E04 Plus Aurora cheating camera specs

As you maybe know the new hot model of chines smartphone by the name ECOO E04 Plus Aurora has been faced as equipped with good 16 megapixel back camera and 8 megapixel front cam. But there were some doubts in … Continue reading

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Don’t throw away your old 775 motherboard, or to put Xeon into 775 socket

Lately I’ve noticed interesting way to upgrade my old box with LGA775 system. It has Core2Duo E7300 processor and 8GB of RAM. So I saw somewhere on the web that one can use Xeon processors (771 socket) in 775 socket … Continue reading

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Computeruniverse – beware of B-ware!

Lately I’ve purchased some staff from Computeruniverse.com, Germany. Everything’s great as usual, but this time there was some “B-ware” item. Ok, I really didn’t have in mind to grab some cheaper staff, the only reason B-ware item was purchased is … Continue reading

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Wacom Driver lag on startup

Today I managed to get rid of the annoying issue with Wacom Intuos Tablet driver loading on reboot/sleep. Well, I have Mountain Lion 10.8.3 and Wacom driver of version 6.3.5-3 that is up to date to the moment. When I … Continue reading

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Installing Win7 on mSATA SSD drive

Some time ago I managed to move Win7 to mSATA SSD drive. As I posted before to do this I pulled off HDD drive to make mSATA SSD drive the only one in the system. After that installation goes as … Continue reading

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Booting up on battery issue

I had no time to share with you this issue I noticed on my Dell M4500 laptop. Since I installed Win7 onto mSATA SSD disk once I tried to boot on the battery I failed to do this. After I … Continue reading

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How to upgrade DELL Precision M4500 up to 16GB RAM

Disclaimer! AFAIK You may install 16GB of RAM for QuadCore system only! If you have DualCore processor it’s limited to 8GB. Yesterday I have got my upgrade kit from Germany, the 1TB HDD and 16GB RAM. Surprisingly, parcel arrived in two … Continue reading

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mSATA SSD arrived!

Hi there! Today I’ve got 128GB SATA minicard for my Dell Precision M4500 laptop. As you may remember I posted about this SSD drive here. I’ve ordered it month ago from Hong Kong ebayer, this is the link to the item. Firstly … Continue reading

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