Hi everyone, Today, I want to talk about blackouts in the island of Puerto Rico. I’m writing this post while I’m passing through a blackout in this moment. Puerto Rico is a caribbean island where the electricity generation is done by plants distributed usually near the coast in several parts of the island. Most of these plants burn gas and some are of combined cycle. These plants are old and sometimes gives problems. Blackouts in the island happens because of…
Hi everyone, Recently, I came into this issue where my Lenovo Y720 laptop, with an Intel Core i7-7700HQ CPU seems to be stuck at running at 0.78Ghz even when the power options are set to High Performance. This issue would persist even when the machine is shut down and powered on again, for some reason. The task manager looks like this in this case: Laptops, especially those with dedicated graphics, would throttle down the CPU sometimes if the temperature gets…
Hi everyone, I hope you all had a very excellent Valentine’s Day. Today, we are getting 5 movies on DVD. Included today is Disney’s Encanto. Do note that as of yesterday, Redbox has adjusted their DVD and Blu-Ray price to $1.99. This brings the DVD up by $0.14 cents and the Blu-Ray down by just $0.01 cent. Let’s see the additional movies available this week: Movies added DVD Death of a Telemarketer Encanto Locked Down (2021) Settlers Superintelligence Movies Coming…
Hi everyone, In this post, we’ll learn how easy it is to burn a Windows 10 ISO image that we’ve created to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. This is the best tool available to burn ISO images and it’s the most recommended software to use. It is also free and it can verify a disc after it is burned to make sure that the disc burned successfully. The best way to go straight to ImgBurn and burn the image is…
Hi everyone, Yesterday, we got another update of Windows 10 released to the Release Preview channel. This update has a Knowledge Base number of KB5010415 and brings Windows to the following versions: Windows 10 20H2 19042.1561 Windows 10 21H1 19043.1561 Windows 10 21H2 19044.1561 I usually downloaded Windows updates from uup.rg-adguard.net but I am giving uupdump.net a try. The process is very straightforward and follows almost the same steps we did to download Windows 11 UUP files. There are 2…
Hi everyone, Today, I will show you how to download Windows 11 UUP files from uupdump.net. This seems to be the most reliable way to get the Windows 11 UUP files that are needed to build an ISO, as previously, I’ve had issues with some downloads from uup.rg-adguard.net. The issue I’ve been having is with the “Upgrade to Windows 11” version that’s shown under the “Windows (Insider version)” category. That option always seem to download very small files, and uup-converter-wimlib…
Hi everyone, Today is the 2nd Tuesday of this month. Today, we are getting 6 movies on DVD and 2 on Blu-Ray. Today’s titles include King Richard and Resident Evil: Welcome to Racoon City. Let’s see what’s new to watch this week: Movies added DVD Apex Catwoman: Hunted King Richard Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City The Hating Game Blu-Ray King Richard Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City Also, last Friday, we got Last…
Hi everyone, Today, I am releasing ResultsForm. This is my first .NET 6 project. ResultsForm is a .NET 6 Windows Forms class that you can use to pass a List(Of String) object to show your software output or results in a nice, simple form. It can save its output as a log file and the form can be customized. To use this form, you can simply call it like this in VB.NET This will have the following output: You can…
Hi everyone, Today is the first Tuesday of this month. Today, we are getting 3 movies on DVD and 2 on Blu-Ray. Today’s titles includes Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Clifford The Big Red Dog. Let’s see what’s new to watch this week: Movies added DVD Clifford the Big Red Dog Deadlock Ghostbusters: Afterlife Blu-Ray Clifford the Big Red Dog Ghostbusters: Afterlife Movies Coming Soon This list may be incomplete, and titles may be added at any time. February 4th Last Survivors…
Hi everyone, Today, I’m publishing a new MP3 Graphical User Interface software to encode audio files to MP3. This software uses ffmpeg’s libmp3lame or libshine encoding libraries in order to produce MP3 files. These provides you an option to choose between quality or speed encoding. For quality MP3 files, there’s libmp3lame, while for speed (and a lower quality) there is libshine. It also provides the option to encode files using a variable bitrate when using libmp3lame, and allows choosing a…