whitsongordon
Whitson Gordon
whitsongordon
Whitson Gordon is a writer, gamer, and all-around tech nerd. He eats potato chips with chopsticks so he doesn't get grease on his mechanical keyboard.

I've previously overclocked an i7 920 up to 3.36GHz on a stock cooler. After that the BCLK needed to be upped - due to the 920's locked multiplier - too much for the RAM to handle or at the sacrifice of underclocking the RAM, the Vcore required was too high for the cooler to handle.

However, overclocking the later Read more

I'd love to know how to control Google Play Music from my phone - even if it's just to skip to the next track (although all the other stuff you can do on Play Music would be great too). I considered that maybe some kind of server software to send messages to chrome via my home wifi + chrome extension might be able to Read more

I do the same with tasker but with a "twist". look for a strong G force in any direction, fire up the GPS, get location, and then broadcast a SMS to all of my contacts that I was in an accident at the location sent. That way when a texting driver creams me on my motorcycle It instantly sends out a help request. Read more

Choose places you want to go and reward yourself! This could be an actual trip or something less costly/more creative like a trip to a local restaurant with the destination's cuisine or a movie night based on the destination. Read more

We were stunned to learn during a blackout that we do lose phone/internet service as well. Seems FIOS must have power to operate beyond its limited backup battery. Read more

Hmm, well, some would argue that trying to buy recreational drugs online or maybe medicine you might need (both of which were on Silk Road) are neither unethical nor immoral. Others might say that using Tor is an expression of the privacy that we should have by default, but don't. Read more

I think it's more that TOR is great for people who KNOW it doesn't give complete anonymity, and needs to be used carefully and in specific ways. It helps, but it's not a set and forget kind of thing. Read more

I don't know, this random boss encounter might be even more meta. Read more

Tags are in fact the soul of any productivity or get organized apps. Tagging is more personal and depends on person to person. But the system of tagging has a long way to go or evolve. There should be a way where tags automatically find similar tags and group with each other [read intelligent tagging], rather than me Read more

LOVE Business Calendar for one simple reason - the ability to create an event with the "share via" menu.

I'm CONSTANTLY amazed at how many calendar apps don't appear in the "share via" menu when trying to create an event/pass info from another app. Google Calendar doesn't even appear - to date I've only ever found Read more

If you do a good job of budgeting, eventually you can move into what I call the Tracking Phase. You just need to know where your money is going. This is very handy for people approaching retirement as they try to figure out what income they need in retirement. Read more

I can't stress enough these points: Read more