Now that macbook airs and even many macbook pro models come without CD drives, your only option to reformat is to put a fresh copy of the latest OSX (yosemite right now) only an external drive or a USB drive.

Then you just have to make the mac drive bootable, and you can reformat without any problems.

After a few months of using just about any laptop, the paint from the palm rests starts to come off. There are several ways to fix this problem.

One is to use a plastic cover on the palm rest, but this can feel unnatural.

The other option is to be careful when eating food and making sure your hands are always clean. Be especially careful when eating acidic food like oranges.

If you want to upgrade your mac harddrive, but you can’t or refuse to take your laptop apart, you can get an external hard drive. The best harddrives do not need to match the current internal harddrive specs. I recommend getting an SSD with at least 400 MB/s read and write speeds.

If you’re using an old version of WhatsApp (I refuse to upgrade for privacy reasons since the Facebook acquisition), your options are very limited for disabling the whatsapp notification sound.

It turns out the best you can do is change your default ringtone.

Intel recently released the desktop Haswell-E, which has 8 cores, supports DDR4 memory clocked at 2133 MHz, but the question remains – when will they release the laptop version? With Intel’s tick tock cycle, it shouldn’t be too long before you can get an updated version of the Haswell with the Dell XPS 13.

It should especially be soon, because the next Intel chips (Broadwell at 14nm!) will be released in the first half of 2015.

Whenever my computer gets really hot and things start to slow down, I check memory usage. Usually the culprit is either Chrome, or iTunes, which can use over 1 GB of memory just to play some music! If you want a lighter alternative, you can find most songs for free on Youtube and create playlists.

The difficulty of extracting and parsing text from an unstructured source is will documented. A general formula that lets you parse text would be incredibly powerful because it can handle every kind of textual document that is thrown at it.

An easy way to do it would be to split the text on spaces, and tag each part of speech.

With the new release of the iPad and iPhone 6, the processor is sure to be updated to the A8 cortex. Rumors have swirled with speed increases, and soon we will find out how fast the new processor will be.

Can you imagine how speedy the iPad would be if it had a quad core processor?

Hopefully the new processor will have the added speed without additional thickness and without lower battery life.

So you just got your SAT score and you’re not happy with the results. You have many options on how you can increase your SAT score. You can try expensive tutoring (usually $100-$200/hour!), or you can study with a good SAT book for far less than even 1 hours cost.

Now the question is what book to use? You could use CollegeBoard’s big blue book, which has some great practice tests, and you can also use the GuideParadise SAT book to improve you SAT score.

When only 50 out of 6,000 products make it to Google Merchant Center after exporting from OpenCart, you know you have a problem.

After reading a lot of forum threads about why this OpenCart problem was happening, and after considering hiring someone to manually copy and paste it because the OpenCart module wasn’t working, I finally found the solution.

It looks like I messed up the product descriptions while exporting to Google Shopping.

After fixing the product descriptions, everything exporting correctly to Google Merchant Center!