A couple of weeks ago, my son goes to power up our Xbox 360 to jam out to Guitar Hero 3, only to find 3 red lights flashing endlessly at him. He called me downstairs to check it out. I uplugged the machine (AV cable and power supply) so see if there was a bad connection or something… I plugged it back in… No luck, just three red blinking lights. So, I pull out the Xbox360 Users Manual (gasp!) hoping to find a shred of information about what’s causing the problem. I find a section under Troubleshooting called “Ring of Light Flashes”. I figure this section will hold the solution… WRONG! I go onto read:
Four lights on the console flash red: Check your AV cable.
Two left lights on console flash red: The Xbox 360 is too hot and will not play games until cooled.
All other patterns: Internal problem requires service. Contact Xbox Customer Support. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200. You’re screwed! Are you kidding me!!???
I decided that I wasn’t going to call Microsoft since my Xbox was 3 years old and most likely out of Warranty and that I’d do some research on Google to see if I could find a solution to this problem. I had heard that the Xbox 360 had issues with overheating and figured that other people were facing similar issues. During my research I came to find out that The Red Ring of Death occurs because of overheating. The Xbox 360 designers decided to put in the bare minimum of necessary cooling equipment into the system in order to create a slim and light console. So in a nutshell, with all the graphics and CPU processing power the 360 has, it simply hasn’t enough heatsinks and fans to keep the components cool enough. (more…)
Since switching over to Apple’s iPhone 3G a couple of weeks ago, I have found myself trolling the App Store looking for mobile apps that can help me to organize my life and increase productivity which in turns saves me time. The other day, I stumbled on an app called Evernote, which is like backup for your brain. We are all constantly bombarded by information, much more than our brains can handle, so we end up forgetting all sorts of things. (more…)
I’ve been pretty inactive on the blog lately, so I’m trying to get back into the groove. I’ve been testing out some new technology on the web recently so I thought that would be a good place to start. I recently purchased an iPhone 3G and have been exploring some of the apps from the Apple App Store. One of the coolest apps that I’ve discovered is a streaming music service called Pandora.(more…)
I saw this really cool video today in Mac|Life’s weekly newsletter that featured a fan-made music video of the song “Again and Again” by the band, The Bird and The Bee. The video is a montage of various applications and features of Mac OS X that are edited together using Screencasts, which are basically a series of video screen shots. Pretty cool stuff… it’s creator, Dennis Liu says it took one month to plan and three months to create. Check out the video below… Enjoy!
This post from ZenHabits.net is ideal for anyone interested in Getting Things Done (more on GTD) – or just being productive and organized, for that matter — to be able to quickly add things to your to-do lists without interrupting your work; to be able to see what you need to do right now, without worrying about everything else; to be able to organize stuff without too much work. SIGN ME UP! I’m going to check out a couple of these apps and report back on which one I prefer. Click here to read the full article at ZenHabits.net.
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