Alan McCloskey, Author at OCmodshop.com

Fighting Firewalls

Alan McCloskeyMar 28, 2009November 28, 20140

Some of you may have noticed that OCMS has been down off-and-on for the past day or so… that is because I installed a hardware

Hopes for a PSP Phone

Alan McCloskeyMar 25, 2009November 28, 20144

The Sony PSP is one of my favorite portable devices, simply because it delivers a quality gaming experience on the go. Over the past year,

DNS Servers Crashed Hard

Alan McCloskeyMar 23, 2009August 25, 20140

In case you hadn’t noticed, OCModShop (and all its sister sites) were unreachable at about 5:30 PST. Apparently the DNS servers I go through went

How to set up Pretty Permalinks on IIS7

Alan McCloskeyMar 21, 2009June 24, 20140

WordPress was originally meant for Linux servers running Apache. Apache has a nice module called mod-rewrite, which basically allows the usage of pretty permalinks. Pretty permalinks

OCmodblog moved over to Server 2008

Alan McCloskeyMar 20, 2009August 25, 20140

If you get a 404 error, then that means that you probably have some old files cached. Since the permalinks are new, you may be

Acoustibuds Earphone Adapters

Alan McCloskeyMar 19, 2009July 4, 20142

There are many many personal audio products available today; the most popular being mp3 players and portable gaming devices. The problem that many of them have

Server 2008 Woes Over

Alan McCloskeyMar 19, 2009August 25, 20141

I installed a Server 2008 web server a few weeks ago, but ran into several issues, primarially dealing with the 3ware RAID card. No matter

Resistance: Retribution Review

Alan McCloskeyMar 16, 2009June 24, 20141

Title Resistance: Retribution Rating M Mature Publisher Sony Corporation Release Date March 17, 2009 Composer Garry Schyman Platform Playstation Portable (PSP) Modes Single player, Multiplayer

3ware Escalade 7000 and Server 2008

Alan McCloskeyMar 12, 2009August 25, 20142

So, I’ve been toying with Windows Server 2008 for a few weeks, and have ironed out most of the kinks… until I came across this

Nyko Charge Station for Wii

Alan McCloskeyMar 10, 2009August 22, 20140

Most other game manufacturers have discovered that rechargable controllers is the way to go. The Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 have rechargable gamepads. Even Nintendo’s

How to Back up Your Windows Encryption Key

Alan McCloskeyMar 10, 2009August 22, 20140

When you encrypt a file (or folder), Vista creates an encryption key. This key is vital, because if it becomes corrupted or lost, you no

Change Windows Time Format (Military or International)

Alan McCloskeyMar 10, 2009August 22, 20140

You can change the time format in the taskbar to a military or an international time format in the Regional and Language Options. Click on

Screensaver Doesn’t Turn On in Windows

Alan McCloskeyMar 10, 2009June 24, 20140

I had an issue on two of my computers where the screen saver would never start. I could preview the screen saver, but no matter

Traffic Building and Homework

Alan McCloskeyMar 10, 2009November 28, 20140

One of the quickest ways to drive traffic to your site is to key in on a hot topic. If you have a site dedicated

Hardware That Sucks After All

Alan McCloskeyMar 10, 2009November 28, 20140

We review many products here at [OC]ModShop, and try to be as honest as we possibly can. Sometimes we review a product that gets very