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Sprinkler System Startup and Shutdown
“Yardcare.com”:http://www.yardcare.com/expertadvice/maintenance/watering/springstartup.html has some good advice about how to startup your sprinkler system. These are specific instructions, but it does mean I need to figure out where all the various valves are to turn the thing on. Fortunately, it never really freezes here, so turning it on is pretty easy if you know where the valves…
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China Mobile WAP, MMS, SMTP/POP and GPRS Settings
OK, here are the detailed configuration you’ll need for a phone you want to make work with a China Mobile SIM thanks to “kuldaen”:http://www.shanghaiexpat.com/index.php?name=MDForum&file=viewtopic&p=449343 For WAP, the official site is on “Monternet.com”:http://www.monternet.com/moneditor/cs/wap/wapguide/ WAP home: http://wap.monternet.com Gateway IP: 10.0.0.172 Port: 9201 GPRS APN: cmwap Username and Password don’t matter BTW with Sony Ericsson phones, they have…
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Engadget Mobile
Engadget realy does have a good set of mobile tidbit from around the world including some interesting trends: h2. Innovations The big ones appear to be making things slimmer and slimmer and also having a real music phone plus an onslaught of Windows Mobile devices: !http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2006/06/canary14.jpg! “Motorola Canary”:http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2006/06/14/motorola-canary-razr-2-hands-on/, this is the RAZR follow-on codenamed the…
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HTC Star Trek is the RAZR Killer
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Setting up WAP and GPRS
Every phone has a whole series of WAP and GPRS settings to get data to work. The SIM card lets voice traffic work, but for some strange reason, the WAP and GPRS settings are completely separate, so for each phone you own, you have to go to the Internet and figure out both how to…
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Tour de France
Well Lance isn’t in it this year and just about every major star (Ivan Basso, Jan Ulrich, Vino, etc.) are out on a doping scandal, so its been interesting following things. See it on Tour de France 2006 blog for blog commentary. “Yahoo”:http://sports.yahoo.com/sc also has good coverage with particularly easy to find “photos”:http://sports.yahoo.com/sc
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United EQM and EQS Explained
United has a very strange system for calculating mileage if you are a Mileage Plus member, basically, if you are a United 100K traveler, then any ticket you book from full-far economy to first class and even including discounted business is counted as 150% of your actual mileage flow for the purposes of getting to…
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Blackberry and RedBerry in China
“Dan Harris”:http://www.chinalawblog.com/chinalawblog/2006/04/blackberry.html notes that Blackberry will be in China in the middle of this year with its own Blackberry. About time. That would be truly great and let’s hope pricing is reasonable too. Apparently, China Unicom will have a cloned service called the Redberry as well.
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Motorola RAZR V3 Mods
Wow, “Mark”:http://www.mark-world.tv/motorola/ has a great tutorial on how to modify and make the razor really yours. Here’s a quick summary of what I did based on his excellent site. h2. Getting Started with the right bootloader * “Software”:http://www.mark-world.tv/motorola/page1.html. First off, he tells you about all the software you need. A key piece is going looking…
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Kids Bikes
Time once again to look at bikes for that interesting age between 9 and 13 where the standover height is about 26″ !