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Rebooting Your Blackberry
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Continue reading →: Rebooting Your BlackberryHat tip to the folks at “Blackberrycool.com”:http://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/03/15/00275/ for these tips that give you the equivalent of CTRL-ALT-DEL for your Blackberry: * If you have a 72xx, 75xx or 77xx then if the Blackberry crashes, you get back by holding ALT+CAP+DEL to reboot the device if you have Blackberry software V3.x…
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Blackberry Back From the Dead
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Continue reading →: Blackberry Back From the DeadI thought I had completely bricked Connie’s 7100. But thanks to the wonderful folks at T-mobile (double credit for helping me, really bad that it isn’t just on the web), I got it back. To review, I was installing new firmware, when I got, the dreaded, installation failed from the…
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Continue reading →: Girl with a Pearl Earring!>http://www.doxycide.org/gwape/painting_thumb.jpg! Just saw the movie, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”:http://www.doxycide.org/gwape/about.php and while a little obscure, it sure was a beautiful period piece. The painting of course is known as the Mona Lisa of the North and it is pretty amazing. Some interesting facts: * It all started from Johannes Vermeer…
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SLI Disable message
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Continue reading →: SLI Disable messageAnswer Error stating that SLI Multi-GPU rendering is disabled every time the system is booted on a NON SLI capable computer
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Virtual Skipper Skins
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Continue reading →: Virtual Skipper SkinsVirtual Skipper has a bunch of European sites that have a huge number of boats that are designed for it. The skinning work is amazing, so check out and you put them in c:\program files\Virtual Skipper 4\Templates\ and create a file which is the name of the boat: * “Virtual…
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Starforce Removal
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Continue reading →: Starforce RemovalStarforce is a copy protection scheme that loads drivers on your computer. Here’s how to get rid of the drivers that can slow down your CD/DVD player if you are not careful. Both Virtual Skipper 3 and 4 “use it”:http://www.glop.org/starforce/list.php, so it will appear on my machines with it. You…
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Comparison Shopping Engines
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Continue reading →: Comparison Shopping EnginesWe’ve been looking at comparison shopping companies. Its interesting to see who has what presence on the web right now. From google:”comparison shopping” we get the initial list whic includes: bizrate.com mysimon.com pricegrabber.com dealtime.com shopper.cnet.com It’s interesting to see that shopping.com doesn’t come up. An “Alexaholic”:http://www.alexaholic.com/shopping.com+shopzilla.com+pricegrabber.com+bizrate.com+dealtime.com?y=n&r=6m&z=1 shows that mysimon.com is…
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Shoes online
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Continue reading →: Shoes online!>http://www.zappos.com/images/818/7144818/97060-t.jpg! I haven’t had to buy dress shoes since 2004 (ok, so I don’t wear them much). Interesting to see how discounting works. I picked the Johnston & Murphy Stanza as a benchmark. The discontinued Bentley I got for $140 in late 2004, here’s what the deals are like now…
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Linda Withington can do small and large jobs…
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Continue reading →: Linda Withington can do small and large jobs…It wasn’t clear from this if you want a landscaper or a landscape architect. This review is for an architect to plan a project. We’ve had her work on a small landscaping, a big one and then a whole front lawn and she’s done great each time. Not the cheapest,…
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Another reliable fellow
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Continue reading →: Another reliable fellowThe folks at Sprague do our regular pest control maintenance. They are good about coming regularly and they do a good job. Our main problem has been carpenter ants, but when you need a nasty yellow jacket nest taken care of, they will do it. They are environmentally sensitive to…
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