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Continue reading →: Symbian Virus
Zedge: Symbian Virus called Skull. Very scary, there is a file call Extended Theme Manager by Tee-222 that has this virus. You have to have a third party file manager installed to get rid of it. There is a third party virus scanner for symbian from “f-secure”:http://www.f-secure.com/products/fsmavs60/. Probably should get…
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Continue reading →: Nokia 6620 Unlocking
Going to Europe, so will need to use a prepaid card. Here are various sites that unlock the 6620 courtesy of google:”6620 unlock”: * Nokia Unlock, Symbian 3600,3620,6600,6620 and 7650 Unlock – GSMLOCKER. They charge $15 and can do it remotely. * “Mobileunlocked.com”:http://www.mobileunlocked.com/order_unlock.php. These folks charge $9 for the same…
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Continue reading →: Sorry state of Audio Players
Tom’s Hardware Guide Mobile Devices: Is There Any Flash Left In Audio Players? – Introduction shows why Apple is going to completely kick butt when they announce their flash-based players in January. It is amazing to me how poor the designs are of the current flash products. Tom’s Hardware struggles…
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Continue reading →: Notebook Hard Disks
Now that you can just take a notebook hard drive out and replace it, there’s a growing market for increasing disk space. This really matters for notebook performance. First, going to 7200 RPM essentially doubles performance compared with 4200 RPM (although power consumption goes up). Also, most drives are 20-40GB…
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Continue reading →: A9 for Firefox
Now that Firefox is officially a 1.0 product, its interesting to see the “big” guys start to support it. Amazon just released A9.com > A9 Toolbar for Firefox. Works well.
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Continue reading →: Finding a 4-port VOIP gateway
_Hat tip to “A9”:http://a9.com for finding this…I’m trying the new Firefox A9 toolbar_ VoIP Hardware and Software Products. Here’s a list of VOIP hardware. Its actually quite hard to find a good review site that tells you how to put together a small multiline system with an existing PBX. I…
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Continue reading →: ASUS WL-HDD2.5
TomsNetworking Tom’s Hardware WL-HDD2.5 review. Well I’ve struggled with the Linksys NSLU2. In talking with a buddy, the problem is that it won’t work with just any enclosure, the new Maxstor II enclosure works perfectly though, so don’t use a cheesy one, it is very sensitive to the USB2.0 interface…
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Continue reading →: Blackberry reinstall gotcha
Support – Protocol Error: Data Transfer Aborted. Arrgh, the one error you get when you reinstall is that two DLLS don’t get registered by the install program, so you get this error. The fix is to register with regsvr32 rimdevicemanagerps.dll and bbdevmgrps.dll. You can find these usually in c:\program files\common…
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Continue reading →: Car Complaints
Car Problems, Car Complaints, & Car Repair Information — [ CarComplaints.com ]. “Hoops”:http://scbhooper.com was asking bout where to complain about cars. Here it is. And who couldn’t love a site called, “Mylemon.com”:http://www.mylemon.com
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Continue reading →: Thunderbird to Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, Yahoo
Making the transition at home from IE to Firefox and from Outlook to Thunderbird. Main issue of course is what happens with calendars. Good news is that there are quite a few applications that allow public mail access as showing from Using Gmail, Hotmail/MSN or Yahoo! Mail with Thunderbird. -…
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