As I don’t always have an Internet connection, being able to get my laptop online through my cell phone (a Blackberry Pearl 8100 on T-Mobile) is quite useful. Here’s how you do it. I presume at this point you’ve already installed the Blackberry Desktop software, and can sync fine over USB.
Determine COM Ports
Right-click [...]
I have a Lenovo X41 Tablet PC that I had installed Ubuntu onto. I recently decided to re-install the original Windows software, so I ordered the CDs from Lenovo and broke out an external CD drive. However, when I put in the Rescue and Recovery CD and booted the machine, I ended up [...]
What’s your favorite editor? Oh, I’m sorry, the correct answer should be emacs. Actually, you should use whatever editor you feel most comfortable with; I’ve just found the ability to record keyboard macros in emacs to be indispensable, all the more so since I’ve been using it for almost ten years. Be [...]
I have two PCs right next to each other, each with their own display. One runs Windows XP Professional, and the other runs Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. I have one keyboard between the two of them. KVM? Nah, that’s too passe. Far better to be able to switch between computers just [...]
I’m not sure of the legality of this one, but Lifehacker pointed to an article about authorizing iTunes on more than five computers. The basic idea is that the authorization for a computer is stored on your local machine. This is a good thing, because otherwise you would need to be constantly [...]
Here’s an interesting experiment. On a Windows desktop, right-click on the desktop, and create a new Folder. Then, try renaming it ‘aux’. Can’t do it, right? There are certain restricted words that cannot be used to name folders or files, even though they use regular characters. You can’t even [...]
With the recent release of iTunes 7, lots of folks are upgrading and finding that their iPods are no longer recognized. This is actually a common problem, and not isolated to iTunes 7. Sometimes it just happens, even without upgrade. I found my iPod nano was no longer being recognized by iTunes [...]
I figured a good thing for this site would be to post up error messages I receive, as well as how I solved them. After all, I’m not the only one to get random errors, and if I add to useful results in Google, why not?
After installing iTunes 7, I tried launching it, and [...]
In the old days (say, around 1990) a must-have application when buying a computer was an encyclopedia on a CD-ROM. Hello, Grolier’s and Encarta! No more would you need a shelf full of books to look up interesting facts! When I bought an iBook, it came with a copy of World Book, [...]