Archive for September, 2009
OMG! Microsoft Windows 7 Kicks Butt!
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I have been a long time user of PC’s since the very first days. I was impressed by the advent of the graphical user interface with the Apple Macintosh. I used Microsoft Windows since its first release. It has been a roller coaster of good and bad since the first days.
Windows 386 and the introduction of Microsoft Office gave many of us technophiles hope for what was to come.
When Windows 3.1 arrived, many of us felt like we had arrived at nirvana. Windows for Workgroups punched up networking and file sharing between systems. Windows 98 was a bit more robust, but many users became familiar with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Not so great.
Windows Me arrived and nobody was happy. My buddies at Microsoft said that one should have never left the building.
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Restart Your BlackBerry Without Pulling the Battery
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Did you know you can force a restart of your BlackBerry without having to take the cover off and pull the battery?
If your BlackBerry locks up and you want to give it the three-finger-salute (aka. CTRL-ALT-DEL on a PC), then look no further.
Hold down the left ALT key, than press and hold the following keys simultaneously: RIGHT-SHIFT and BACKSPACE/DEL. Your screen will clear, your LED will blink RED and your BlackBerry will reboot.
Of course if this doesn’t work, rip that battery out! 
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-26
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- Tearing Your Hair Out With Blackberry AppWorld? http://www.ubertechguy.com/?p=87 #
- Excellent article. "What Star Trek Predicts About The Future of Information Security" http://bit.ly/2ExIr #
- WordPress is a Blogger’s Dream! http://bit.ly/3ddOUy #
- @mint For Pete's sake, you guys! We don't all have iPhones! How about throwing a mobile website our way? Or even a BB app??? in reply to mint #
- RT @tweetmeme Online Storage Battle: Which Cloud Back-Up Service Reigns Supreme? | Mac|Life http://bit.ly/aG4IF #
- Celebrating COBOL's 50th birthday! Hard to believe that I started my career as a COBOL programmer 30+ years ago! Wow! http://bit.ly/nu86e #
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ReQall Remembers It All!
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Today I tried out a service called ReQall on my BlackBerry. The service claims to be able to help you keep from forgetting things you need to do. I did not think it possible that someone could take a simple application like a to-do list and make it better, but I was wrong. The folks at ReQall have done something amazing! Read More→
Tearing Your Hair Out With BlackBerry AppWorld?
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Quite a few of us have had problems with Blackberry AppWorld, especially when installations get stuck in what we in the industry like to call “an unknown state.” Basically, it’s just hosed.
No amount of uninstalling and reinstalling AppWorld will fix the problem. You can wipe your device to fix the problem, but what a royal PITA that can be. You can waste hours resinstalling and getting your device back to where you want it.
Try this simple keystroke sequence when you are in AppWorld next time and see if it works for you.
Press and HOLDÂ the ALT key, then press the following keys in sequence: R S T
(As in “Reset” 
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Many thanks to the community at CrackBerry.com for providing this and many more tips. If you are a Blackberry user, you owe it to yourself to join this community.
