Call Timer on BlackBerry Curve
Feb 1st
If your like me, you like to know how much time you spend on a call after you end it. This is particularly useful for business people who need to know how much time they spend on a support call, etc for time logging purposes. Up until now, on Blackberry Curves, you have to navigate your way through the menus, go to call history, find the call you were just on, go to the menu again and show details… All to just see how much time you spent on the last call.
There is a new software update for Blackberry Curves that now show an active call timer on the screen during and after the call.
To update your Blackberry, go to www.blackberry.com (http://www NULL.blackberry NULL.com) and download the "Blackberry Desktop Manager" tool. Once you download and install, connect your Blackberry to your PC via the USB cable provided with your phone. If you have password protection on your phone, you will be prompted when running the software.
Choose "Application Loader" from the main menu and choose "Update Software". Proceed through the wizard to update your phone’s software (this can typically take anywhere from 5-30 minutes depending on how old your software is).
You should update your phone’s software at least once a month to apply any updates/fixes to your Blackberry. This increases performance, reliability, and sometimes you’ll see new features here & there..
Enjoy…
WEB: Facebook Lite (Simple version of Facebook)
Jan 31st
One of the biggest questions I seem to getting recently is “how do I configure Facebook, so that I don’t have to deal with anything about farms, mafia, or any other thing that I don’t use and don’t care about”. Since my use of Facebook is to communicate with people and not for the games, I can completely understand those who would like to use a “Simple” version of Facebook.
Since the end of 2009, Facebook has a “lite” version which they advertise as the version for those still on dial-up or slow internet connections. However, the “lite” version can be used by anyone, no matter what your internet speed is. What you get is Facebook without the extra bloat (Bloat to me because I don’t care for the games and extras) that the full version gives you.
If you visit Facebook at (LINK) http://lite.facebook.com/ (http://lite NULL.facebook NULL.com/) you will see a cleaner easier to navigate Facebook. Just keep in mind that if you are a Farmville or Mafia Wars or any of the other games and add’-on’s for Facebook, then the lite version isnt for you since you will lose access to those features.
You can even move your account to open directly to the lite version or to prompt you as to which version you which to use (for those who wish to jump back and forth), by visiting (LINK) http://lite.facebook.com/settings/defaultsite/ (http://lite NULL.facebook NULL.com/settings/defaultsite/) once you are signed into your Facebook account, and selecting the option that best meets your needs.
You will see a big difference in the amount of space used on your screen when comparing the 2 versions. See for yourself if lite Facebook will work for you. Lite Facebook may actually make Facebook enjoyable to those not raising cows, or trying to kill someone (Pun Intended here!).
TGM: (1/31) Update on the latest changes to TechGeekandMore
Jan 31st
The New TechGeekandMore changes are coming along. If you would like to follow TGM via Twitter or RSS you can now access the Twitter and RSS feeds for TechGeekandMore using the icons on the top right of the TechGeekandMore site.
Simply click on either of the links and you will automatically taken to either the TGM Twitter or RSS feed page, where you can sign up to follow TechGeekandMore.
Another change involves being able to contact TechGeekandMore, and now if you would like to send a message to TGM you can very easily.
If you scroll down the right side any page you will see the listing for TechGeekandMore pages. There you can click on the “Contact TechGeekandMore” link which will send you to the TGM form. Questions, comments, requests are always welcomed. This is in addition to comments that can still be left at the bottom of any posting.
In addition you will now see at the bottom of the TGM blog a few banners ads for TechGeekandMore partners. Currently the banner listed is for iDrive. TGM became a partner for iDrive because everyone should be backing up their computers and iDrive makes it simple and inexpensive. For the record, if you sign up for iDrive via the TGM banner, TGM will receive a small payment per person who uses the TGM banner. TGM values its reputation and limit ads to specific areas of the site, where they will be clearly listed, and will only recommend items or have ads for items that TGM knows will benefit its readers. We will NOT have ads just for ads sake.
Finally, if you scroll down the page of TechGeekandMore, you will also see a link to Donate to TechGeekandMore. TGM was started with the goal of informing and helping as many people as possible to understand the language of Tech. To most users, talking about Technology issues is like talking a foreign language. However, there are some expenses with running TGM, and a lot of time and heart put into trying to make TGM informative and helpful to those who visit. As a user, I hate going to sites, trying to read a story, that is broken into pieces in between tons of ads. It is our hope and goal to never do that to TGM, but we like everyone else have bills to pay. So if you are a reader of TGM and have been helped by something you have seen here on TGM, I am asking for a donation to help keep TechGeekandMore going.
Alert: Change to AOL Email (As of Feb.1, 2010) affects sent emails
Jan 30th
AOL has sent out an email announcing that as of Feb. 2, 2010, if you receive your AOL email via a 3rd party application (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) that you will need to make a change to how your 3rd party application saves emails you have sent, because if you don’t, AOL will no longer automatically save the sent email for you. What that means is that yes, you will still be able to send emails if you don’t make the changes they ask, however, most everyone likes to keep a copy of emails they sent just so they can keep track of what they are sending.
The email AOL sent looks like this.
Step by step instructions on how to adjust your 3rd party email software can be found here (LINK: http://help.aol.com/help/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=18997&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_AOLHOW_TO_1_1&dialogID=28992960&stateId=0 0 29020837 (http://help NULL.aol NULL.com/help/microsites/search NULL.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=18997&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_AOLHOW_TO_1_1&dialogID=28992960&stateId=0 0 29020837))
Please select the appropriate link from the ones given below for instructions on how to configure your third party e-mail application to save your sent e-mails.
- Outlook 2007 (http://help NULL.aol NULL.com/#1)
- Outlook 2002/2003 (http://help NULL.aol NULL.com/#2)
- Outlook Express (http://help NULL.aol NULL.com/#3)
- Thunderbird for Windows and Mac (http://help NULL.aol NULL.com/#4)
- Mail on Mac OS X (http://help NULL.aol NULL.com/#5)
ALERT: What to do if your accelerator sticks, how to stop your car.
Jan 28th
TechGeekandMore may have a focus on Technology, however, we all drive cars. Toyota has just announced that they are recalling Millions of Cars and also stopping production of much of their car line because of a sticking accelerator issue (until Toyota can figure out why its happening http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-01-26-toyota_N.htm (http://www NULL.usatoday NULL.com/money/autos/2010-01-26-toyota_N NULL.htm)), TGM felt that it was important to share this video from abc news. We all hope that something like this will never happen, but if it does it is very important that you know what to do.
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8980024 (http://abcnews NULL.go NULL.com/video/playerIndex?id=8980024)
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