August 28, 2009

Fix Its: Merge Two BlackBerry Calendars into One & AT&T’s Visual Voicemail Activation for the Bold

AT&T pushed out new firmware and a desktop application update for the BlackBerry Bold this week, supposedly with a new Visual Voicemail (similar to the iPhone). But somewhere in the process of the upgrade, I found that a second calendar was activated which wasn't syncing to Microsoft Outlook. The fix that I detail below allows you to merge multiple BlackBerry…
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June 10, 2009

Fixing Blank, Empty or White WordPress Pages after Upgrade

Just a few hours ago, WordPress 2.8 was release to the general public (for the self-hosted version). I was notified within my admin portal and, after I did a quick database backup and downloaded all of my blog's files, I clicked on the upgrade button. After a few seconds, WordPress told me that everything was successful. I was pretty amazed…
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March 18, 2009

How to Move a WordPress Blog from One Domain/Host to Another

Over that last couple of days, I have had the "pleasure" of moving a blog from one hosting provider to another (not that difficult of a task) but ALSO changing domains in the process. While I don't think this post should the definitive set of instructions, it is a combination of information that I read and gathered, in conjunction with…
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November 12, 2008

Tip: Snapping a MacBook Pro or PowerBook Upper Case Back Together

I have, over the years, cracked open a few PowerBooks and MacBook Pros, either to change a DVD drive or to upgrade the Hard Drive. My latest upgrade I did was to put a 320 GB Hard Drive in my MacBook Pro. I actually got pretty quick at it as I had to do it a couple of times. There…
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January 16, 2008

iPhone: Upgrade to Firmware 1.1.3 Observations

Last night I took the plunge and decided that I wanted to have the latest and greatest firmware from Apple. The Google Maps location feature, the Web Clips on the springboard and the ability to re-arrange icons really grabbed me. But this post is not about that. Since I was coming from a Jailbroken 1.1.2 iPhone with 3rd Party Apps…
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November 12, 2007

iPhone: Jailbreaking 1.1.2 – This time it WORKED!

My previous post showed how I failed miserably with the Jailbreak process on 1.1.2. Now I have done some research and have tried it again...and it WORKED!!! UPDATE on 11.13.07 @ 3:45pm - added some screenshots of the iNdependence MobileFramework stuff at the end of the post. UPDATE #2 on 11.15.07 @ 10:30am - added instructions on how toÂ put the…
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November 12, 2007

iPhone: Jailbreaking 1.1.2 iPhone firmware DID NOT WORK FOR ME!

What started out as what I had hoped to be a relatively pain-free process has made me wince with TONS of pain. Listed below is what I TRIED to do to get my iPhone jailbroken on 1.1.2. IT DID NOT WORK FOR ME! Others may have had success, I did not. It could have been that I'm on Leopard and…
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October 23, 2007

Apple: How to Prepare for a Leopard Upgrade

First, this is by no means the end-all summary on how to get your Mac ready for Leopard, but I thought that it would be useful to create a list of tips that you might want to follow prior to installing Leopard (OS 10.5). I have tried to compile this information from a variety of sources, including: MacFixIt, TUAW, Macworld…
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September 5, 2007

How to Upgrade your Discontinued 4gig iPhone to an 8gig

As many other 4gig iPhone owners are feeling right now, I'm a bit upset at "paying the price" of being an early adopter. I know, I know, I wanted the latest and greatest and wanted it right away. Well, now Apple no longer sells the 4 gig version AND has reduced the price of the 8 gig to $399...geez! So,…
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