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How to Do It Yourself! December 29, 2007

Finally! Fast, Reliable HTML Email For Blackberry

A huge shortcoming of Blackberry devices is they can’t natively display html email. Instead the Blackberry presents you with a bunch of urls and html code. Ugly, Ugly, Ugly. Recently rumor sites have reported that native html email capabilities will be coming “soon” from RIM. For those who can’t wait , I noticed that Empower [...]

Into The Clouds

an December 20, 2007 – 12:56 pm EST was the last time in 2007 I used Microsoft Outlook, Exchange or any Microsoft Office application. For the next month I’ll forgo them, instead using only the free online suite of Google Apps – and sharing my experiences. The good (new features discovered), the bad (features I’ve [...]

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How to Do It Yourself! September 21, 2007

by Jenneth Orantia

Voice clips on Windows Live Messenger

f you’ve got a Windows Mobile 6 device and haven’t yet tried the voice clip feature, do it – it’s amazing! Instead of struggling with the touchscreen or keypad input, you just activate the voiceclip function, speak into the device’s microphone, and the other party gets an embedded voice clip within the chat window.Mitchell and [...]

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How to Do It Yourself! September 18, 2007

by Judie Lipsett Stanford

Tricks for staying motivated

This is off-topic, but I thought I’d share with you a little nugget of wisdom I found today. I’m one those habitual procrastinators that will always find a way to put something off until I absolutely have to do it – and if I don’t have to do it, then there’s a good chance it’ll [...]

The Windows Mobile Encyclopedia of Software and Accessories

You may have noticed that I, along with Clinton and Doug G.,�am on the Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine panel of judges for their 2007 Software Awards. What you may not have realized is that the magazine maintains an extensive database of applications and accessories that are available�for these Windows Mobile devices. Are you searching [...]

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How to Do It Yourself! May 22, 2007

by Jenneth Orantia

Pimp your Zune

I’ll tell anyone who listens – I think the brown Zune is ugly. Looks great in photos – which is what prompted me to go with that colour – but as Alicia Silverstone once said in Clueless: “From far away it’s OK, but up close it’s a big old mess”. Thank heavens Colorware is around [...]

iTunes workaround for non-US users

I’ve always been jealous of US-based iTunes users and their ability to buy TV shows and movies – something that’s still not available in other countries. Don’t get me wrong – I download videos just as much as the next person, but being able to download an entire season of a particular TV show for [...]

Read AND Write to your NTFS Drives on Mac OS X

As I said in my MacBook Pro review, my now 3mth old MacBook Pro is my first Mac computer EVER. Up until I bought my MacBook Pro in December all my HDDs were formatted with NTFS. That worked fine for me, as I never had to connect them to Macs. The problem is NTFS can [...]

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How to Do It Yourself!, Quickies February 16, 2007

by Kerry Woo

A Palm Treo cradle – LEGO style

I was looking around for a charging cradle that would allow me to store my Palm Treo 650 or 680 in an upright position. Most of the ones that I’ve seen advertised range in price from $29 to $49 USD. While esthetically useful, the practicality of obtaining a cradle meant having yet another spare power [...]

Geek Squad!

Computer busted, and you don’t know what to do? Need to transfer 10GB of data to your new computer from your old one, and that external hard disk isn’t being recognized by your old system any more? Support contract expired and you need help? Hey, no problem! Call the Geek Squad! Yeah, yeah, I know; [...]

Moving and Copying behaviour in Mac OS X

Mac OS X deals with file moving and copying similarly to Windows. When you drag files/folders between folders on the same disk, they are moved, and when you drag them between different disks they are copied. On Mac OS X it is a little bit harder to change the default behaviour when you are dragging [...]