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I’ll still post occasionally on this site as I do now, but the Twitter account will be for more frequent posts like tips and photos of recent tech support work and IT stuff.
Had enough of ‘buy coins for real money’ to play Age of Empires II wannabe Android apps, so I dug out my c2004 Dell Win XP laptop, reinstalled Windows XP, found a genuine version of SP3 and I’m now installing that.
I need XP3 for some remote login software that might enable me to log in to my laptop from my Android tablet to play AoE II while mobile.
Encryption is hard to understand, but this three minute video does a great job explaining how public key encryption (aka public/private key encryption) works, and how it can be used to send messages between people, websites or computers) securely without having to send the key (password) with the message.
No need to wait until pay day!
I am now able to accept credit cards, debit cards and PayPal payments. I can also accept bank transfers (in advance), and cash and cheques for face-to-face support.
Call now for fast, convenient tech support, or download the remote support app for Windows and Mac and install/run it, then click “Start Session” for immediate support if I’m online. If I’m not online, you can leave me a message to connect or contact you.
A rare post from me. I don’t plan to post much for at least four months, but this one might help others.
I own a HTC Wildfire, an Android phone. I added my Google account to it and it all synchronised well. Although there is an option to add another account, after the entering the details it would say “Signing in”, and:
“Your phone is communicating with Google servers and setting up your account. This may take up to five minutes.”
Well, it would rarely get to five minutes before reporting:
“Can’t establish a reliable data connection to the server. This could be a temporary problem or your SIM card may not be provisioned for data services. If it continues, call Customer Care.”
I finally found a solution:
Go to the phone’s YouTube app
If you have an account, sign in. If not, create an account using your Google username and password.
That’s it! The phone now has the new account. You will probably want to go to settings, Syncing and Accounts, and set it to sync automatically. You’ll then get your second or subsequent gMail accounts in the gMail app.
If you found this useful, please let me know with a comment. I might start posting tech-related stuff again in 2011, but want to know if anyone is interested before I spend time on it. Thanks.
I’ve just exceeded the number of people I feel I can effectively follow, 60. Any more than that and I feel that Twitter will become less interesting/useful to me. I want to stay close to the people I follow, and see a decent proportion of their tweets.
Already I have come to the conclusion that I can’t read all the tweets, I’ll just dip in and read what I can in the time available. If I follow more people, it just reduces the number of tweets I see per person.
So, what do I do if someone new follows me now? My initial thoughts are that if they have something really interesting to say then I’ll follow them, but it’s going to have to be really, really interesting. If I do follow them, I’ll be looking for someone to un-follow so I keep the numbers effective.
It’s hard to un-follow people, as I may have a relationship with that person. I feel bad when someone un-follows me (and always wonder why). So, should we feel un-follow people? And if we do, should we feel bad about it? Should we feel bad when we’re un-followed?
Please leave a comment. Please include your @username. Please also say how you found out about this post. Thanks.
I just noticed that visitors to this website increased sharply over the last few weeks. Looking into it further, it seems that 60% of the people who visited the site had searched for something about T-Mobile’s ‘Fair Use Policy’ (see earlier posts).
My guess is that most (if not all) of those people had had letters about so-called ‘excessive use’ of their T-Mobile broadband.
T-Mobile still has “Browse as much as you want and never worry about cost with our unlimited price plans” on its website. It is not unlimited! There is a maximum speed, and if you download too much they slow the speed down so much that surfing is impracticable, and it’s slowed for the rest of the contract term. How is that ‘unlimited’?
No other (major) mobile broadband provider caps the speed if you exceed the usage limit, but they do charge for any data you use in excess of the limit:
Vodafone Mobile Broadband charges £15 per GB if you exceed their limit.
3 Mobile Broadband charges £100 per GB thereafter if you exceed their limit.
O2 Mobile Broadband charges £200 per GB if you exceed their limit! £200 per GB!!!!
If you feel that these caps and charges are unfair and/or extortionate, please leave a comment (even if it’s just “Me too”).
Still want to buy mobile broadband? If so, check the ads to the right, and send a few pence my way (at no cost to you). Thanks.
Well, I guess that ends any hope of a mobile telecoms company sponsoring my motor racing career. Come to think of it, I’m looking for work at the moment too, so I guess these are four companies I won’t have to contact.
Argh!!! I want to subscribe to all the Darwin programmes as podcasts, not just one of them. Why do you insist on trying to force me to use the stupid iPlayer? I don’t want to listen at my computer, I want to listen when it suits me, on whatever device I choose.
iPlayer looks nice, but it doesn’t function in a 2.0 way. Maybe I’ll call you Broadcaster 1.1 (instead of 1.0) because you are trying, but iPlayer is just like a TV on a PC; it doesn’t give people the on-demand watch-anywhere experience that people now want. We want to download when it’s convenient, and watch when it’s convenient; on our PCs or mobile devices (without using proprietry software), whether or not we have access to the internet at the time, on the train, in the car; whenever, wherever, however. Only when we can do that will you be Broadcaster 2.0. Come on! It’s not the future, it’s now!
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