Archive for July, 2007

Posted in Google, Tips, Wordpress at 1:18 am July 21, 2007

My Wordpress blog url structure for posts is of this pattern: /blog/year/month/date/post-title/
Ignoring the fact that a post could also show up in /blog/ and /blog/category/ and other places, the same post could show up in:
/blog/2007/
/blog/2007/07/
/blog/2007/07/21/
/blog/2007/07/21/post-title/
The duplication is not as big of a concern (to me) as the possibly poor user experience when someone encounters one [...]

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Posted in Gadgets, Tips at 11:29 am July 19, 2007

These days (maybe before but I didn’t know), Sprint can transfer contact information from an old phone to a new phone, regardless of brand. I knew before they could transfer within brands but it was news that they could do it across brands.
In my case, I had contacts on my Sanyo phone and in Outlook [...]

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Posted in Gadgets at 8:50 am

I am posting a modified version of what I posted at PPC 6700 Backlight keeps coming on.
My PPC 6800 Mogul would randomly turn on minutes or hours after I turn it off and put it down. It does it multiple times. Fortunately, it turns itself off soon after. This happens when it is on battery [...]

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Posted in Tips at 1:55 pm July 18, 2007

When Opera announced that it had “named Yahoo as the exclusive provider of mobile search on … Opera Miniâ„¢ and Opera Mobileâ„¢“, there were mixed responses, depending on people’s preferences.
The seemingly easiest solution for those with different preferences is to change the browser homepage to the desired search engine, or any page in general. That’s [...]

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Posted in Gadgets, Tips at 9:40 pm July 17, 2007

I was excited to get my Bluetooth adapter so that I could sync my Mogul phone wirelessly via Bluetooth to my laptop running Windows XP. That excitement turned to sheer frustration as I was unable to set up a partnership and thus unable to use ActiveSync through Bluetooth.
Sometimes the Bluetooth software manager would ask for [...]

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Posted in Venting at 9:38 am July 11, 2007

Last Friday, I ordered the Sprint Mogul from sprint.com, only because it’s not available in stores yet. It’s supposed to have overnight shipping. It’s Wednesday and the status of my order is: “The order is awaiting fulfillment.”
Tuesday morning, I put an order for a new DS game at amazon.com. I have Amazon Prime and the [...]

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Posted in Car at 12:00 am July 6, 2007

I have less than two months before the warranty on my Honda Accord runs out. I was hoping that the DST start/end dates change would be addressed while my car was still under warranty. When I searched on the internet, it seemed as if there would be a fix, at least for the Acura, around [...]

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