Traveling to London With My Blackberry Curve
I’m heading to London tomorrow for a week long business trip and will need to have access to phone, email, and internet on my Blackberry…
Can I use my Samsung Galaxy phone as a laptop modem for the internet?
How to use a Samsung Galaxy phone as a wireless access point, to connect your laptop to the internet.
How to add memory to a Samsung Galaxy
Samsung’s Galaxy mobile phones come with 16GB built-in device storage. If you want to start watching videos or storing songs though, you’ll quickly run out of space. Here’s how to add more memory – up to 64 GB.
Connecting a Linksys Wireless Router to a Comcast Modem
I have Comcast internet at home with a standard-issue Motorola cable modem, and it seems that Linksys routers don’t play nice with these modems. Here’s how to fix the problem.
iPhone camera roll photos are gone after the last iOS upgrade!
Be sure you sync your iPhone before doing any iOS upgrade, so that your camera roll photos will all be in iTunes. Then when you upgrade, they should still be on your phone or at least saved on your computer.
Apple Drops iPhone Price to $199 and Converts Blackberry Fans
As you know, I’ve been a strong advocate of my Blackberry Curve and wrote an article a few months ago titled Five Reasons Why I Chose a Blackberry Curve Instead of an iPhone. I take my Blackberry everywhere, and am continually checking email, checking on my websites, finding my location on Google Maps with the built-in GPS, and loving everything about it… EXCEPT:
It’s Internet speed is too (yawn) slow. EDGE (the network technology used by the Blackberry and many other mobile phones) is dull, and way too slow compared to the new 3G speeds that the iPhone will have come July 11th, 2008 when it’s released to the masses.
I already know how fast 3G is from my Aircard that plugs into my laptop and gives me fast broadband internet speeds. That’s what we’ll have with the new iPhone.
According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs an 8GB iPhone 3G will sell for $199 and the 16GB model will sell for $299, and will come in white and black versions. You can buy these iPhone 3G models on July 11.
Dropping the price to $199 makes this a no-brainer decision (especially if they keep the lower monthly service plan that’s always been less expensive than the Blackberry’s $30 monthly rate).
GPS: yep, it’s built-in.
Is it possible to recover files lost after upgrading to Windows 10?
Question: I downloaded Win 10 on 7/29/15, because Microsoft told me my Dell Inspiron N5110 laptop running Windows 7 was compatible. Each time I started it up, the Win 10 logo came up for 20-30 seconds, and then the screen went blank. It didn't power down, just blank, and that was IT. Dell told me that my laptop was NOT…
Transfer iPhone backup to another iPhone
Question: I’m very desperate because my iPhone 3GS got stolen and now I am trying to transfer my backup to another phone, an iPhone 3.
My PC is taking a long time to shut down
Question: My computer is taking a really long time to shut down or restart – like a few minutes. Drives me nuts. Any solutions?
Answer: I had the exact same thing happen on my kid’s PC that’s running Windows XP. I tried all kinds of things, like registry cleaner programs, disk optimizers, windows update, and applying service packs. Nothing worked, and for a long time I had to just endure the problem.
I recently installed Panda Internet Security on that machine, and it found a slew of viruses and malware programs that were installed (probably from one of the kid’s games websites they visited).
It was able to remove them all from my system and the slow shutdown problem went away immediately.
I’m not sure which virus caused the problem, but it hasn’t returned since I installed Panda, so I’d recommend giving it a try.
Here’s a link to the Panda download page where you can try it for free.
My Sony Xperia is frozen – how do I unlock it?
Question: How do I unfreeze my Sony Xperia Z1 phone? I’ve tried turning it off but nothing happens. I’ve tried taking the sim card out but that didn’t help either.