Here comes the tax season scams My wife come in and asked me to listen to a voice mail. It was a recording of someone with an english accent saying that he was from the IRS and they have been trying to reach out to her for a 1040 audit. ( WTH is a 1040 audit anyway?) They never used her… Read More
How to get Outlook to connect to GMail Google Apps with 2-step verification This drove me nuts for awhile. I have Google Apps so my GMail account is not .gmail.com. No matter what I tried, I could not get Outlook to connect to my GMail account which has 2-step verification turned on. After doing quite a bit of research I finally figured it out. You need to set… Read More
70 tips of real life cheat codes from Reddit This is a cool post I just read on Reddit (OP link). Check out the links, they mostly go back to the original authors. If you like something, go back and give them an upvote. Here is a compilation of the top 80 70 real life cheat codes written by reddit community. The original submission… Read More
How to create a bootable USB Drive to install Windows 8 I want to install Windows 8 on my tablet but do not want to dig around to find my DVD player, so I decided to grab an old 4gig USB key and creating a bootable install for Windows 8. There are two ways to do this. The easy way is to simply download the Windows 8… Read More
How to make a grilled cheese sandwich using a popup toaster I cannot believe this has not been realized before, and yes its not perfect, like my Perfect Midnight Grilled Cheese Sandwich; but this approaches brilliance. Caution, do this at your own risk. Mess this up and you can ruin your toaster or worse. So really, be careful. Now let it be said I have not… Read More
How to keep iTunes from opening when you connect you iphone ipad I really hate that itunes launches every-time I connect my iphone or ipad. At first I thought it would be an easy fix, simply uncheck iTunes Summary “Automatically sync [this device] when connected”. Right? #FAIL Yes the iphone will not autosync, but iTunes will still launch! What is the fix? Turn on the setting ‘Allowing… Read More
iPhone 4 voice control sucks! #FAIL But here are some tips anyway Such FAIL that its almost epic. I have only recently started to play with iphone voice control after a VERY pleasant experience with Google Androids voice control, which work very well. With my Droid I could get directions, play music and even call people. And although calling people was not 100%, it was pretty good.… Read More
Firefox 4 feeling buggy? Could be those plugins I ran Firefox beta off and on, and it was fine but a bit buggy. Then I download FF4 final release and it was REALLY buggy. Screens not fully rendering, browser getting stuck, buttons not working, etc.. Never did fully crash though funny enough.Even killing the browser and restarting did not help. I then started… Read More
Ebay is getting ready for lots of buying and selling of iPhones This is pretty interesting. Ebay has a new feature to make buying and seeing of used (and new ) iPhone easier. You basically select the phone you want to buy its condition, and the carrier and you can buy if someone has placed a advert for that phone. Now what is different is the filtering… Read More
iPhone Tip #27 Make your iphone 3G run a bit faster There are still a bunch of iPhone 3G users out there. I still use mine despite having access to quite a few phones now. However, my phone has been going slower and slower.. What gives. Well, since I run SBSettings I can monitor the memory usage of the phone, kinda of like task manager from… Read More
Tip #45 Turn off your laptop WiFi if you stow it in your car This just came in via email: Seems that in Jamaica, a large number of laptops are being stolen out of cars by thieves using cheap wifi finder fobs. It works like this.. The go to malls, or other places that business people may do a quick dash into to get something.. But not TOO fast. … Read More
iPhone suddenly losing battery life? Could be your email Just under a week ago, my iphone’s battery life took a nose dive!. It would be out of power in 3 to 5 hours instead of keeping over 80 at the end of the day. My first thought was I had some rouge apps running in the background. I turned off backgrounder.. Still dying. Killed… Read More
Single page for reinstalling your web apps, useful for windows 7 reinstalls Like most people who had any choice, I avoided installing MS Vista. I did download Windows 7 (build 7100 and RC) and have been quite impressed. So in addition to dropping my hard drives and installing SSD’s (which I also recommend) I’m beginning a computer by computer reinstall to Windows 7 (except for my Mac… Read More
Having lockup problems with intelliscreen and push notifications? Me too It seems intelliscreen can lockup if you get a push calendar notification as from exchange if you have unread email. The problem is when you get an alert, intelliscreen will ‘flip up’ so show the alert and a button to dismiss it. However, if you have unread email, you cannot access the slide bar to… Read More
Tether your iphone without jailbreak! With some warnings I just read this today on ismashiphone (link).. The posts describe the steps required to tether your iphone 3g(s) IF you are updated to the new 3.0 firmware. Since I use PDANet (paid for it too) I have not tried it personally, but I’m sure there are a few readers who love to have this… Read More
Jailbreaking the iphone 3gs – purplera1n This did not take long did it? But the funny thing is that it did not come from the Dev-team, but instead instead from George Hotz. Now this is windows only (sorry mac people) but I’m sure it will be ported soon enough. Now remember this is 3.0, so if you are running the 3.1… Read More
Will the iphone 3.1 update reduce dropped calls? Maybe … I’m not holding my breadth though. Since the 3.0 update, I have had more issues with dropped calls and poor cell performance. I’m not the only one to see it. Since my first post on this issue, I have received quite a few comments from people experiencing the same thing, and tips to help reduce… Read More
Cut and Paste on the iPhone makes Evernote useful.. well more useful I do not use Evernote much, despite having it on my desktop and iphone. However, I REALLY wish I could edit text in the cloud from the iphone, but Evernote just never made it into my workflow, instead I use Google Docs. Well, now with cut and paste being easier to use, I found myself… Read More
iphone 3.0 tip #16 With exception to cut and paste, there was not much that I though was really useful in 3.0, but there are a few.. here is #16 Open Link In New Tab In Safari Safari now uses tabbed browsing, like big boys do on the desktops, and this new hidden feature is great. If you tap… Read More
Four Tips to Reduce Dropped Calls for the iphone 3G… again I wrote this article for iphoneLife over 1/2 a year ago. For those who remember before the 2.1 update on the 3G, dropped calls was a continual pain. Well, I’m not sure what the story is; or if its just odd coincidence, I and others have been having issues with dropped calls once we did… Read More