Today I connected my z770 cell phone to my Windows Vista PC with the non-included USB cable.In the manual it says it should be included but to the manual there is also a single-sheet addendum correcting the “typo” in the manual: “using the included USB cable” should read “using a USB cable” etc. 🙂 Anyway,… Continue reading Duplicates using ActiveSync and PC Suite from Sony Ericsson
UFOs – I love this stuff
I just read in Swedish techie newspaper Ny Teknik that British Department of Defense has released all their previously secret UFO reports since 1978. They have now made them publicly available on the web because all requests for them amounted to too much xeroxing work… 🙂
Exchange Session Failed Communication Interrupted
Yesterday I went ahead and bought the new Sony Ericsson z770i that I blogged about some time ago. I have been waiting a few weeks to get it in black instead of silver and during that time they announced another model – z780i – that should be all that the z770i is but also with… Continue reading Exchange Session Failed Communication Interrupted
Office 2003 menu in Office 2007 ribbon?
I know Microsoft says that the new Office 2007 ribbon is more productive than the old menus. I for one don’t buy it, I still spend way too much time in Word or Excel 2007 trying how to figure out how to do the simplest thing that I’ve always known how to do in previous… Continue reading Office 2003 menu in Office 2007 ribbon?
Find an Active Sync Mobile Phone
How do you find a new cell phone that can sync well with Exchange? I love my Qtek 8500 (HTC StrTrk). Even though it has now been over two years since I first got it I haven’t been able to find anything like it to replace it. And it needs to be replaced. Not only… Continue reading Find an Active Sync Mobile Phone
Import Excel Data into MySQL in 5 Easy Steps
This is probably nothing new to many, but I spent quite some time to figure it out so I thought I’d post my notes on it. To import data from Excel (or any other program that can produce a text file) is very simple using the LOAD DATA command from the MySQL Command prompt. Save… Continue reading Import Excel Data into MySQL in 5 Easy Steps
Facebook Photos to your Windows Mobile Cell Phone
I just stumbled over this cool tool – OutSync – from Mel Sampat who’s a Windows Mobile Program Manager at Microsoft. It allows you to sync the photos of your Facebook contacts to Outlook and then on to your Windows mobile cell phone (or other phone if you have sync software that synchronizes photos) I… Continue reading Facebook Photos to your Windows Mobile Cell Phone
Partial Restore of Mysqldump Backup
Just recently I started making backups of my MySQL databases using mysqldump.I have a small batch/command file running on my Windows based MySQL Server, scheduled to every night backup all of my databases to a file named backup_all_dbs.sql: “C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysqldump” –all-databases -u username –password=”password” > c:\backup\%DATE%\Backup_MySQL\backup_all_dbs.sql A few weeks ago I finally upgraded… Continue reading Partial Restore of Mysqldump Backup
IE7 performance problems
I have been having some serious performance problems with my Windows XP laptop the last 6+ months. This is a few years old machine, 1GB RAM and Celeron processor.I did a lot of upgrading around that same time – Office 2007 incl. Groove 2007 and the new Desktop Search and also upgraded to Internet Explorer… Continue reading IE7 performance problems
Outlook Consumes 100% CPU and Stuck at 99% Send/Recieve
For a long time I had a problem where my Outlook client would get stuck at 99% Send/Recieve and at the same time consume 100% (or as much as it can) CPU. I have two different computers (XP and Vista) running Outlook 2007 against Exchange 2007 (Hosted Exchange) wich had the exact same problem. When… Continue reading Outlook Consumes 100% CPU and Stuck at 99% Send/Recieve