I personally have used the Swype keyboard on my android phones since it was in beta. It was exciting to see SwiftKey launch its own variation on this type of keyboard. Swype has always had issues differentiating between “if” and “of” and other similar letter combinations. It was a nuisance to go back over every … Read more
A question I get asked often is why should I root my phone? Typically if you have to ask this question, that is a great reason why you should not. The risks involved are not for the common user who wants to sound cool by saying their phone is rooted. In my experience if someone … Read more
Question for the readership: What is the true cost of providing public WiFi (unsecured) in say an airport? Leave answers in the Comment section… In this age of 3G, MiFi, etc. does anyone really need to pay to use WiFi service to get work accomplished? Sure I’ll connect all day long if it is free. … Read more
Bought my signifigant other a Galaxy Tablet for an upcoming trip and decided to get her up and running with WiFi tethering. I tether my laptops to my Droid’s frequently and love it. Long story short, it wasn’t as straight forward as I had hoped. After several hours of frustrating work trying to get a … Read more
Ran into an issue today where a clients SBS 2008 server stopped servicing requests made to hostname/owa. I am still unsure as to what caused this issue but find a fairly simple way to recreate the OWA virtual directory for IIS. Many admins are familiar with this procedure / howto for Exchange 2003 but are … Read more
Just installed Word Press app for BlackBerry. Writing this post on it. It works great! If you are BlackBerry & Word Press user get this FREE app today. You will thank yourself later. Get it from BlackBerry App World -habanero_Joe
Looking for a no-charge BlackBerry IRC client? (or any J2ME device) I was and found jmirc. It is fairly basic and I feel that the interface is sort of clunky but it gets the job done. Current version is 0.96. One of the nice features is that you can create profiles for various IRC host, … Read more
I am still buzzing with joy over my recent Android phone purchase. The Android Marketplace has proven very useful, I have found many useful apps and wanted to share a few worth trying out. 1. Listen – This Google app is a must have if you listen to podcasts. Forget the old days of downloading … Read more