Tame Your Technology - Computer Repair Zone

Well, tech-freaks, today I bring you news of an exciting new competition that has the potential to fill your pockets with free gadgets.

Here’s what is currently on offer:

• Flip Mino Video Camera
• Nintendo DS Lite (along with Cartoon Network Racing and The Grinch Stole Christmas)
• $50 Prepaid Amex Card
• 2GB USB Pen
• USB Missile Launcher

In other words that’s a whole lotta goodies - total value over over $350!

These prizes have been sponsored by the excellent Affiliate Confession blog (also great for advice on the Build A Niche Store software), Market Leverage and Vat19. The result will be pulled on June 25th so if you want to get involved, just head over to Affiliate Confession and apply.

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I’m slowly trying to move everything I can online at the moment because now that I am travelling quite a bit I don’t want to be tied down to any particular computer or geographic location.

This means things like swapping to web mail rather than a stand-alone mail client and using del.icio.us rather than Forefox standard favorites.

So I’ve been experimenting with Google Calendar to help keep life organised.

What I want to be able to do is access Google Calendar on my PC while I’m working (easy) but then when I’m away from my computer I want to be able to still access it. And this is the problem I have had in the past - one calendar on my cell phone, and another paper version at home. And keeping the 2 in sync can be a real pain.

What I *can* do is log into Google Calendar using the browser on my cell phone, but even running 3G the connection is so slow it’s painful - and I want to be able to make quick decisions. Worse - the data network isn’t as reliable as voice so sometimes I find I *can’t* access the net on my phone.

But now I think I’ve got the solution and it’ll be interesting to see how it works out.

As before, I enter dates and appointments on Google Calander when at my PC. But I have also found and installed a little application on my Windows Mobile-powered Palm Treo that syncs the Windows Mobile calendar function with Google Calendar.

So if I’m heading out for a meeting all day, I just turn on my Treo before I go, power up the synchronization software and - POW! - within moments everything is on my Palm.

This synchronization happens via my phones internet connection so I don’t need to be plugged into my PC in order to carry this process out.

Even better - the synchronization works both ways so if I add some dates at the meeting, I just resync at the end of the day, and my Google Calendar account is updated.

Perfect! Google Calendar will even send me SMS messages ot remind me of upcoming events!

The application I’m using is called OggSync - I’m using the freeware version at the moment but there is a paid version - though to me it wasn’t very clear from their website what the differences were so I thought - why pay the extra?!

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For the first time ever [blush!] I have actually installed a few additional applications on my trusty Palm Treo.

Whilst I consider myself above-average when it comes to general technology use, I’d never installed anything like this, so I was a little bit nervous.

It turns out it was OK.

The software I wanted to download had a mobile page available (often beginning or ending in “m” - such as www.maindomain.com/m or m.maindomain.com - and very plain to look at) so after finding it on my main desktop PC, I visited the link on my Treo’s browser.

Next I simply clicked the download link, ticking the “open after download” option and left it running for a few seconds to download the application.

Straight after download it automatically installed itself, and checking the “Programs” menu, there was the new application.

How simple is that?!

If you *can’t* download the file straight onto your Windows Mobile device however you can download it to your PC, then sync your PC and mobile device, then install from there but it seems a bit more complicated and long-winded.

I found this video (from an outside source) incase it’s of use though…

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It’s strange how many people still think they pay to receive a picture message. I suppose it’s similar to the way many people think they’ll pay to receive a text message when they’re abroad. Trust me - it ain’t going to happen.

So as to whether you need money on your phone to receive picture messages, the answer is “no”. Only the sender pays.

If you’re expecting one and you haven’t received it, then either there’s a problem with their phone sending it or yours receiving it. Firstly - can they send picture messages to other people? If not, the problem is likely their phone. If other people can receive them but you can’t, then the problem is likely your phone.

In which case, read my article about not being able to send or receive picture messages and all will become clear

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