Archive for the ‘technology’ Category

MagicBerry Blackberry IPD File Exporter Review

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

The Blackberry Desktop software creates an IPD (*.ipd) file when creating a Blackberry backup. This file is useful to the Blackberry Desktop Software if you want to load your information on to a new device in the future, but does not allow you to extract your data (like contacts or ...

Don’t Forget to Backup!

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Why should you back up your data? Because your computer hard drive will die eventually - it is only a matter of time. To save yourself the time and pain of trying to recover lost data, be sure to backup your data regularly. The 3-2-1 Rule The guys over at DPBestFlow have ...

Why Computer Science is Awesome!

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

That's a video from a "theory" computer science course - a type of course that all computer science students have to go through (at the University of Illinois, they are the _73 courses - 173, 373, and 473). There are some lucky students who find these courses fun and interesting, ...

BIS – Issue with Blackberry Tour

Monday, July 20th, 2009

As a new Blackberry user, I was not aware of the BIS, the Blackberry Internet Service, when I set up my Blackberry for the first time. Basically, the BIS allows you to manage your email accounts that are used on the Blackberry, like the Display name for sent email, and ...

Public Service Message: ../index.htm

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

One of my pet peeves is when people post links or URLs in prominent locations (posters, advertisements, etc) with the "/index.htm" or "/default.php" or "/default.aspx" or any of the derivatives of these. Please people - with very few exceptions, URLs with default.htm or index.htm or things like those do not ...