Tech

  • It’s a YouTube world

    I’ve had an idea lately that pretty much anything that happens outside of your own home is pretty much open to having been captured by someone on a camera phone, either in still or video. Never was the idea that we are truly living in a YouTube world made more clear to me than last…

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    Why did they do that?

    Something that I thought about today when I was talking to someone on the Friends in Tech forums. Their question was about being unable to see the Temporary Internet Files folder even after showing hidden folders. I’ve found that when I installed IE7, that, and the history folder are “protected operating system file and folders”,…

  • Contact sub-folders

    Let’s make a rule. If you use a mobile device that doesn’t support sub-folders in the address book, don’t bother having sub-folders in your Outlook contacts, ok? Of course in our office it’s not completely the user’s fault. Some years ago, when upgrading to Office 2000 I think, our IT staff created a backup of…

  • What are the odds?

    There are 6 characters in my Blackberry password. There are 2 keys on my blackberry that quit working. What are the chances that one of those keys would be in the password, thereby rendering my device locked and completely useless? Yup, 100%! Tags: blackberry