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My Dopod 838Pro for the last 3 days has continuously been displaying a “The Speakerphone is on” notification bubble. This was starting to get real annoying because it was actually turned off.

I tried turning it off via all the usual approaches, while making a call hitting the Speaker Off button or selecting the “Turn Speakerphone Off” menu item, rebooting the phone, etc. all to no avail.

After doing some searching on the net for a solution I read that by holding down the Answer/Call button for a couple of seconds during a call would turn the Speakerphone on.

So I thought I’d give that a go and called my work (as it was late and no one would be there to answer) and tried it and what do you know the speakerphone icon and notification disappeared and everything is back to normal again.

Very Weird!

I’ve been waiting to try Gmail’s new features since hearing about them and as of this morning I can as my Gmail account has now been upgraded.

Some of my initial impressions of the new version are

• The Improved Contacts manager looks good. I now have an excuse to get in and clean up my contacts.
• Pre-fetching of mail works good it’s a bit slow when viewing labels which contain a lot of mail but that a small trade off to get the instantaneous viewing after the mail has been loaded.
• I like the ability to quickly search for all recent conversations just by clicking on the more button after hovering over the person’s name.

• If I need to create more filters I can use the “Filter message like this” option to get started quickly.

All in all I’m very impressed with the new version.

Technorati tags: Google, GMail, Gmail 2.0

If you use Outlook and connect to an exchange mailbox and have the Use Cached Exchange Mode enabled. What Outlook does is create an offline cache (outlook.ost) to store a local copy of your exchange mailbox when your not connected. This offline cache is created in the Microsoft\Outlook folder underneath the Local Settings folder of your profile.

• XP and lower - C:\Documents and Settings\<Your Username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook)
• Vista - C:\Users\<Your Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

This location is fine if you have a lot of free disk space or your exchange mailbox isn’t large but if get low disk space free notifications it might be time to move the offline cache to another location. The only problem is that moving the offline cache is not as simple as moving a Personal Folder this is due to Outlook storing the location of the offline cache with the exchange account settings.

Steps for moving a Personal Folder

1. Close Outlook
2. Locate the .PST file
3. Move it to the new location
4. Open Outlook
5. Use the dialog box to locate the Personal File at the new location

Steps for moving the offline cache

1. Close Outlook
2. Run Regedit and locate registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\<Version>\Outlook where <Version> is
   1. 10.0 for Outlook 2002
   2. 11.0 for Outlook 2003
   3. 12.0 for Outlook 2007
3. Add a new a string value called ForcePSTPath and enter the new location for the offline cache (from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883401)
4. Run Mail Setup from the Control Panel
5. Click on the Data Files and add a new Temporary Personal Folder (this will just be temporary as outlook won’t allow you to remove an account which is associated with the default email delivery location)
6. Set this Temporary Personal Folder to be the default delivery location. You may get a similar question just answer Yes
7. Open and close Outlook quickly. (This sets the Temporary Personal Folder created in Step 7 to be the default delivery location)
8. Back in the Mail Setup program and click on accounts and remove your Microsoft Exchange Account.
9. Open and close Outlook again to clear any settings. (May not be required but doesn’t hurt)
10. In accounts (Step 8.) add your Microsoft Exchange account back.
11. Open Outlook and it will re-create the offline cache in the location specified entered in step 2.
12. Clean up by removing the Temporary Personal Folder created in step 7.
13. Open Outlook to recreate the offline cache in the new location.
14. Don’t forget to delete the old offline cache from C: Drive.

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Outlook, Exchange Cache Mode

I’m a Dorky Nerd God which I’m not to sure if that a good thing or a bad thing…

Either way don’t tell my wife I wouldn’t want her to think that this is proof that she has won the “Your a Nerd, No I’m a Geek” debate we have had running for years

Technorati Tags: NerdTest

Well after waiting just under a month since the official release date (previous post) the Australian version of the Windows Mobile 6 ROM upgrade for the Dopod 838Pro is now available for download from the HTC Member’s Club.

I’m downloading it now

Technorati tags: Windows Mobile 6, Dopod 838Pro

As of 10:53pm on the 23rd July 2007 my son Sebastian weighing in at 7lb 3oz and 50cms long was born!! It was just a fantastic experience being in the delivery room and seeing him for the first time words just can’t really describe what is like but I’m sure every new father can agree it is just so FANTASTIC!!!

Here is a couple of pictures I took today of my son Sebastian I may be a bit biased but it’s he just gorgeous!!!.

WOO HOO!!! It’s great to be a DAD!!!!

Technorati Tags: Baby, Photos, Dad

Ever since I first read a couple of months ago that HTC will be providing a free update to Windows Mobile 6 for the Dopod 838Pro I’ve been waiting in anticipation for it. So you can imagine how excited I was when I read that they have announced that is available.

So without wasting any time I go to download the updated ROM and received the following message.

Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE: The announcement is now saying that it will be available tomorrow the 12th July. Lets hope fingers crossed!!

Technorati tags: Windows Mobile 6, Dopod 838Pro

This Guy really likes his Zune

via Gizmodo

Technorati Tags: Zune, Dodge Nitro

In my last post I talked about using Google Reader to create a Shared Item feed or Link Blog but what if you wanted to take it a step further and split the posts you find interesting into different categories (Eg. Tech News, Geek stuff, .NET, SQL, etc.) and that get there own RSS feed for people to subscribe to. Can this be done? Well “Yes” but it’s going to be a bit more labor intensive on your part than just clicking on the share button.

To create your new Category Link Blog the first thing you will need to do is to create a tag that will represent the categories. The easiest way to do this is add the tag name to an existing post by clicking on the Edit Tags at the bottom as follow.

Before

Add Tag WPF

Afterwards

After you have done that the new tag will appear in your list.

The next step is to set the tag to being public via the Tag settings page (Settings, Tags) by clicking on the icon next to the word private to switch

Private

Public

From here it is just a matter of clicking on the “view public page” to get the address of your new link blog page.

To add items to this category link blog is just a matter of editing and adding the tag to the posts you want to add.

Technorati Tags: Google Reader, Link Blog, Tags