How to Root HTC Glacier / Mytouch 4G

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Cyanogen mod’s FAQ was not working for a 2.2.1 T-Mobile Mytouch (HTC Glacier) – I was issued an error occured while running exploit messages upon running /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start FAA90000 -end FFFFFFFF Upon some digging and trial and error I developed the following method which worked on two 2.2.1 Glaciers I had in possession. I [...]

Howto: Google Voice with Trapcall

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How to run a combination of Google Voice, Trapcall, and your Carrier’s voicemail at the same time.

Google Voice – All Calls Unkown / No Caller ID

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For a few days my phone was showing all incoming calls forwarded through Google Voice as unknown, this was really confusing as my GVoice is the primary business line. I ran some basic testing and was able to verify that Google Voice was able to normally display the caller ID on other devices and carriers. [...]

Mytouch4g CM7.1 BATP Mod – Unthrottled and Untracked

CM 7.1

Hello all, this is a lightly modified CyanogenMod 7.1 stable running Android 2.3.7 for the Mytouch 4G aka HTC Glacier. The purpose of this mod is to remove carrier throttling and make it harder for Google to know who you are and where you are while improving your GPS performance. By using Sony Ericson AGPS [...]

T-Mobile Visual Voicemail APK Install

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Sometimes Always market/carrier restrictions end up hampering the user’s experience. One such instance is T-Mobile’s visual voicemail and I will show you how to fix the problem: The first step you want to do is call T-Mobile customer (Tel:800-866-2453) and ask to have visual voicemail activated on your account. Next it is important to have [...]

Data Retention Periods of Major Cell Service Providers

Dept of Justice

This document, obtained by the ACLU, details data retention policies of the five major US cellphone carriers. The table below is a copy of the original PDF with some info removed, you can see the original at this link. Verizon T-Mobile AT&T / Cingular Sprint Nextel Virgin Mobile Subscriber Information Post Paid 3-5 Yrs 5 [...]

How To: Enable the Admin Bar in WordPress

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Usually, if you wanted to make a new post, page, media, etc. in Word Press, you would have to click once on the sidebar then click the “new” button once again after the page loads. Doing this over and over will waste a lot of time. To someone who has a business or reason for [...]

Thunderbird Pro Pack

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Configuring Thunderbird could be a hassle if you don’t know what you are doing – that’s why Bay Area Tech Pros has placed all the plugins necessary for thunderbird’s optimum usability into the Thunderbird Pro Pack. Get Google Calendar and google contacts working together with your standalone mail client. This Thunderbird Pro Pack will make [...]

Firefox Pro Pack

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Bay Area Tech Pros unveils the Firefox Pro Pack – offering all essential tools needed for efficient firefox use in one collection the Firefox Pro Pack makes installing firefox a breeze.   Included Addons are as follows: Adblock Plus Autofill Forms Firebug User Agent Switcher Pixl Grabber Status – 4 – Evar DictionarySearch Change Search [...]

Browsershots.org – Website Compatibility Tester

If you ever need to quickly test your website’s compatibility with different browsers and operation systems Browsershots is the best solution. Browsershots is the best web browser test available, offering the widest variety of testing options.