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Outlook.com finally gets IMAP support

2013/09/14 by Administrator

Since I’ve become an Outlook insider I’ve found no news worthy of mentioning. They were either disabling features or doing things most users don’t care about. This day, however, I bring great news. Outlook.com has finally matured into a real mail service and now supports IMAP – this means you can use your favorite mail …

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Category: Email, NewsTag: outlook

Fixing Error 0x80073D0A on Windows 8

2012/11/10 by Administrator

This error is typically shown when Windows Store apps do not install. If your windows store apps are not installing this is likely the culprit. Known causes of this problem are the stopping of the Windows Firewall service. To fix this error and re-enable the Windows Firewall service do the following: Navigate to the run …

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Category: NewsTag: Windows

Google Voice – All Calls Unkown / No Caller ID

2011/10/20 by Administrator

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. …

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Category: Mobile, NewsTag: Android, google voice
Dept of Justice

Data Retention Periods of Major Cell Service Providers

2011/10/01 by Administrator

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 …

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Category: Mobile, News, Privacy, SecurityTag: Android
Windows

How to browse or mount a System Restore point in windows 7 and vista

2010/09/02 by Administrator

While troubleshooting a bug with Kaspersky AV 2011 (not sure if bug yet) I ran across the issue of needing to browse a single certain file in order to detect a false positive. The stupid solution would be to revert system restore, make a copy of the file, and revert back… However, using a tool …

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Category: News

Howto: Studio 15 webcam with Windows 7

2010/07/08 by Administrator

BATP provides the much needed solution to getting Studio 15 webcam driver working with Windows 7 when Dell fails to release an appropriate update or workaround for over a year.

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Category: News

Howto: Facebook Chat XMPP settings

2010/02/11 by Administrator

Here are XMPP settings to connect to facebook chat with your favorite client. We recommend Pidgin, PSI, or Miranda IM. Protocol: XMPP Username: Your Facebook Vanity Name Domain: chat.facebook.com Jabber ID: vanityname@chat.facebook.com Password: <Facebook password> Connect port: 5222 Connect server: chat.facebook.com Use SSL/TLS: no Allow Plaintext Authentication: no So if you are setting it up …

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Category: News

The silent death of Technorati

2010/01/05 by Administrator

In October to November of 2009 a peculiar problem arose, as a search engine Technorati is not indexing any of the 26,000,000+ new blogs which were created in the past 2+ months, according to math.

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Category: News
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