Bay Area Tech Pros

  • Home
  • Blog
  • Services
  • Testimonials
  • About
  • Contact
    • Payments
You are here: Home / Blog

2013/11/14 By Alex Leave a Comment

New updates to Thunderbird & Firefox Pro Pack

I’ve just added some great privacy and security resources to the Firefox Pro Pack. Additions include an addon called Blender that fakes your Firefox version to the most common one, Smart Referrers – which obfuscates which website you visited from, YouTube Center to put YouTube under control, and Setting Sanity which restores some lost control over […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: firefox, thunderbird

2013/09/14 By Alex Leave a Comment

Outlook.com finally gets IMAP support

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 […]

Filed Under: Email, News Tagged With: outlook

2013/04/24 By Alex 2 Comments

Outlook Insiders Program

In an effort to deliver the best service to my customers I’ve enrolled in the Outlook Insiders program. Bay Area Tech Pros has recently switched the default suggested mail service from Google Apps to Outlook.com – we find this will best benefit our future clients. By being part of the Outlook insiders program I get […]

Filed Under: Email, News Tagged With: outlook

2012/12/07 By Alex Leave a Comment

Google Apps no longer offered as free service

Google has stopped offering free service of Google Apps for new customers, customers wanting to sign up for google apps must pay $50 per person per year. More information may be found at this link. As such Bay Area Tech Pros is no longer able to offer Google Apps as a service. We are providing […]

Filed Under: Email, Google Tagged With: gapps, gmail

2012/11/10 By Alex 11 Comments

Fixing Error 0x80073D0A on Windows 8

Windows

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 […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Windows

2012/09/28 By Alex Leave a Comment

Updates to Thunderbird and Firefox Pro Packs

Updates have been made to both the Firefox Pro Pack and the Thunderbird Pro Pack with those made to Firefox being more significant. Look below for the new additions or click through, above, for the full package. The update for Firefox’s pack now has the additions of: Muter – mutes all Firefox content. Adblock Plus […]

Filed Under: News, Privacy, Security Tagged With: firefox, thunderbird

2012/06/13 By Alex 29 Comments

Torrent Ninja Guide – Stay Anonymous

Tixati Guide

We’ve covered torrent privacy back in 2009, right before Windows 7 came out. At that time we helped you get peer guardian running on the release candidate and provided an alternative method by using utorrent’s ipfilter.dat. We’re back with an updated and superior alternative for both utorrent, peer guardian, and peerblock. You might need to […]

Filed Under: Privacy, Security Tagged With: Torrent

2011/12/09 By Alex Leave a Comment

How to Root HTC Glacier / Mytouch 4G

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 […]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Android

2011/12/06 By Alex 2 Comments

Howto: Google Voice with Trapcall

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

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Android, google voice

2011/10/20 By Alex 1 Comment

Google Voice – All Calls Unkown / No Caller ID

Google Voice

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. […]

Filed Under: Mobile, News Tagged With: Android, google voice

« Previous Page
Next Page »

Affiliate Offers

Mint Mobile
  • Host a website with DreamHost
Bay Area Tech Pros
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
(925) 302-6312
alex@bayareatechpros.com

Local IT Services in:

Available in Walnut Creek, Concord, San Ramon, Lafayette, Danville, Clayton, Alamo, Pleasant Hill & the greater Bay Area.

Check out Bay Area Tech Pros on Yelp
  • General Contact
  • Computer Services & IT Outsourcing
  • About / Information
  • Blog
  • Remote Support

Copyright © 2021 · Terms of Use & Privacy Policy · Bay Area Website Design