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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fixing Error 0x80073D0A on Windows 8
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 […]
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 […]
Torrent Ninja Guide – Stay Anonymous
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 […]
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 […]
Howto: Google Voice with Trapcall
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
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. […]