How to update your PSP firmware
Posted on January 5, 2009 at 5:52 am
I always have and always will believe that it’s worth installing an upgrade to firmware for any device, whether it be a computer, wireless router, or game console. In this article I am going to walk you through the steps required to upgrade the firmware on a PSP device.
Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as double-clicking an EXE file and watching the magic happen. With a PSP, in order to update the firmware, you have to follow a couple of steps. However, they are fairly simple steps that don’t require much technical know-how.
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Schedule TiVo recordings from your mobile phone
Posted on January 4, 2009 at 5:13 am
Do you have a TiVo at home? If so, you might be interested in knowing that you can schedule show recordings on your TiVO DVR from your mobile device, i.e. a BlackBerry, Windows Mobile device, or your iPhone.
You probably already knew you could schedule recordings by logging into TiVO.com, browsing the TV shows you want to record and clicking Record Episode. Unfortunately, there was no easy way to do this from your mobile phone. Trying to login into TiVO.com from my BlackBerry never worked since it was not optimized for mobile devices.
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Synchronize Outlook contacts with Gmail and mobile phone
Posted on January 3, 2009 at 5:35 am
Have you ever started writing an email in Outlook and thought that the email address you are trying to send to is in your auto-complete list only to find out it’s in Gmail, but not Outlook!? Or the other way around?
I don’t think of myself as a very gizmo connected person, but even I end up having different contacts in my corporate Outlook account, my Gmail account, and my BlackBerry. Wouldn’t it be great if all of those contacts could be synchronized so that when I create a new contact or update a contact in Gmail, it automatically adds the contact or updates the contact in Outlook?
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SoftMaker - Free office suite software
Posted on January 2, 2009 at 5:55 am
It seems like I am always writing about some new office suite software that is competing against Microsoft Office. The list of online office suites that I’ve written about is long: Google Docs, ThinkFree Office Suite, Zoho online Office apps, Adobe Buzzword online word processor, and Live Documents.
But that’s not all! There are several free desktop office suite programs too including Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice, StarOffice. So should I even bother adding another one to the list? Sure!
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How to remove a web page from Google index and other search engines
Posted on January 1, 2009 at 5:20 am
So you have created a web site or a web page and you don’t want anyone else to be able to access it right? That’s a bit of a problem once Google, Yahoo, MSN, or some other search engine indexes it!
Once a web page or website is indexed, it can be found by anyone on the planet with an Internet connection. If you want to hide a page or website from search engines, you can do it in several ways.
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Adding JavaScript programs to your webpage
Posted on December 31, 2008 at 12:32 am
There are a lot of JavaScript codes out there available for free. With JavaScript you will have dynamic functionality in your otherwise static webpage. You might still be daunted by the thought of touching codes in your webpage but let me assure you that this is as easy as a plain copy and paste operation.
A good source of examples of JavaScript codes are located here: http://www.javascriptkit.com/cutpastejava.shtml
For illustration purposes I will choose the whole year calendar so we can display a calendar for the whole year of 2009: http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/yearcalender.shtml
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