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PDAs: Soft And Hard Resets

A friend of mine bought another PDA when her Zire 22 wouldn’t charge. I asked her why didn’t she tell me as the solution could be an easy one. Nonetheless, I told her to try a soft reset and then a hard reset. She said she was charging the new one and then was going […]

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Easily Remove Tracks from On-the-Go Playlists…While You’re On-the-Go!

I love the On-the-Go playlist on my iPod but have added a song or two by accident I didn’t want in my list. Well now thanks to shadownight’s post at macosxhints, I can remove them on-the-spot instead of having to wait when I get back to my Mac and delete it via iTunes.
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Get That Motorola RAZR v3c to Sync Your Calendar with Your Mac

It’s a well known fact that Verizon is not a friend of the Bluetooth camp. It likes to retard the Dail-up Networking (DUN) feature as well any file transferring (OBEX Exchange). Sometimes you find just simple syncing isn’t the easiest thing in the world, either.
Some find iSync and RAZRs compatibility less […]

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Easy to Read iPod Reset Guide (and More)

Ever need to hard reset your iPod and you fumbled through that little manual that came with your DAP or better yet, you Googled for the solution? Google and fumble no more because Command-Tab has got you covered with an easy to use guide. Simply select your desired action — hard reset, diagnostic […]

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Detecting Vibrators And Alarm LEDs Programmatically

Sometimes, you really need to know if the handheld that your app runs on has a vibrator or a alert LED. These routines can help you:

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How To Delete Files That Don’t Want To Be Deleted

Mostly you can delete files using the launcher, but sometimes some databases are locked and you can’t delete them. In this case - many of you should know - you can try a warm reset. You have to press and hold the up key, and then push the reset button. But sometimes apps are still […]

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Fix That Dead Pixel

I remember my first laptop. It was an AST 900n and I was mighty proud of that 486 Dx2 with its nice and large LCD screen. I got all sorts of oohs and aahs in my university classes. But one day my smile became a frown when a pixel burned out. […]

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Two Extra Megs Of RAM For TE2 Users

RAM is precious - this is clear for most of us. Anyway, people who use a Tungsten E2 and don’t need the Blazer Browser (I almost prefer WebPro 3.5 so far) can regain two megabytes by removing those programs (by the way, a hard reset brings them back).