Archive for November, 2008
Can you hear me now? Know when your email got to their BlackBerry.
Nov 26th
I just love hearing “oh sorry, I didn’t get your email” as a response when I ask someone for a response for the third time. Especially when I know that person has a BlackBerry. When it’s from users on my BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) I usually just create a help desk ticket from their “oh I didn’t get your email” response, and then attach a screen shot of the BES log showing that it was in fact delivered to their BlackBerry.
Then they forget that I can do this, and in a few weeks I have to repeat the whole thing. But what do you do when the person you’re sending email to doesn’t have a BES, or is not on your network?
Apparently the good folks at RIM are one step ahead of me, as they have a solution to this nonsense built in. Keeping in mind that this will only work with actual BlackBerry devices (I’ve confirmed that it works with a BES server, and using the BlackBerry Redirector for peeps without a BES), send a email to the address that gets delivered to the BlackBerry with <confirm> as the subject, and in a few moments you should get a reply that looks something like this:
As you’ll see in the screen shot, you can use this functionality with an actual subject, or by sending just <confirm> as the subject (just make sure that <confirm> is the first thing on the subject line). The really awesome part of this is that unless the recipient knows what the <confirm> tag in the subject line does, they have no idea that you now know that the email was delivered to their device. Take note smarmy sales weasels: I see what you did there.
Check out more from our Joe at his blog Joe-IT here.
Tivo Scheduling on My Mobile Phone! For Real.
Nov 25th
I have been using my TiVo series 2 with on-line scheduling for years now but it was always cumbersome to say the least on my Windows Mobile. Now just in time to enjoy my HTC Fuze AkA The HTC Touch Pro… All you need to do is point your browswer to http://m.tivo.com , log-in and select your DVR.
That’s it – and in return it will let you search, schedule and set-up season passes! Sweet. Stay tuned for some Tivo + WHS Geeky Goodness!
And if you are into Satellite radio like XM check out this page chock full of deals!
Why is Outlook 2007 showing red Xs instead of my pictures?
Nov 25th
We got this message from Fred early in the AM. I guess its great for him that we don’t sleep past 7AM anymore!
I am using Outlook 2007. When I get email the pictures show as Red boxes with “X”’s in them. I used to be able to right click on the boxes and download the pictures. Now for some reason, I right click but the pictures don’t download. I don’t get the option to download a second time so the system must think the pictures are showing. Please help.
We went back and forth trying to enable and disable security options inside Outlook and Internet Explorer but we weren’t having any luck. I didn’t want our faithful reader to start bashing his head against the monitor. So I said screw it and went a’ looking for the registry value. Here is what I wrote back to Fred:
Found the solution, it is a registry entry called BlockHTTPImages found at this location.
\HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\BlockHTTPImages
change the value 1 to 0 (zero) and reboot. All your images should have returned.
I was sure that was going to resolve our early morning Outlook hi-jinks and it sure did! Here was Fred’s final response:
YOU DID IT!!!! I don’t know how to thank you. This has been driving me nuts! I found that a lot of people are having the same problem (from reading other forums) and nobody had a solution. Thanks again. Fred
Re-Calibrating uTorrent For Maximum Download Speeds
Nov 25th
For many, this is pretty basic stuff, –even common sense. For others, not so much. First of all, determine whether or not you’ll need to set up port forwarding for your connection to remain stable and useful. In essence, find out whether or not you’re on a router. Or just open uTorrent real quick; look at the bottom of the window.
There should be small chambers along the bottom: DHT: (nodes); a symbol indicating your connection status; D: downloading stats; U: uploading stats. Double click the symbol indicating your connection status, –if it’s a green check mark, you don’t need port forwarding.
Otherwise, double click, and then click the button on the pop up that says “Test if port is forwarded properly”. Your browser will open to a window or tab that states your IP and what the status of your port is. It will plainly tell you if your port is not correctly forwarded or if it is. If it isn’t, check out Portforward.com, –they give step by step tutorials for even the worst techno-tard.
Once your port is correctly forwarded, or if it already is, follow these steps to make uTorrent download at the best speeds:
Open uTorrent -> Options -> Preferences -> Bandwidth
Set Maximum Upload Rate to 20 kbp/s
Set Maximum Download Rate to 0 (unlimited)
Set Global Maximum Number of Connections to 800
Set Global Maximum Number of Peers Connected Per Torrent to 125
Set Maximum Number of Upload Slots Per Torrent to 25
Click Apply -. OK
And you’re all set!
Written for AskTheAdmin by Vernon Southward from DevicePedia.com
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