Thursday, November 12, 2009

Find out MAC address of iPhone

To find out the MAC address of your iPhone,
start at the home menu. Select Settings -> General -> About. Scroll down that screen and you’ll see a setting called “Wi-Fi Address”, that is your iPhone MAC address.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Blackberry Task Sync issue

Are you facing Blackberry Task Sync issue? Then try the following.

Wireless Synchronization Option for Tasks Disappeared


Go into Options | Advanced Options | Service Book
Select Desktop[SYNC], hit your menu button, and choose Delete
Next go into Options | Security Options | General Settings, hit the menu button, and choose Regenerate Encryption Key
Go back to the main screen and maybe wait a minute to see if you have arrows going back and forth in the corner
Afterwards go into Service Book again. See if you see a new Desktop[SYNC]. If not, just hit you menu button and choose Undelete
Repeat step 4
See if the wireless sync option comes back

connect MacBook Air to wireless

Find the MAC address on MAC Book Air - your Mac address is AirPort ID
1. Click the Apple menu at the top left of the screen;
2. Click 'About This Mac';
3. Click the 'More Info...' button (this will launch 'System Profiler');
4. Click the 'Network' line item in the left column; In the right panel, under the 'Ethernet' section, you will see the system's MAC address listed

To connect to the network

5. Click on the AirPort icon on the top bar if your MacBook Air does not connect automatically when you turn it on. It will give you a list of wireless networks.
6. Select a wireless network, or choose either "Join Other Network," which will allow you to call up a network you know of in the area and connect to it, or "Create Network," which will allow you to create a computer-to-computer network.
7. Choose or enter the name of the wireless network you wish to join, and enter a network password, if prompted
8. Use your wireless connection

Friday, August 28, 2009

Desktop Shortcut in Quick Launch

1. Paste following code in Notepad and save the file with name "Show Desktop.scf" (including quotes):

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

2. Now you have to copy this new file and paste in "Quick Launch" toolbar

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Identity Restriction not subscribed - message

Are you receiving the above message when making calls?

do the followings

click on the call button, then the menu (Blackberry), then go to option, general option, then Restrict My Identity - make it never.

Enjoy making calls

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Task Manager grayed out

If the above happend, please do the followings

Click Start/Run and enter REGEDIT
Go to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

Look in the right pane for a value called DisableTaskMgr.

If it exists, it should be set to 0 (zero).
If not, double click it and set it to 0.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Enable and Disable Printer Notifications for Local and Network printers

1.Click Start, and then click Printers and Faxes.
2.On the File menu, click Server Properties.
3.On the Advanced click the options you want to apply:
Show informational notifications for local printers. This option notifies
users when a job is printed on a printer that is attached to this computer.
Show informational notifications for network printers. This option notifies
users of this computer when a job is printed on a remote computer.
4.For client computers that are running versions of Windows earlier than
Microsoft Windows 2000 that access the printers on this computer, there are
additional configuration options to choose from:
Notify when remote documents are printed. This option sends a message to the user
who sent a job to a printer that is attached this computer.
Notify computer, not user, when remote documents are printed. This option sends a
message to the computer from which the print job was sent, regardless of which
computer on which the sending user is currently logged on.