HOWTO: Sync Blackberry with Vista Contact Images

I have loyally touted around my Blackberry Curve (8310) now for almost exactly a year now (358 days to be exact). But recently, because of some problems I was having, and an upcoming need for my current contact list to be on my computer I decided I would install the Desktop Manager software and get my Blackberry contacts synced up with my Vista contacts. Support for syncing with Vista contacts was added to the Desktop Manager software in version 4.3, and the current version at the time of this writing is 4.7, so this isn’t a new feature.
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Remove a stuck print job in Windows

I have often recived a call, or gone out to a site where there is a print job stuck in the print que on the server that is holing up everything. You can try to cancel the job at the printer, or at the server. You’ve tried to restart the server and restart the printer but the print job just sits there staring at you the whole time. While not quite as bad as upsetting as the famed “PC LOAD LETTER” error it can still make you want to chuck your printer and/or computer off the roof.

So how do you purge the vexing print que? Its actually easier than you might think. It only takes three lines typed in to your command prompt (you can do it through the Windows GUI too, but its easier this way).

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Vista on an Apple

In January of 2006 I first heard of the availability of getting Windows Mobile on the Palm Treo. Now it doesn’t seem that surprising, but at the time It took me aback. Part of that post, I jokingly said that someday Vista will be available on an Apple. While you can’t actually order an apple from their website with Vista, the newest version of Bootcamp (which didn’t even release in beta until April of 2006, if there were announcements earlier than that, I never heard them) supports running Windows Vista on any current Apple.

Wait … What?

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Next thing you know Windows Vista will be an option on the iBook.

Using a PDA as a Second Monitor

Oh sweet! just doing some browsing on the net for a copy of Windows Vista (previously Longhorn) Beta 1 to download since I dont have an MSDN subscription . No luck on the download, but I did find an article on making an external display (like a feature proposed for Longhorn). I haven’t had a chance to read though everything but it looks very promissing, I’ll let everybody know how it goes.

I even have 2 PDA’s from work (one still works, just doesn’t have a battery) that I have been saving for this kind of a project! Oh perfect world!