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BlackBerry QuickKeys and Shortcuts

September 25, 2009

Every Day Quick Tips Alt+O = Outbox (sent items) Alt+I = Inbox (received items) Alt+U = Marks messages as read/unread Alt+P = Phone call log Alt+S = SMS messages Alt+V = Voicemail messages Alt+M = MMS messages. U – to cycle through unread messages Once inside the message and you need to: Reply, r. Forward, [...]

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How to repair a VMWare Virtual Disk on OSX

September 9, 2009

If your having an issue with your virtual disk it is worth trying the following: Open a Terminal window /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmware-vdiskmanager -R /Users/(USERNAME_HERE or Directory where VM installed)/Virtual\ Machines.localized/Windows\ Vista.vmwarevm/Windows\ Vista.vmdk If this fails with a message like ‘FILE: FileIO_Lock on ‘/Users/Shared/Virtual Machines.localized/Windows Vista.vmwarevm/Windows Vista.vmdk’ failed: Lock timed out’ then: cd /Users/(USERNAME_HERE or Directory [...]

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HTC Touch Pro2 – The Bad Points

July 17, 2009

Thought I’d highlight the bad points of an otherwise excellent device. no D-Pad Serious lack of buttons you can’t customise the buttons Web browsing isn’t as good as IPhone No voice dialing software bundled. The HTC Touch Flo interface is really nice, but gets in the way of my email. The memory card is located [...]

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Mino HD Review

May 12, 2009

I got my Flip Mino HD at the end of March and have been playing with it for a little over a month. I recently took it on holiday and found it a perfect extension to my SLR when I did not have the video camera around; I found it a real moment device, as [...]

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Cookie Sniffing and Trading

May 7, 2009

What does that mean? There are networks of  companies  who create cookies on your machine and use these to track  your behaviour  across multiple websites.                         And in English? You will see ad  based content on one site based on  your activity on another and you won’t even  know it  happened.                         Who invented   it? [...]

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Strategic Design- The good, the bad and the ugly

March 13, 2009

Not all of a large system will be well designed and this can pull your attention in multiple directions.  The goal is to have the most important part s of the system well designed – strategic design. Take two loosely coupled systems that have grown independently, but are starting to move toward interaction.  The decision [...]

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Phases in a developers life

March 13, 2009

Phases in a developers life Enthusiastic -  build programs for real people – but its boring and uncool The disillusioned developer – you figure real people have boring problems Build generic solutions there cool, become an enthusiastic architect – build the generic thing machine But that takes loads of time and everyone else is still [...]

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A story about a technical architect – Pimp my architecture

March 13, 2009

A great architect will: be a coach be an expert – have instinct be an influencer have the ability to understand what’s in place and tell stories about it have empathy to understand what is true for others not just self have humility and humor have technological and social curiosity Prologue An architect often turns [...]

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