Stuck at Belfast City I thought I would have one last go at this. As you can tell by this post I was successful.
From this page here are the important bits.
1. Pair your blackberry to your windows machine, via bluetooth.
2. Set up an Internet APN.
Click Start > Settings > Control Panel
Double-click Phone and Modem Options
In the Phone and Modem Options window, click the Modems tab
Select Standard Modem and click Properties
Click Change Settings
In the Standard Modem Properties window, click the Advanced tab
In the Extra initialization commands field, type the following under CODE:
at+cgdcont=1,”IP”,”internet”
Click OK.
In the Phone and Modem Options window, click OK.
3. To configure dial-up networking, complete the procedure that is appropriate to the operating system you are using:
Click Start
Select Connect To
Click Setup a connection or network
Click Setup a dialup connection
In the Dial-up phone number field type *99#
Type the user name web and password web
In the Connection Name field type BlackBerry
Click Dialing Rules
Make sure the profile created in Task 2 has been selected, and then clickOK
Select Connect to establish an internet connection.
How many hours were lost today in offices around the world. The google home page had a pacman game to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the video game. If you want to try it go to the google home page, but remember it is only for today.
It shows the current position and status of planes over Europe. You can also add labels, see the current position of the volcanix ash cloud, and filter out any of the aircraft based on many parameters.
I regularly fly to Northern Ireland so I use it to check what it happening to those flight paths only, useful to see if the incoming plane is on time.
Back to Luton airport for a trip to Belfast. Thought I would have breakfast at the airport, this time, as I noticed that Pret does porridge. Turns out to be good porridge, I guess because it has been on the heat for a while the oats really get a chance to expand, so the whole thing is much more creamy. I opted for a dollop of honey for £1.99, which means they are making big margins on materials. I get a kg of Tesco value oats for less than a pound, and all you need for a portion of porridge is half a mug full. A bag lasts me a couple of months.
On the way in I stopped off in W H Smiths to get a paper, and noticed that the advertising screen above the tills was showing and error message, as I like to collect public error messages I thought I would share it with you all. It is an AVG anti virus message complaining that the license had run out.
Anyway the plane is about to push off and so am I.
Helen is going to have her 40th birthday party this year, and we have decided have a party to celebrate at a local golf club. I have been designing the invite. We needed a good picture for the front of the card. I used a picture that Marshall drew for Helen for her 21st birthday. First I scanned it then I used Inkscape an opensource vector graphics drawing package t trace round all the bits and colour it in. It was surprisingly easy to do once I got started and had figured out how to do all the bits I needed.
Things are hotting up. After the IE hot fix and the German and French government advice not to use IE. Google takes the chance to gather some momentum for Chrome.
Google wave touted by some to be the next big thing on the internet. I applied for an account but sadly in the latest round of invites I missed out, guess I’ll have to wait for the public launch. But if any of you blog readers have an account if you could send me one of you invites I would be very appreciative. What is wave you ask? Well it is a collaborative document editor that allows users to share and create documents in real time. From the demo videos I have seen you see the participants cursors as the documents develop. I guess in that respect it is also an instant messenger. I imagine that you could use it to organise events with friends, so rather than emails flying around we just create a shared space and start contributing. After the event you could post pictures etc. So also has features currently fulfilled by facebook. Please if you have a spare invite send it to me.
I have not been to good recently at adding posts to the old blog. Today however an email arrived which has compelled me to blog something.
I applied to be a windows 7 launch party host, was successful, and today I got confirmation that DHL have shipped the Windows 7 Signature Edition with free upgrade to 64bit version.
The goodies are actually very nice, Windows 7 tote bags, Windows 7 branded napkins, a puzzle pack, Windows 7 playing cards, a colour poster and of course the piece de resistance, a FULL copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (Steve Ballmer Signature Edition), and an anytime Upgrade to Ultimate Signature 64 bit edition. A nice bonus!
Thanks to all those who accepted the party invites.
