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We just instituted a policy at work of everyone with a mobile device such as an iPhone or Blackberry having it time out and lock with a password.

One of the Blackberry users reported to me that his Blackberry no longer vibrated to alert him to new messages when it was in the locked state.

I did a little testing and found that if you edit the profile you're using (in my case, the "Normal" profile) so that it always vibrates both in and out of the holster to alert you to new desktop messages, it fixes the problem.

Here's exactly what to do:

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I heart the internet. Did you know that if you're viewing your message list on a blackberry and you want to jump to the top of the list you just type "T" and to jump to the bottom type "B"?

The internet told me that.

Thanks, RIM!

Blackberry Support - Tips

Wow, I am in love with online forums lately. I couldn't get the header row to repeat in a table I made just now though I don't remember ever having a problem before. Check out this tip from this forum, which solved my problem!

The easy trap to fall into is the "Floating Table" trap. Go to Table>Properties and check that Text Wrapping is set to "None". If it isn't, the table is floating ion the graphics layer of the document, it's
not part of the text page, and header replication does not operate.

Nice! Thanks, internet.

If you screw up like I did and forget to export a file from Pages on your Mac as a Word document (or some other Windows-readable file) look at this great tip I found online in a forum!:

You just need to open the .pages file in winzip or winrar. In essence,.pages is a group of files. You will see all of them in winzip or winrar. One of them is preview.pdf. All you need to do is to extract it. It retains all the text and, best of all, all the formatting. This will allow you to print. However, if you want to edit it, it is getting a little complicated. You will have to download a PagesConverter from the Internet and use it to open the .xml file. You then can convert it to .txt file.

All I needed was the pdf so this worked perfectly! I just renamed my file with a .zip extension and easily found the preview pdf which was perfect. Thanks, universe!

p.s. Here is a link to the forum about viewing/accessing Pages documents on a PC.

Everything in the sidebar at the moment is authored by one robreed, to be edited at a later time by me. I think most people reading this are aware that I don't harbor an intense hatred for Facebook. Ha ha.

I hate it. I don't understand it. I don't enjoy it. I really wish people would stop doing it. I feel like I'm being transported back in time anytime I'm forced to do it.

Does everyone know about this magical thing called "email"? You can actually type whole sentences! And you can spell the word "see" just like I did there, instead of "c".

OMG.

That is all.

So I was all happy because my friend Patrick posted some really old cute photos on Facebook of us from when we were little little kids and I wanted to comment on them, etc., but for hours now I can't get on because:

Account Unavailable
Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Yeah, inconvenient indeed. This sent robreed on a rant about why Facebook sucks and you shouldn't replace the entire web with one thing like Facebook because it would never be the case that the whole web is down, etc.

Good thing I have this blog. ;)

Anyway, yeah, stuff like that pisses me off and makes me want to punch Facebook in the face.

Just trying one out while I wait for someone to come help me buy one. The track pad is really awesome actually. It's huge and the feel of the glass is nice. At least I like it, I'm not sure how it's being reviewed. I am so happy that the laptops aren't white plastic anymore! It's so easy to ruin!

Watch this awesome video Rob made comparing the commercial Apple put out to tout the speed of the 3G network for the new iPhones... he compares it to the actual operation of the same tasks on a real iPhone in the real world on the real 3G network.

Dude, this is so cool!