As regulars will know, last year sometime I bought a new PDA all bright and shiny new and proudly brought it home to play. It’s all worked perfectly… more or less… pictures are pretty good, notes, contact lists etc all fine. Just one little eensy weensy niggle. It wouldn’t synchronise its data with any of … More Finally… the PDA is sync'd!
The spelling in the posts has been dreadful for ages. I *do* ‘proof read’ buy I do it so quickly mistakes often slip through. I used to use the Google spell checker which is a part of their most excellent toolbar but somehow it seemed to barf when I used it with wordpress under XP… … More Google spiel chucker.
Ok… I got fed up so nagged the wife into letting me buy a new machine. It’s downstairs and needs unpacking and setting up but otherwise seems ready to go. When it’s up and configured I’ll be back… loads to talk about including of course what I bought and why. It should be up and … More New machine on the way!
My friend the The Phantom Staple Remover has kindly braved the cold wet weather in the UK and forwarded all the posts missing because of the server crash…Â and for that we say a *very* appreciative thank you. 🙂 I’ll have a quick read/edit (where appropriate) and get them uploaded.
No word yet of whether the insurance will cover the PDA or not. On the assumption it *won’t* I went off to look at the iJam JasJam… which is the Telstra ‘NextG’ offering. This is the only one easily available (i.e. via rental) that is similar in spec to the one that I lost. It’s … More PDA update
Just discovered this amazingly useful little site that will crop your photos to size online and for free. The site is called ‘ImageCrop.Com‘ – as you’d expect – and the sevice is entirely free. I’ve used it and it works just fine! Part of the purpose in writing this is to remind myself where it … More Got an image to resize?
Like I said earlier… I bought a USB box to use to access the old HDD but so far I’ve not been able toget into it. All I see is one part of the Toshiba configuration and none of the files etc behind it. Â I’ll ring the support guy and ask if this is … More Oh bugger.
After getting the wife to buy me a new PDA, I finally discovered a new repairer of the old machine! Grrr… they’re up in Queensland, and when I rang for a quote they said oooh…. around $200 or so… agghh…!! I *have* to repair is as it originally cost around $1500 and the new one … More Just to add to the merriment
Went over to Danka and picked it up. Total repair cost was $1,094.94 which included a new DVD drive ($600), an 80Gig disk ($268.18) and a 2.5″ disk ‘enclosure’ (i.e. box) for the old disc. Labour was $72.22.  Not cheap but less than buying a new one… or even buying a new desktop. On … More So I got the Toshiba back!
Had a call Friday afternoon telling me the laptop is fixed and ready to be paid for and collected. Once I have that I’ll be well sorted. The problems with the lappie were legion including a failed DVD writer, a failed HDD and a collapsing OS 🙂 The reason I needed it repaired… at the … More Well the lappie's fixed.
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