CategoryGadgets / Hardware

Installing Onavo removes Personal Hotspot option on Three

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I tend to use the personal hotspot (tethering) feature on my iPhone every week or so (while out at meetings, it’s handy to connect laptop if there’s no wifi available) Recently, I stumbled across Onavo Essentially this compresses mobile data before it’s sent to your device, to reduce your data usage, and speed up your browsing etc… I installed the app, and it creates a...

Dell Latitude E5500 – Windows was unable to connect to <network name>

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Having taken delivery of a new E5500, we configured the machine (not that it took much effort, as it came with none of the usual “crap” that is pre-installed") and attempted to connect it to our WiFi in the office. Every time it returned “Windows was unable to connect to CrocusWiFi” Our network is nothing out of the ordinary – We use a plain old Belkin F5D7632 router, with WPA2-Personal...

iOS 4 Supports multiple Exchange Accounts

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With the release of iOS 4, you can have multiple Exchange accounts set up to push Mail, Contacts and Calendars to your iPhone. I already have my personal email set up as an Exchange account on my iPhone, which works great, however, at work, we use Google Apps for Mail (and calendars etc..) Currently, I have to use iCal to get my work calendar from Google Apps shown on the iPhone, and there’s no...

Dell E6400 Screen Flicker – Caused by display cable?

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Last week, I started having trouble with my Dell E6400 Notebook. There is an intermittent “flashing” on the screen – kind of a “solarising” of the colours, and flickering – it also displayed as “split screen” – split horizontally, displaying the same image top and bottom, but at very low resolution. See flickering / solarising: Sometimes, the screen would turn off, flash black, and...

Fitting a backlit keyboard to a Dell E6400

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Both of the Dell E6400 laptops I’ve owned came without the backlit keyboard (first one was stolen in Ibiza) So, both times, I have retro-fitted a backlit keyboard. The process is simple, and I’ll show you how below. They don’t need any drivers – they light up when you press a key, and dim to save battery after a minute or so. Dell provides a Service Manual, with good instructions on doing this...