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Motorola OTA update for Photon (DETAILS)

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Today I received a notification from Motorola about the availability of an OTA (over the air) update for my Photon. Down below you can find the full details.  But first, three important notes: If you have your Photon rooted, reports are that this update removes root. 🙁 There is no mention of a fix for the no-audio problem on Lapdock 500 etc. when using the phone as a WebTop 🙁 This does not update the Photon to ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) 🙁 Details

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Work 1 failed, Error = 504.00 1 1 DVDFab to iPad [solved]

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[starreview tpl=16] I recently received error 504.00 1 1 in DVDFab: This error occurred while trying to use the video converter to convert an MKV to h.264 for use on an iPad (1st generation and 3rd generation). I tried a variety of options in the settings menu and I also perused the forum threads below. What eventually worked was installing the latest beta edition of DVDFab: DVDFab8192QtBeta.exe (dl direct or [download id=”10480″ format=”1″]) After installing the beta version, my video converted successfully! 504.00

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Adjusting color balance on Android phones

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One of the beautiful things about Android devices is that they are so configurable. Case in point, adjusting the color balance on my phone. My Motorola Photon has a nice resolution screen (256 PPI) but I never found it comfortable  to my eyes 🙁 Today I had my Photon setting next to my iPod touch and found that on the Photon screen whites were too white. It really looked less appealing and caused more eyestrain than the otherwise antiquated iPod touch screen.

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Lookup your child’s social security number over the phone? No.

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This ehow article presents some false information: Call the Social Security Administration at (800) 772-1213 and speak to a representative. It may be that you do not need the actual card at this time, because knowing the number is what’s important. The representative will be able to tell you your child’s Social Security number over the phone after verifying your identity. You will be asked for your Social Security number as well as for personal information. http://www.ehow.com/how_5686728_child_s-social-security-number.html You cannot call

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Great tools for understanding, writing and testing mod_rewrite rules

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I have been writing some new mod_rewrite rules for my Pixensity website. The following tools and reference articles have been very helpful. 1st. Mod rewrite generator: http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/ 2nd. Test your RewriteRules for Apache mod_rewritehttp://martinmelin.se/rewrite-rule-tester/ 3rd. Mod_Rewrite and Regular Expressions Apache Web Server forum at WebmasterWorldhttp://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/4332.htm   4th. Cool question and answer from stack overflow (not the top answer, but it worked better for me than the top answer) ([A-Za-z0-9-]+) …which matches letters and numbers. I would also like to match on dashes and

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Get rid of annoying file grouping in a Windows 7 folder view

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If you have a folder that shows groupings of files and you want to get rid of the groupings, here’s how: Go to the folder in question Find a blank area in the file listings and Right Click in the empty space Select the Group By option and select None. (see screenshot below) Voila, you’re done! If you have been struggling with this issue then I hope this helps! 🙂 Top Search Terms:how to get rid of groups in windows explorer (5)windows

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Cool Bluetooth Temperature Sensors: Android, iOS, Cloud

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2013 UPDATE with additional option: Here is a line of some wireless sensor products that are garnering rave reviews! They utilize a manager (ethernet tag manager) device which can communicate with low cost sensors then report the data to your device or the cloud, together it all forms a nice alternative to traditional Bluetooth sensors. Enjoy 🙂 Monitor and Find Everything in Your Home or Office from the Internet – Wireless Sensor Tagshttp://www.mytaglist.com/Wireless sensor tags connect events in physical world, e.g. motion, door/gate

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ViaSat-1 Flyaway mobile internet via SurfBeam 2 Pro Portable Terminal

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A while back I found this reference to the “Flyaway” portable satellite internet kit by ViaSat. It fit the entire dish, modem, and router into a large suitcase and it utilizes the super-fast ViaSat-1 satellite: How ViaSat’s Exede makes satellite broadband not suck | Ars Technicahttp://arstechnica.com/business/2012/01/how-viasats-exede-makes-satellite-broadband-not-suck/The home market isn’t the only target for Exede service. ViaSat is also going after mobile and remote applications, including a satellite “fly-away” kit that packs into a 25-pound, airline-checkable suitcase and can be used to transmit live high-definition

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