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How to get MSL from Sprint for Photon

Wednesday, 2012.04.04 J.D. H. Leave a comment

I purchased my Motorola Photon from Amazon for $0.01 USD during their “March Madness” sale. I love the phone, however, I have encountered one problem: difficulty in getting the 6 digit MSL number I knew that calling Sprint and asking for the MSL was an option, but I generally despise calling corporations and I knew there were some well known other methods that are done exclusively on the phone itself. So I tried the following methods: #1 root & then getprop

Download ShootMe 0.8.1.apk [latest for Android]

Wednesday, 2012.04.04 J.D. H. 8 comments

Here is a mirror of the highly useful ShootMe screen capture app for rooted Android users: [download id=”10478″ format=”1″] [download id=”10478″ format=”1″] NOTE: this app did not work on my rooted Motorola Photon Android phone, but it does work extremely well for many other rooted phones! PS if you download the APK and use the ShootMe app, please rate it in the comments on a scale of 1 to 5. Thanks! Current rating: [starreview tpl=16] Frequently searched for: shootme apk enterupload, shootme

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Power outage in Springfield MO caused by drunk driver

Tuesday, 2012.04.03 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Here is yet another good reason not to drink and drive: Battlefield was also totally blocked off as power crews worked to repair the damage… Top Search Terms:power outage battlefield mo june 9 2025 (7)springfield mo power outage 2012 (2)power outage +springfield, mo +april 2012 (1)power line springfield mo battlefield (1)power line pole (1)https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/power-outage-in-springfield-missouri-caused-by-drunk-driver/ (1)drunk driver springfield april 3 (1)drunk driver hits power line oct 17 (1)springfield outtage (1)april 3rd power outage in springfield mo (1)

Motorola Bionic / Photon webtop/lapdock cables and hacks

Monday, 2012.04.02 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Some misc links, threads and products related to interfacing Moto’s lapdocks with various Moto phones: Lapdock Extension Cableshttp://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-razr-maxx/202185-lapdock-extension-cables.htmlLapdock Extension Cables OK, so I was p*ssed that my Razr Maxx could not dock properly in my Lapdock 100 (like my Bionic) for ease of moving it around as a true netbook on your… Motorola ATRIX 4G Upgrade Kit-1 Micro HDMI To Micro HDMI+Micro USB To Micro USB | eBayhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Motorola-ATRIX-4G-Upgrade-Kit-1-Micro-HDMI-Micro-HDMI-Micro-USB-Micro-USB-/140729362204?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item20c41fa71c#ht_2322wt_1021Cell Phones & PDAs > Cell Phone & PDA Accessories > Cables &

Disable CTRL-ALT hotkey rotation on Win 7 w/Intel video

Monday, 2012.04.02 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Links: Screen Rotation on INTEL graphics cardshttp://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/4500-screen-rotation-intel-graphics-cards.htmlWindows Thread, Screen Rotation on INTEL graphics cards in Technical; I have made an MSI patch to prevent the CTRL+ALT+UP / DOWN / LEFT /RIGHT hotkey(s). It disables the intel… Disabling Screen Rotation Hotkeys – Windows 7 Forumshttp://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/195664-disabling-screen-rotation-hotkeys.htmlHi, I would like to disable the hotkeys for rotating screen (ctrl+alt+arrows) but I cannot. In fact, I right clicked on desktop and from Graphic Options I chose Hot Keys and then… [end] Top Search Terms:disable intel

Dell Vostro V131 Review

Sunday, 2012.04.01 J.D. H. Leave a comment

NOTE: This is a first draft / outline. The review will be updated with more info and photos… Startup time and hard drive Slow startup with conventional hard drive and a bit of bloatware (trend micro, Dell utilities) Hard drive space from factory: 262GB free of 283GB Cooling and fan noise It has one dinky little cooling fan. Small fan = has to spin fast. So when the fan kicks in you really notice it. Thankfully, the fan is not on

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NZBMatrix down!

Friday, 2012.03.30 J.D. H. 2 comments

They have a rather nasty database error message showing tonight: Table ‘./nzbmatri_nzb00matrix01sql/users’ is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed 🙁 NOTES: The nzbmatrix.com frontpage will actually load if you are NOT logged in, so the damage may be limited to just the users table Someone at NZBMatrix is probably going to need to restore the user table from a backup I’m betting on the restore occurring in the morning when they wake up and see the issue (and perhaps lots