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To set up BlackBerry Internet E-mail via your BlackBerry®, perform the following steps:
Verify that your BlackBerry handheld is connected to the wireless network and is displaying uppercase GPRS in the top right corner. If your device is not displaying uppercase GPRS, go to BlackBerry Internet E-Mail Management and Troubleshooting.
From the BlackBerry handheld Home screen or Tools menu, select the Set Up Internet E-mail or E-mail Setup icon.
If prompted, read the Terms and Conditions, and then select Accept.
Enter your e-mail address and password for the account you would like to access from your BlackBerry handheld. Confirm the password
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Posted: March 6th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Blackberry | Comments Off
The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook allows you to connect your Facebook account to the Outlook Social Connector and obtain information about your friends and colleagues. You can see status updates and recently posted items from your Facebook contacts. You can also use Outlook Social Connector to display a quick view of related Outlook content when you click on an email from a contact, such as recent e-mail conversations, meetings, and shared attachments to help you easily track your communications NOTE: The Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider requires Microsoft Outlook Social Connector and the related update (
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Posted: February 29th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Facebook | Comments Off
Backups help ensure that your files aren’t permanently lost or damaged. With automatic backups, you don’t have to remember to back up your files. You can change your automatic backup settings (such as how often you back up, the type of storage you use, or the types of files you back up) whenever you want.
To set up automatic backupsIf you’ve never used Windows Backup before, the Windows Backup wizard automatically creates a schedule for you, which you can change.
Open Backup and Restore by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, and then clicking Backup and Restore.
Click Set up
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Posted: February 28th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Operating Systems | Comments Off
If you search for items in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and do not receive the results that you expect, the indexing of your Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office system data files (the search catalog) may not be complete.
You can rebuild the search catalog, which restarts the indexing of your data files. To rebuild your search catalog, do the following:
Exit Outlook.
Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.
Do one of the following:
Windows Vista Click System Maintenance, and then click Indexing Options.
if you are in Classic view, double-click Indexing Options.
Microsoft Windows XP Under See Also, cl
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Posted: February 27th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Computers / IT, Office Suite | Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, Outlook 2007 | No Comments »
If you are a pro computer user and lot many times you feel that so many applications are running on your computer. Lot many windows opened and these running applications and slowing down your PC. If you go ahead and close each of them one by one, it will involve around 15 – 20 clicks or more. Windows users can close all running applications on single click by using a very tiny application. Close All is a small utility developed by Ntwind Software which can close al running applications at one click.
Close All doesn’t need any kind of installation on your computer. You just need to download the zipped folder and extract it on your
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Posted: February 27th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: General, Operating Systems | Comments Off
Sometimes you will see your computer getting restarted or shutdown automatically without any instruction from your side. This is a frustrating scenario when you are working on some important stuff and your computer restarts without any notice. Of course this is an improper restart or shutdown and may damage your computer’s hardware like Hard Disk or may damage your Operating System like Windows. This is a common problem in old computers specially PCs i.e. computers running on Windows OS. But there may be different reasons for this common problem. Here are some of the reasons which may cause frequent auto restart or shutdown of your PC.
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Posted: February 26th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: General, Operating Systems | Comments Off
Ever had the problem when windows system does not give you sound and audio suddenly or despite sound card or audio device is present and working previously? Windows XP, 2000, NT, 2003 or even Vista computers may lose Windows audio and system sounds output due to the mess on file system or registry that created or left by third party utilities after installation and uninstallation, or corrupted and missing codecs, (a CODEC is a component necessary to decompress and decode media files so that can be playback by Windows system).When the Windows “no sound problem occurs”, the symptoms include users do not hear any Windows system sound
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Posted: February 23rd, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Operating Systems | Comments Off
Whether you are trying to access your home PC from your office, or your office workstation from home, you need to establish a remote desktop connection over Internet. Many times accessing a remote computer is not so easy. For instance there could be firewalls blocking access, or the two PCs could be on different OS not compatible with each other, and so on.
In these kind of scenarios, TeamViewer comes to rescue. This free for non-commercial usage tool lets you quickly connect to a remote machine, control it completely including reboot/logoff, do audio and video chat, transfer files, and so on. While there are other desktop sharing applicatio
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Tips & Tricks | Comments Off
Recently, there has been a lot of fuss over facebook & twitter accounts getting hacked. I just thought of pointing out some important points to be kept in mind while dealing with this situation.90% of such incidents occur due to carelessness of people who tend to click on suspicious/unknown links. Well I don’t blame them as it is pretty tricky method and depends on how alert a person is. Definitely, by now many of you must have made it a habit to change your password frequently. If not, make it a practice starting from now.
The most frequently used method used to hack accounts is the Fake Login Page method. This method involves Social E
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Posted: February 20th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Facebook | Comments Off
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