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What if one day, Facebook accidently deleted or banned your account for some reason or another? What if a new social network comes along, and Facebook got shut down? What if you decided to close your Facebook account, but don’t want to lose all the data you’ve placed there? These scenarios may be highly unlikely, but they are very possible indeed.
Everything you put on Facebook resides there. All your status updates, links, photos, notes – everything. So, just like it’s good practice to backup your hard disk, it’s also good practice to have a plan ready to backup Facebook in case something bad goes down. Here are 3 fr
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Posted: January 27th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Facebook, General | Tags: Backup, Facebook | Comments Off
Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible? Here are 15 easy ways to do so.
Defrag regularly - The faster your hard drive does its work – less demand you are going to put on the hard drive and your battery. Make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it regularly. (but not while it’s on battery of course!) Mac OSX is better built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very applicable for Apple systems.
Dim your screen – Most laptops come with the a
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Posted: January 27th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: General | Comments Off
Blackberry Message shortcuts
In a message
Depending on the typing input language that you are using, some shortcuts might not be available.
To reply to a message, press R.
To reply to all in an email message or a PIN message, press L.
To forward a message, press F.
To file a highlighted email message, press I.
To view the email address of a contact, highlight the contact in the To or From field. Press Q. To view the display name, press Q again.
To move to the last cursor position after you close and reopen a received email message or PIN message, press G.
In a message list
To open a highlighted message, press the Enter key.
To compo
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Posted: January 26th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Blackberry | Comments Off
Using keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity, reduce repetitive strain, and help keep you focused. For example, highlighting text with the keyboard and pressing Ctrl + C is much faster than taking your hand from the keyboard, highlighting the text using the mouse, clicking copy from the file menu, and then putting your hand back in place on the keyboard. Below are our top 10 keyboard shortcuts we recommend everyone memorize and use.
Ctrl + C or Ctrl + InsertCopy the highlighted text or selected item.
Ctrl + V or Shift + InsertPaste the text or object that’s in the clipboard.
Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + YUndo any change. For e
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Posted: January 26th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Tips & Tricks | Comments Off
In my opinion the absolute best alternative to windows native WUAUCLT commands
wuauclt.exe /detectnow
wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow
would be the WuInstall (Freeware) Tool. below is a download link and Basic how to on the usage of the Windows Update Install Tool. it gives you more control over your updates.
1. Basic functions
There are three basic switches. Exactly one of them must be specified in order for wuInstall to do something. It makes no sense to specify more than one of those switches (e.g. wuInstall /search /install), because download automatically includes a search and install
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Posted: January 26th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Computers / IT, Operating Systems, Servers, Tips & Tricks | Tags: cli, logs, patching, update, windows, windows update, wsus, wuauclt | 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: January 25th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Facebook | 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: January 25th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Facebook | Comments Off
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: January 24th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Blackberry | Comments Off
To Resolve “HTTP error 413 request entity too large” is received when attempting to browse to a web page using the BlackBerry Browser For BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 4.1 Simply follow these steps.
1. Open BlackBerry Manager.
2. On the left pane, click MDS-CS service.
3. On the right pane, click Edit Properties.
4. In the General section, click Flow Control.
5. Set the Maximum KB/Connection field to a value greater than the size of the page that is being requested. (15 to 20%)
Note: A restart of the MDS Connection Service may be required for settings take effect.
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Posted: January 24th, 2012 | Author: TechTips.co.za | Filed under: Blackberry, Computers / IT, Servers, Tips & Tricks | Tags: Blackberry, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES / BESX) | No Comments »
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