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How to reset a Sony Ericsson

March 11th, 2009 by dansnell · 3 Comments

My Sony Ericsson K660i crashed on me the other day. For some reason it was freezing on start up. Due to this it also meant I was unable to get through the menu to the Master Reset. Unfortunately there is also no key combination or hidden button that might perform this task. This seemed like [...]

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Tags: Mobile



Installing OS X without a functioning optical drive

July 28th, 2008 by dansnell · 1 Comment

I recently gave my old powerbook to my sister in law. I had a lot of information on it and so I planned to transfer all my files and do a clean install. One problem the dvd drive on my old powerbook is broken. It would continually spit the installation disk out. Fortunately I have [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Laptops · Mac · OS & Servers · Tutorials / Training · quick & easy tips

iMac start up issue

July 10th, 2008 by dansnell · No Comments

This morning we had a problem starting our Intel iMac. It was turning on but all that was happening was the white power light on the front was lit up. I tried the usual things like
unplugging all the peripherals - nope
unplugging everything and waiting 15 minutes and plugging the power, keyboard and mouse back in [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Mac



Tell Window’s “No to all”

April 15th, 2008 by dansnell · 1 Comment

It’s always been a help to be able to click yes to all when copying files in Windows XP. But what if you want to say No to all. For most of us we just have to click No repeatedly. Quite an annoyance if there are a lot of files. However there is a way [...]

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Tags: OS & Servers · quick & easy tips