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Bluetooth Enable on Dell Inspiron 6400

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I bought a Dell bluetooth card for my Inspiron 6400 so I could sync my PDA with my Laptop. The card seemed to work well with Vista. However, my ipaq HX-4700 would not agree to perform a bluetooth sync, so I figured I wasted my money. When I upgraded the hard drive on the laptop, I noted the bluetooth did not work, but I really didn’t care — until I replaced my HX-4700 with a Samsung SCH-i760. Bluetooth sync was looking attractive again, but I couldn’t get that bluetooth card in my Inspiron to work. Although it was activated in the bios, it didn’t exist in the system configuration. And the blue light was out.

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How to boot an iBook G4 with Ubuntu…

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

I am using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to try to boot a Mac iBook (’cause the hd in the mac is whacked). So far, it’s been a real challenge. I am learning that nothing is easy on a Mac when they are broken. It makes me chuckle, when people are asking for help in mac forums, there is inevitably someone who says, “Take it into Apple Care and let them fix it.” If someone was willing to pay for Apple Care, why would he or she be requesting help on a forum?

After a considerable time of searching, I found instructions on the Ubuntu Forums, but none of them worked for this Mac. Finally, adjusting the steps along the way, I found a procedure that works for me:

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Bluetooth Keyboard Review

Friday, April 11th, 2008

When we do presentations on the big screen, we sometimes want to do some navigating and even editing that a standard presentation mouse does not afford. As such, we use a wireless keyboard so we can make changes on the fly. There have been times when, realizing something needed to be changed within the presentation, I’ve blanked the screen and made some edits while someone else is on the platform. It’s very handy.

We recently replaced our Globlink ifree GL3001 wireless keyboard. It usually functioned well, but from time to time it would fail to connect with the receiver, requiring removing batteries, restarting the PC, and doing handsprings and backflips to get it to work again. This failure seemed to happen at the most inopportune moment — as people were arriving for a meeting.

The keyboard we bought to replace the GL3001 is the Logitech diNovo Edge pictured here.

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This bluetooth keyboard worked right out of the box.

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