Information Technology

T-Mobile Customer Support at It’s Best

Jan 29th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

This morning, my Nexus One stopped receiving emails. When I tried to refresh my Exchange inbox on the phone, I got a “cannot connect” error. Powering down and rebooting did not help. Any attempt to browse the web would just bring up the page shown below.
I called the T-Mobile Customer Support number while at a restaurant waiting for my [...]



Top 10 Android Issues – For Future Nexus One Owners

Jan 19th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

My Nexus One was listed on eBay twice, but I cancelled the auction each time. That’s the kind of love-hate relationship I have with my phone. I finally decided to keep it and love it, but I cannot stop browsing the issues on the Android site so that I can at least hate it a [...]



Bye-Bye Nexus One

Jan 12th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Open Source, Smartphone

I guess it was too good to be true. A phone that does everything that I want and need and could possibly ask for and is not an iPhone? Not the Nexus One. Or at least, not yet. Mine went on eBay today, and I hope that I will be at least able to get [...]



Internet Explorer (IE) 8 Deadlock

Jan 11th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Web

I frequently run into this very annoying bug in IE. I configured the browser to ask before writing cookies of unknown sites. When I hit a site that has both a Javascript error and a cookie warning popping up, there is a deadlock situation, since neither of the dialog boxes responds to input. The only [...]



Google’s Nexus One for (potential) Windows Mobile converts

Jan 10th, 2010 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

If you, like myself, resisted all the peer pressure out there for joining the iPhone crowd, and instead held on to that funky Windows Mobile device, this may be of interest to you.
Microsoft had an opportunity with Windows Mobile 6.5 to set the first step of the many needed for maintaining the gap between its [...]



Why it is worth waiting for the Google Nexus One

Dec 27th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

Time has come to replace my T-Mobile Shadow. I am no longer under contract, and the phone is no longer cutting-edge technology. My wife needs a new phone as well. The Verizon Droid has been creating some buzz for a while, so I started looking into what I’d be able to get for my money right [...]



Forms Authentication – Custom Membership Provider Gotchas

Sep 17th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Software Engineering

Forms Authentication is a very useful feature of the Asp.net framework. Unfortunately, in its default configuration, the requirements for password length and strength, security question, and some of the other options are too strict for most low-end web applications and Intranets.
So, if you are new to this subject and try to find information on the [...]



Windows 7 – Tips & Tricks

Sep 8th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Information Technology

Renaming multiple files
In Windows 7 you no longer need to open a command shell or resort to 3rd party tools for renaming a list of files. Just highlight the files to rename, right-click, select Rename, rename one file, et voilà, Windows applies the new file name pattern to all selected files:
This was apparently already possible in [...]



Windows 7 on ASUS P5NSLI

Aug 23rd, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Information Technology

My 3 year-old desktop computer at home is based on the Asus P5NSLI motherboard. It has a 3GHz Dual-core Pentium processor, 3GB of RAM, and a RAID-0 configuration with 2 SATA disks for my data (the OS is on a single non-RAID drive). I have 2 GForce 7600 GL graphics cards, not so much because [...]



Samsung Blackjack 2 and T-Mobile

Jul 29th, 2009 | By Christian Donner | Category: Mobile Devices, Smartphone

A user of my TripsnMiles mileage tracker software for Windows Mobile reported display issues on a Blackjack II phone running Windows Mobile 6.1. I was curious to see the problem myself and bought a used phone on Ebay. My application turned out to run just fine on it, so I could have re-sold the phone. [...]