scansnap s300

Just borrow this from my friend, is really small and portable and the best thing about this is it can do duplex scanning with auto paper feeder and can be powered using your laptop through usb cable. Is actually quite fast also especially when you use power from the wall socket.


Video showing scanning 16 pages (duplex) of colour document when this scanner is powered by usb


Video showing scanning 16 pages (duplex) of colour document when this scanner is powered by wall socket. Is extremely fast in this setup.

Nokia E71 - Removing Failed

Symptom: Try to uninstall application from your phone using Application Manager but encounter "Removing Failed" message.

Possible solution:

1. Take out your micro-sd card and read the card through PC.
2. Make sure you enable show hidden files and folders option.
3. Go to private folder, search all the random number named folder and once you find the application file(s), delete the folder contain the file(s).
   

Have to take some time to go through all the folders

Why deleted folder keep appearing?

Had you ever encountered this weird scenario, after deleting a folder, and you make sure it is completely gone, and after a while, this folder mysteriously appear again? This indeed happen to me and after i read this, then i realize my problem is because of Windows Media Player. Apparently i set the "Rip music to this location" to the folder i want to delete and whenever you open your Windows Media Player, it will try to recreate this folder for you, talking about trying to be helpful... So the solution, change the path to a permanent location. Hope this helps if you encounter the similar problem. :)

Go to Tools->Options->Rip Music and change the path to a permanent folder

Missing Microsoft RDP Client Control

System: On a fresh install Windows XP SP3 system with all the Windows update

Symptom:
When try to use IE7 to initiate a terminal service connection, you find that it won't work and you see a little pop-up message saying Add-ons disabled.

Add-on Disabled message

When you go to Manage Add-ons, you find no Add-ons are disabled and you also cannot see the Microsoft RDP Client Control Add-on.

Everything enabled?

Solution:
Go to Internet Option and go to Advanced tab, click on the Reset button to reset Internet Explorer settings. Restart the Internet Explorer and retry again and this time it should work.

Click on Reset button

After restart your Internet Explorer, you can see Microsoft RDP Client Control!

Free LineRider Mobile

There is this promotion going on from SymbianGear where you can download this game for free from 24 - 26 December 2008. Click this link to find out.

Why i can't use my Nokia E71 as modem?

I had experienced this issue for quite a while and only today i manage to solve it. My problem is because i disabled the telephony service (think i disabled last time as i think i will never use it). So if you having the same issue when you just can't seem to use your phone as your modem. This might be a solution for you.

To check whether your telephony service is enabled, follow the following steps

1. For Windows XP, click Start, click Run, type services.msc in the Open box, and then click OK. For Windows Vista, click Start, type services.msc in the Start Search box, and then press enter.
2. Double-click Telephony.
3. On the General tab, click your Startup type box, if is Disabled, change it to Manual and then click OK.

This virtual machine appears to be in use

For VMWare Workstation 6.0, when you do not shut down your virtual machine cleanly, you might encounter this prompt (as shown) when you try to use the virtual machine again.


The solution to this problem is simple, just go to your virtual machine directory, remove any folder with extension *.lck.