Tech Dreamer

By Doug Gross, CNN (CNN) — An auto-focus camera? Not new. Not exciting. A camera that lets you focus after you’ve already taken the photo? And lets you focus anywhere within the image you want? That’s got people talking and, according to its creator, is the start of “a picture revolution.” Oh yeah — it can [...]

Recently I came across an instance where the SMS/MMS Icon was missing from a Blackberry Pearl 8100. After searching through the internet and trying all the various solutions, including restoring the phone to factory settings (which did restore the SMS icon), as soon as I restored the backup, the icon disappeared. Seeing this, I decided to [...]

If you get the following error when you are trying to burn a DVD using Nero Burning ROM or Nero Express, ‘File is larger than 2GB and cannot be stored in an ISO file system. Please use the UDF file system to write large files. This can be done by selecting another compilation type.’ most [...]

WARNING: The battery cannot be identified. This system will be unable to charge this battery. If you have gotten that message on your Dell laptop and you are wondering how to fix it then you are in the right place. Some users with Dell laptops like the Dell Inspiron 1501 and the Dell Vostro 1000 [...]

Google has launched a new service that will allow you to track the location of friends and family via their mobile phone. Dubbed Latitude, the service is an add-on to the latest version of the Google Maps mobile software. Video available here. The service automatically detects your location – either via mobile base station triangulation [...]

Most webmasters looking to make some cash through their websites have probably heard of Google AdSense. According to Google Adsense: It offers a contextual advertising solution to web publishers and delivers text-based Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages. It’s not an easy task to make it as one of the top [...]

Good news for free users of Rapidshare.com. You only have to wait 45 seconds between downloads and you no longer have to enter a Captcha Code. The downside to all of this is that you are limited to a download speed of 500 kilobits per second which works out to about 62.5 kilobytes per second [...]

When you log into Hotmail with the latest version of Firefox 3, I’m sure that you encounter the following error: “You are temporarily on the classic version of Windows Live Hotmail due to an error encountered during login. Before trying again, please clear your cache and cookies.” I know this must be very frustrating, especially [...]

First off let me apologize for my absence on the blog but I’m back now. Since I’ve started using Mozilla Firefox with my Windows Live Hotmail account, I’ve noticed that horizontal white lines have been appearing on in-line images in my e-mails while scrolling down. The slower that I would scroll, the more white lines [...]

RapidShare.com has put a new CAPTCHA system in place that asks for free users to solve an extraordinary new CAPTCHA image. In order to download the file, you will need to decipher which letter has the image of a cat on it and input those into the box. The other image used by RapidShare.com is [...]