Change Windows 7 Key

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  1. Click on the Start Button and type: CMD (into the 'Search programs and files' field in the Start Menu)
  2. The Start Menu will show 'CMD.exe', 
  3. Right-click the CMD.exe file and select Run As Administrator.
  4. In the CMD window, type: slmgr.vbs -ipk <type your product key here>
  5. To activate windows after changing the key, type: slmgr.vbs -ato

Olympic Malware Fraud Alert -

Reports of fake emails, fake websites, and other scams that take advantage of people’s interest in the 2012 Olympics.
Here are our top tips for avoiding spam and malware of any kind:

• Use email that filters spam.
• Defend your PC against malicious software using malware bytes, norton, kaspersky sophos, Mcafee and others
• Make sure you are always up to date with your selcted Malware I suggest running and AV program and a Malware Program.
• Know where you are going and avoid downloading anything you are unsure of or if an e-mail looks suspicious it likely is.  If you don't recognize it Delete it.

Smart Phone Reboot Keys

Do you get frustrated when your smart phone locks up here are ways to reboot it with it removing the battery


BlackBerry Reboot
Reboot your Blackberry Device with out removing the battery
Alt+ ShiftCAP+ Delete will reboot a stuck blackberry


Reset your iPhone when it has locked up: 
To do this, hold the sleep/wake button and Home buttons simultaneously for a few seconds; the display will quickly wipe itself and you should see the black background and white Apple logo, signifying a reset well done.

Rebooting your locked Android Phone
Press the End key + Call key + Menu key at the same

DVD and Video players for Windows

Are you looking for a good program to play DVD's on  your PC or do you want to convert   few DVD's to a format you can watch on your computer.  You might even want to convert a file to a smaller format.

DVD Player and File Players.
The most popular one is Power DVD of course Media Player does a good job as well and is included in Windows.
A nice region free player that plays every file format that is in use
http://www.dvd-x-player.com/


Burning Ripping and Converting
For Ripping DVD's or converting files the easiest programs that I have found to use is Fast DVD Ripper and Fast Video Convertor

You can get the files from the following site
http://www.dvdfast.net/index.html

Other free Video Convertors
http://www.dvd-x-player.com/download.html

There are more out there but these are ones that I have tried and a found easy to learn if you are a beginner or an advanced users you will have no problem with any of these.

How To Rename Desktop Icon on Blackberry

After connecting your Blackberry to a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) to receive your corporate email over a secured connection, the default name given to your corporate inbox is "Desktop." Although this name serves its purpose, it's a bit impersonal. A BES administrator has the ability to do just about everything on your Blackberry from forcing the use of a password to preventing you from downloading new ringtones. However, she cannot change the name of your BES email account on your phone, but you can.

Difficulty:

 

Easy

Instructions

things you'll need:

• USB cable
• Desktop Manager

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  Connect your Blackberry to the computer you use for work by connecting one end of the USB cable to the computer and the other end of the cable to your Blackberry.
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  Open the Desktop Manager software by going to "Start" and then navigating to "Programs," then "Blackberry" on the computer. Every user connected to the BES has Desktop Manager installed on their computers to allow for tethered syncing.
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  Click on "E-Mail Setting" and then click on "Advanced E-Mail Settings." Change the email name to your desired name and then click on "Okay" to update the device in Dessktop 6 Choose Device Options and Enterprise E-mail.
• 4   Disconnect the device from your computer and close the Desktop Manager.
  
  

Cordless phone Frequencies and what they mean to you

Corldess Phones have changed over the years, are you unsure what to buy are you wondering why you have issues with your wireless internet connection at home when someone is on the phone.

The two most common upto a few a years ago were

• 2.4 GHz (allocated in 1998)
• 5.8 GHz (allocated in 2003 due to crowding on the 2.4 GHz band

The 2.4 GHz phone was sold along with the 5.8GHz until recently when both were dropped and replaced with DCET 6.0

The 2.4 GHz phones were dropped since most home wireless devices now use the 2.4GHz range and were causing issues with dropped calls and slow internet connections.

Which one is best for you if you can still find a 5.8GHz phone there are no issues with them however they are hard to find.

The recently allocated 1.9 GHz band is used by the popular DECT phone standard and is considered more secure than the other shared frequencies.  This is a good thing since people with Scanners used to be able to listen in on conversations and you would sometimes end up with cross talk before DCET.

DCET 6.0 brings advantages over The 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz band are increasingly being used for a host of other devices, including baby monitor, microwave oven, Bluetooth, wireless LAN; thus, it is likely that a cordless phone will suffer interference from signals broadcast by those devices.

If you are looking for a new phone DCET 6.0 is the way to go.

Office 365 The next Version of Office

The next version of Office is available for Preview and can be downloaded by anyone

The Microsoft Office 365 Preview can be found here

http://www.microsoft.com/office/cxm/en-gb/proplus/?WT.mc_id=eml_en-gb_RM-Preview_begin-pp_cta#welcome

I have been using it for just over a week and so far I am rather impressed with the features that are in it.

It takes some getting used to especially outlook as Outlook has received a face lift for the good.

The major differences is Contacts is now People in the Shortcuts within Outlook

Key features that are new will be in my next posting