Download Optus Quota from the Windows Live Gallery

Don’t slam HP too quick though, you may be reinstalling QuickPlay sooner that you think… the concept behind QuickPlay allows consumers to use their laptop in alternate “modes”, to play music CDs, DVD movies, and MP3s stored on the hard drive in a separate Linux partition without booting to the main operating system.

It’s a handy feature from HP and has been working merrily until Windows Vista was released and presented new compatibility issues, which unfortunately does not provide users with instant access to the software. Which brings us to why I’ve removed QuickPlay from Vista, if you have to be logged in to use QuickPlay you might as well run Windows Media Center which is optimised for Vista. Other reasons to ditch QuickPlay in Vista is it’s slow, takes up to 10 seconds to shutdown the session and eats a small village of system resources!

Remove HP QuickPlay from Vista by doing the following…

1. From the Start menu, click on Run
2. Type “msconfig” to open the Windows System Configuration
3. Swap to the Startup tab
4. Uncheck “HP QuickPlay” and “HP Quick launch buttons” from the list of applications that run at Windows Startup.
5. Press OK and restart your computer

I hope HP respond to this criticism and release a better product for HP Pavilion consumers.

I install and configure WP User Manager on all commercial Wordpress-powered sites requiring custom user profile fields, Dealsway Solution’s plugin really is in a league of its own, plus I’d like to give back to the Wordpress community!

A modified release of WP User Manager 0.4 is available for download that ammends the HTML and CSS styling of custom fields to conform with the Wordpress 2.5 Administration layout.

Download WP User Manager 0.4.1 Update

Or more eloquently, How Not To Be Gay.

1. A Man should not watch Oxygen, Womens Entertainment, or Lifetime.
2. A Man should not swing his arms when he is walking.
3. A Man should never carry a woman’s handbag.
4. A Man should never go tanning.
5. No Man should dye their hair.
6. A Man should never refer to an athlete as a “stud”.
7. A Man should not “pop” his collar.
8. A Man should not speak more than two languages.
9. A Man should never say “It’s to die for”.
10. A Man should not wear a scarf without a jacket or coat.
11. A Man should not wear an ascot.
12. A Man should never use the following terms: “fantabulous”, “ginormous” and “fierce”.
13. A Man should never wrap a towel around his head after leaving the shower.
14. A Man should never “sip” and alcoholic drink through a straw.
15. A Man should never wear a blouse.
16. If you are not living with a girl you should not have tampons in your bathroom.
17. A Man should not wear crocs.
18. A Man should not wear a leotard or do pirouettes.
19. A Man should never wear a sweater over his shoulders.
20. A Man should not eat grapes from the vines.
21. A Man should never rollerblade.
22. The word cute should not be used other then describing a chick they want to bone,
23. If you compliment a man on his six-pack, you better be referring to his beer.
24. A Man should never, ever wear capri pants.
25. A Man should not wear flip flops with a suit.
26. No Man should wear a speedo to the beach.
27. No Man should ever get a pedicure.
28. A Man should never highlight his hair.
29. A Man should not talk to another man in the bathroom.
30. A Man should never sing show tunes.
31. A Man should never eat out of another man’s hands.
32. Two Man should not share an umbrella.
33. A Man should not have “an outfit”, with the exception of a suit.
34. A Man should not wear a white belt.
35. A Man should never wiggle out of a pair of pants.
36. You must never own a cat.
37. Never dis a Man if his team just lost a crushing game.
38. As a Man you are allowed to enjoy exactly one chick TV show, and one chick flick. You may have no more. And if you like Grease, well, you’re already too late.
39. If you go the bar with your bros, you must buy a round of drinks at least once.
40. There are no mercy rules when playing someone in Madden, hoops, street hockey, bare-fisted boxing, etc.
41. NO P.D.A. (Public Displays of Affection). Hey, congratulations, another girl can stand the sight of you. You don’t need to wear her like a fucking trophy.
42. Don’t tell other bros elaborate stories about your weightlifting exercise routine. No one cares.
43. Never openly question another bros sports wisdom, unless said information specifically pertains to your favorite team. It doesn’t matter how ludicrous the other Bro sounds telling you that Jake Plummer was better than Steve McNair last season, let said Bro be.
44. Always allow a buffer zone at urinals and on couches.
45. Never share a bed with another bro, unless there’s no way around it.
46. If you owe a bro money, pay them back as soon as humanly possible—unless it’s a gambling debt, which must be paid immediately.

This SMS rejection flood bug affects the latest Australian firmware revision for the Sony Ericsson P1i, I would expect this to occur across other regional firmware releases too.

The only way to cease the incoming error report flood is to:

1. Open Messaging
2. Open Messages > Draft (scroll to the left of the Messages menu item 2 times)
3. Delete the message or assign it as a Draft

To change the password from it’s system default do the following:

1. Open the configuration file op_server.cfg within /var/www/html/panel.
2. Locate the line with “security_code=passw0rd”
3. Replace the value of security_code with your desired password
4. Press CTRL-X to exit and the Y key to save changes
5. Restart Trixbox

Look familiar? There is a bug in the current release of WP-Forum which exists in the plugin’s PHP function ul() hidden away in cookies.php of the plugin root directory. To fix this issue open cookies.php with your favourite text editor and replace…

function ul($user_id){
if(!isset($_COOKIE[’session’])){
update_usermeta( $user_id, ‘lastvisit’, time() );
return true;
}
return false;
}

with…

function ul($user_id){
if(isset($_COOKIE[’session’])){
update_usermeta( $user_id, ‘lastvisit’, time() );
return true;
}
return false;
}

Save your changes and refresh the page. All done.

Clients using Windows XP

1. On the Desktop, right click and select Properties
2. Swap to the Settings tab
3. Below the active screen diagram ask the client to state the name of the graphics card starting with the name of the manufacturer (eg. ATI, nVidia, etc.)

That’s it.

Clients using Windows Vista

1. On the Desktop, right click and select Personalize
2. Select Display Settings from the list under Personalize appearance and sounds
3. Below the active screen diagram ask the client to state the name of the graphics card starting with the name of the manufacturer (eg. ATI, nVidea, etc.)

That’s it.

Download your UIQ 3.1 theme

As your Sony Ericsson P1i is built on the UIQ 3.1mobile platform is makes use of standard *.utz files for themes. Themes for your phone can be easily be downloaded from a variety of free and sponsored sites. Just look at these examples.

Once you have downloaded a theme it needs to be transferred from your computer to the phone and opened. We’ll cover transferring files now.

Transferring theme files to your Sony Ericsson P1i

Files in general - be that images, document or theme files - can be transferred to your mobile in the following ways:

• using Sony Ericsson PC Suite for Smartphones and a wired USB connection to your computer
• via an Infrared connection to your notebook
• via a Bluetooth connection to your notebook
• over a Wireless LAN (801.11b) connection

Create a directory on your phone memory or optional memory card called “Themes” to hold your theme files, I recommend storage on your memory card as these files are infrequently accessed.

Using one of the above methods transfer your theme file into your new “Themes” file.

Open theme file on your Sony Ericsson P1i

The Sony Ericsson P1i stores themes within restricted memory, this is to ensure system data is safe. Using the theme manager on your phone you can add and remove themes with ease.

1. Open Main menu
2. Open Tools
3. Open File manager
4. Navigate to the “Themes” director you created earlier
5. Open your theme file
6. If your theme includes sounds you will be presented with the option to preview them
7. Press Apply

Your new theme has now been applied to your Sony Ericsson P1i.

I will need to revisit this article shortly as I want to add step-by-step instructions on how to transfer the theme file to your phone via each of the methods listed.