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Call and talk to customer service. They may be able to set up something for a fee. I have also seen software that you can download. Not to sure about the legality of the programs though.

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I don’t know about Sprint, you might be able to get your answer if you call Sprint’s customer service line 1-888-211-4727. However, since you’re under 18, you should be grateful your parents care enough about you to “keep” tabs on you. I know it sucks, but it does mean they worry about you. Perhaps if you were to directly ask them maybe both sides could come to some kind of agreement, say you get your own phone, but you pay the fees for your using it to your parents. That way, since you’d be paying your share, they might be less tempted to check up on you.

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Sure. I don’t know what service you have but for example if you wanted to send a picture by e-mail on verizon you would put this in the address bar

yourphonenumber@vzpix.com (include your area code but not the preceding “1″ in your phone number, like you put if you’re making a long distance call.

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Yes, there are services that will send a copy of everything sent & received to the planholders E-mail…

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You will need to call your provider to get an exact number. If you have been with them for any length of time they will knock some money off, but not near the amount of the last 2 months of your contract.

The easiest way of transferring your data would be to use the Device switch feature of Desktop Manager. Not only will it move you SMS and email it will move your settings and applications too.

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You simply enter her number as +380 xxx xxx xxx.

There is nothing special about sending an international text message on a T-Mo prepaid card, and nothing extra you must do to make them work (like calling T-mo).

The cost is the same for Ukraine as an sms within the US – 10 cents sending, and 5 cents recieving (despite what T-Mo might tell you).

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I once had a Sony Ericsson K750i and there was this option:
Send me an sms if the receiver received the message.
I don’t know if you would have this on your phone but you might try and search for it. Like maybe in sms settings, or just the regular settings.

It didn’t matter for me which provider i had.

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You can use regular email to send to cell phones at the following companies. This is not meant to be a complete list.

AT&T ———— phone number@txt.att.net
AT&T ———— phone number@mms.att.net (pictures? Not verified)
Cingular ——– phone number@cingularme.com
Cricket ———- phonenumber@sms.mycricket.com
MetroPCS —– phone number@mymetropcs.com
Nextel ———– phone number@messaging.nextel.com
Sprint ———– phone number@messaging.sprintpcs.com
T-Mobile ——- phone number@tmomail.net
US Cellular —- phone number@email.uscc.net
Verizon ——— phone number@vtext.com (text)
Verizon ——— phone number@vzwpix.com (pictures)
Virgin Mobile – phone number@vmobl.com

JTSYS

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It’s most likely a third party application that may potentially have a cost associated with it. If so, the charge would show up on your monthly bill. Have you ever seen the commercials for a service called Jamster with the dancing teddy bear? On the screen is a short code, such as the one you listed above. If you send a text message to the short code, you get a “free” ringtone and in the small print at the bottom of the screen you will see that a $9.99 charge is associated with this service. It is possible he may have signed up for a similar service not knowing that a charge would occur. Someone else may have typed his number in by mistake, hence why he is receiving text messages from this third party.

Send the word ‘stop’ to 46331 and he won’t receive another text from them. It is likely your wireless carrier can credit you for the charges, if any apply.

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Moby Dick is no longer under copyright, so you can transfer it where ever and however you want.

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No website will trace it for free, and that isn’t something you want to do. You should always contact your wireless carrier first. Some carriers, like Verizon, offer ways to block incoming text messages. It is this new service called E Block. It means emergency block. You can block text messages from coming in…but not calls. Other wireless carriers are adopting this service…so contact them.

If they make you fear for your life, are threatening, or it is otherwise objectionable…contact your local police department and file a report.

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Yes go to msn.com and go to white pages and do a reverse look up and it will tell you the provider and what city.

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Well, lets say this other person has an iPhone too. It’ll show your text as delivered because you both are texting through iMessenger.
But if you’re texting someone who doesn’t have an iPhone, then it won’t show. If the text box is blue it will, if it’s green it won’t.

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Blackberry 8820

http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/blackberry8800/8800_features.jsp

^^ no camera tho ^^

if you really want a camera then go with the blackberry 8310

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I am making the assumption that you are on BT (the main UK phone company) as this is in UK and Ireland questions! If you are on Virgin, you’ll need to call them. BT have a special freephone number for controlling their SMS to call service which is 0800 587 5252. You can either allow messages at any time, between 9am-9pm, 8am-11pm, 12am-6am or block them altogether. Hope this helps you out.

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Am I missing something. I thought the service “Flipmail”/”Flipout” was no longer?

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If you’re seeing this message on the status bar at the bottom of the Word window: “This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked”, you have a free trial copy of Microsoft Office that was good for 25 uses (of all Office programs combined) or 60 days. At the end of that time it stops letting you edit your files or create new ones. You have to purchase Microsoft Office 2010, or at least Word 2010, to do that.

Note: The 25-character product key on the computer case or laptop bottom is NOT the key for MS Office. It’s only for the Windows operating system.

Here are some of your options for legally paying less than full price for Microsoft Office 2010:

First, if you’re a student, you may qualify for the Office 2010 Professional Academic edition at a pretty good price ($79.95):

http://www.microsoft.com/student/

Second, if you’re interested in buying just Word, check out this URL, especially the second group of listings.

Http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/office-2010-pricing-information-HA101810737.aspx

Also, if you have files that are locked up in the new Word 2010 file format (.docx), here’s a possibility for salvaging them. Microsoft offers a free Compatibility pack that allows earlier versions of Word (and Microsoft Works) to read and write Word 2010 files. If you have access to an earlier version, this can at least give you back your documents. Some new features of Word 2010 will be lost or converted to straight text in the conversion to the earlier version.

Good luck.

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Different versions of messenger in use!

Messenger “9″ 1st version was in Beta (testing) form. The newest version is not, But it’s not working well either. Stick to 8.1 until they work out the Bugs. Including people using 8.1 trying to message ones with 9 or reverse they are having compatibility problems; like text not showing,pictures not showing. It shuts down on Vista users , not allowing people to log in.Web cams do not always work. Many things do not work or are missing that YM 8.1 has. It Seems for Vista users it is so buggy Yahoo is giving up on it and are no longer trying to fix it. Http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/…
Download 8.1 here http://www.filehippo.com/download_yahoo_…
Use this method: Start,My PC, C drive, open Program files.Next open Yahoo file then Messenger file.Click on UNWISE to Un install messenger 9 completely. Do not just delete yahoo file as this can cause problems with other Yahoo programs.
Your contacts list and messages are stored online and will be there when you return to 8.1 messenger.
Another big problem is with the latest update for Flash Player
Flash player 10 Does have conflicts,and 9′s latest update 9.0.124.0 Can have conflicts with Yahoo(very rarely, if you are using it with no problems keep it) and is causing some Yahoo Messenger services to not load.Use the link below for a download of Flash player #9.0.115.0 It should work as it’s the latest before 9.0.124.0 . You have to remove the present flash player,add/remove programs in control panel, then download the older version.

Http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer…

Some people are losing signal,things fade out, freezing up or getting disconnected . This can be caused my running low on virtual memory! You can increase your memory by going to start button, settings, control panel, system, advance tab, performance, advance tab, virtual memory, change it, make it 1500 kb or higher, In both boxes, click apply then ok .
More help can be found here; http://www.freecreed.com/userid.html…

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There are quite a few see below:

Opera
Free by Opera Software – Mac Windows Linux
Opera is an innovative browser with the features, speed and security that will give you the best browsing experience available. Opera has a built-in e-mail and bittorrent client. It also has unique features such as

Thunderbird
Open Source by Mozilla – Mac Windows Linux
Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox. Advantages compared with the most popular web e-mail application:(a) Excellent Mail-

Google Calendar
Free by Google – Online
With Google Calendar, its easy to keep track of all your lifes important events in one place. You can add events and send invitations effortlessly, share your schedule with friends and family, and search for events you m …

Evolution
Open Source by The GNOME Project – Mac Windows Linux
Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions.

Rainlendar
Free with limited functionality by Rainlendar – Mac Windows Linux
Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesnt take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it on all major operating systems.

Lightning
Open Source by Mozilla Foundation – Mac Windows Linux
Lightning brings the Sunbird calendar to the popular email client, Mozilla Thunderbird and the SeaMonkey internet application suite. Since its an extension, Lightning is tightly integrated with Thunderbird or SeaMonkey.

EM client
Free with limited functionality by eM Client Inc. – Windows
eM Client is a Windows based FREE replacement for MS Outlook with e-mails, multiple calendars, contacts and tasks. It allows full synchronization with Gmail or any other server, including IM chat and

Postbox
Commercial by postbox-inc.com – Mac Windows
Based on Thunderbird.”A new way to work with emailPostbox offers powerful new ways to find, use, and view email messages and content, organize your work life, and get stuff done.For Windows and Macintosh”" …

Sunbird
Open Source by Mozilla Foundation – Mac Windows Linux
Mozilla Sunbird is a cross-platform calendar application developed by the Mozilla Foundation, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers.

Windows Live Mail
Free by Microsoft – Windows
Get multiple e-mail accounts in one program – Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!* and more. And now Windows Live Mail has a calendar, too. Mail combines the ease of use of Outlook Express, with the speed of Windows Live.

Opera Mail
Free by Opera Software – Mac Windows Linux
Opera offers an email client built right into your favorite browser. Opera Mail powerfully organizes, indexes, and sorts your messages while transforming your Opera web browser into a complete communication tool.

Zimbra Desktop
Free by Zimbra – Mac Windows Linux
The free Zimbra Desktop client allows you to meld the online and offline worlds – storing and synching your email, calendar, contacts, files and documents in the cloud, yet having them locally accessible when on the road.

Claws Mail
Open Source – Mac Windows Linux
Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+, featuring Quick response Graceful, and sophisticated interface Easy configuration, intuitive operation Abundant features.

The Bat
Commercial by RITLabs – Windows
High-level system of e-communication messages processing with intuitive interface and strong privacy protection.

Banckle Email Server
Free by Usman Sarfraz – Mac, iPad Windows Online
Banckle Email Server is a FREE and reliable business email solution supporting multiple protocols, video email, text and video chat. Considering your business needs, the email communications are SSL secured

Sylpheed
Open Source by Hiroyuki Yamamoto – Mac Windows Linux
Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client (mailer, MUA).Sylpheed runs on Unix-like systems such as Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. It also supports Windows.Sylpheed uses GTK+ GUI toolkit.

EssentialPIM
Free by EssentialPIM – Windows
PIM stands for Personal Information Manager, and it allows you to keep all you information in electronic form. All your appointments, tasks, to do lists, notes and contacts are stored in a graphical and easily accessible..

Try the link below which will give you for llinks to the websites / apps.

Http://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-office-outlook/

I hope this helps.

Rogue ;o)

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1. Right-click My Computer and choose Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab on your System Properties dialog box.
3. Click the Error Reporting button on the Advanced tab.
4. Place a checkmark next to “Disable error reporting.”
5. Leave the other radio button unchecked next to the text labeled, “But notify me when critical errors occur.”
6. Click OK.

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Call and send sms to any Phone anywhere Free! – Download globe7 software to do this- http://surl.in/HLGB7261252BMRMTGQ

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Negative sir. T9 is part of the bloat-ware crap pack of software that gets flashed onto the phone before it leaves the factory thus rendering it permanent.

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No….

It is real IM using the data plan

http://www.ubiquitous-software.com/

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Text messaging is the most popular form of communication in China. Six hundred million Chinese have cell phones — that’s twice the population of the United States and three times the number of Chinese with Internet access.

Text messages are cheaper than a phone call by about half. No one in China has voice mail, so it’s the surest way to get a message to someone.

Although the Chinese language has thousands of individual characters, most phones have software that uses English letters to represent the sounds of particular characters.

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I think the man is simply toying with your emotions. He shows all the signs of liking you to draw you in and then pretty much ignores you after. He was just looking for something to entertain himself for the moment.

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Not at all – he was just mooching off you! I definitely think he was using you. He probably didn’t really care much about you in the first place – to break up with you over a text and call you vulgar names. He’s indecisive and doesn’t know what he wants.

You should find someone else whose worth your time and who will treat you with the respect you deserve.

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Instructions

1

Determine how and where you will get your start up money. For any new business that is starting from the ground up, seed money is needed. Figure out the best way to get money to invest in your teen dance club, be it from monetary gifts from family members or through a business loan. If you opt to apply for a business loan, you will need to draft a sound business plan explaining what the goals of your club are and how you plan to run it and succeed in this particular business. When you are doing so, keep in mind that you will constantly have to come up with innovative ways to capture the attention of your teenage clientele; kids are fickle, and what’s hot, fresh and exciting today is usually stale within two weeks.
2

Scout out locations throughout your community. The more accessible your teenage dance club is, the more likely it is to succeed. If possible, choose a location that kids can access on their own, without having to ask a parent or family member to drive them there. Not only is this safer because teenagers are certainly not known for their expert driving skills, but with neighborhoods — think family members — nearby, you are more likely to see appropriate behavior from your customers.

3

Get the right types of insurance. Every business needs insurance and the types of insurance for this type of club would likely include general liability, property insurance, accidental injury and of course, for the employees, workers’ compensation for your employees. Liability is the more expensive of the group. Check the Resources section below for more information about club insurers. To be sure you know exactly what kind of insurance your teen club needs, send an inquiry to the relevant department in your state government (this may be Business, Commerce, or Insurance) and find out what kind of insurance you will need for your club to cater to a teenager clientele.
4

Determine what type of atmosphere your club will have. Do you want your dance club to be low-key and more of a spot for teenagers in your community to hang out? Or do you want to replicate the high-energy clubs frequented by college students? You must first determine your direction before you can proceed so you know the proper way to market yourself.
5

Take your time and carefully hire knowledgeable staff. Working with teenagers takes a special kind of patience. After all, they are going through some many new experiences, both physically and emotionally, so they can be moody, combative, overexcited, loud, obnoxious and rude. You need to hire staff members that don’t mind working with people like this and can resolve problems without losing their temper. People who have worked in schools or community centers will not only know how to deal with problems, but may also have ideas on how to promote positive, healthy activity through camaraderie and re-direction versus confrontation and violence. It is also important to hire a DJ that is knowledge about about today’s music; the first thing that will run your club right into the ground is a mix of music that is nowhere near what teenagers today are listening to.
6

Put together a promotional team of teenagers to help spread the word. Keep in mind that traditional forms of advertising likely won’t work here. You will need to reach the kids in the same ways that they communicate these days, meaning cell phone text messages (this is where your promotional team comes in handy, as they can capture the contact information of the members of their individual peer group) and social media outlets. The most popular — and the ones that will help you be successful — are MySpace and Facebook. Put together pages on both of these sites and begin to collect “friends.” This will give you an easy way to spread the word about your new club and generate excitement!

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I’d say if your 13 y/o relies on phones a lot and talks to all his/her friends constantly you need 1000 minutes. Considering the fact that if they are on the IN network it’s 0 minutes as they are verizon users. Texting GET A PLAN. You should definitely get either a 500/1500 messaging plan. Texts are used up faster then you think considering both INCOMING/OUTGOING messages count for one. I don’t recommend verizon as they are overpriced and besides their v-cast they are more business oriented rather residential use.

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There are several different issues here – some true, some false.

First of all, viruses cannot spread via *text* messages (i.e., SMS) – so, if this is indeed what you have heard, it’s fiction.

However, viruses *can* spread via multimedia (MMS) messages. In fact, several such viruses already exist – the CommWarrior family being the most widespread one but there are also others (e.g., Mabir).

As a consequence of the above, you *do* need anti-virus protection for some cell phones.

It is important to note, however, that not all cell phones are vulnerable to viruses. Basically, only the phones using the Symbian S60 v8.x operating system are seriously threatened. (Although proof-of-concept viruses also exist for phones running the PalmOS, Windows Mobile and Symbian UIQ operating systems, they have no chances of surviving in the wild.)

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You can visit this site it has lots of great information on free sms
http://voipsms.blogspot.com

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Sms backup can backup texts and save them to a file and all you need to do is connect your phone to your computer and youre set.

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Http://www.google.com/mobile/sms/voice/

try that and let me know

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Once you are in the Signature area as directed below the last comment will explain how to rid your emails of the signature.

Go to “Options” on the right side of your email page
Click on “Mail Options”
Click on “Signature”
Enter the signature you want to appear
Click on “Add Signature to all outgoing messages ”
Click on “Save”
How to insert pic in signature

http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtips/…

http://email.about.com/cs/yahoomailtips/…

How to have an animated signature

http://www.mailsigs.com/yahoo-email-sign…

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More info..

Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page. Go to “Management”, click “signature”. Above the text area, next to the word “Editor”, click either “plain” or “color and graphics”. With the toolbar that appears when you select color and graphics, you can choose which font you’d like to use and how you’d like to format and color it. Now compose your signature by typing in the text area. Click “add signature to all outgoing messages” and it’ll do just that. Don’t forget to save your new settings!

Http://creatorscorner.cottondew.net/Sign… loads of different fonts, many nice backgrounds. This free online tool works with php scripts, created pics are downloadable .gif files

Setup and edit Small Business Signature:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbu…

If you don’t want a signature once in to SIGNATURES just place a dot in the “do not use a signature” and go above and click on SAVE CHANGES

NOTE: please remember to pick a best answer by clicking on the THUMBS UP at the end of the answer you choose….thanx

….Have a great day………………

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No, it’s not a licenced agency in the Philippines.

Http://www.poea.gov.ph/

This means it is a fake job scam.

Things to look for to confirm that it is a scam are:

1. Telephone numbers beginning +4470. These are designed to make it look as though you are calling the UK, in fact these numbers can be redirected anywhere in the world and are usually premium rate. No reputable UK business would use them.

2. Free email accounts such as yahoo, live.com etc. No reputable UK business ever uses free email accounts.

3. Any request for payment by Western Union. This method of payment is NEVER used by UK businesses. They all have bank accounts so do not need to receive payments this way. It is untraceable and irretrievable.

4. Any suggestion that you contact an agency, lawyer, UKBA or any other organisation or individual in the UK to process work documentation. The only document that needs processing is your visa and this is never done in the UK, but always in your own country. You would need to have been issued with a certificate of sponsorship by your employer which you submit with your documents to the British Embassy in Manila. There you would be fingerprinted and photographed. You pay £270 direct to VFS Global who manage the visa process on behalf of UKBA in Manila and you are issued with your visa. There are no other documents that you have to apply for and no other costs.

5. Offers of a job without interviewing. UK employers must be licenced to employ non EEA nationals and have to go through a lengthy and detailed recruitment process to employ them rather than UK/EEA nationals. They would not be able to employ someone legally whom they had not interviewed in person.

6. Work visas are impossible to get if you do not have at least a degree level education or for anything less than a highly skilled post. UK employers would not advertise such posts abroad as there is no chance of candidates being granted permission to work in the UK to fill low, semi or non skilled posts, or if they don’t have a degree level education and many years work experience in that field.

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The previous answers are good and simple. Are you overly “brave” or curious? Your call. Here is a more technical approach (& complicated too) that is the way to settle the issue! Are you ready? The information developed is your “new” starting point.

1.) Search of Google.com for “Area Code (314)” AND “prefix 761″
2.) Results give link to: www.area-codes.com/exchange/exchange.asp?npa=314&nxx=761

AreaCode/Prefix 314-761 Details
NPA/Area Code:314
NXX Use Type:WIRELESS
NXX/Prefix: 761
City: SAINT LOUIS
County: SAINT LOUIS
State: MO
ZIP Code: 63141
Latitude: 38.7 Longitude: -90.44
Rate Center: LADUE
Time Zone: Central (GMT -06:00)
Carrier/Company: SPRINT SPECTRUM L.P.

3.) Search of Google for: “SPRINT SPECTRUM L.P.” AND “SAINT LOUIS” AND “63141″
4.) Results give link to information provider: www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_hlwkgs

Sprint Spectrum L P (Sprint)
12503 Olive Blvd, Saint Louis, MO 63141-6311
Contact Phone: (314) 434-4373
URL (web address): www.sprintpcs.com
Business Category:Radiotelephone Communication in Saint Louis, MO

5.) Go To: www.sprintpcs.com
6.) Clicking “Support” drops a menu
7.) Clicking “View All Support” links to “Support Overview”: support.sprint.com/index.html?id12=UHP_SupportTab_Link_ViewAllSupport
8.) Searching for “Report abuse or harassment by your customer” links to choices …
9.) Information from displayed choices: (first item below)

“Consumer Alert: Protect Yourself From Wireless Spam”
“Navigation: Sprint encourages customers to report spam by forwarding spam text messages directly to abuse@messaging.sprintpcs.com or by calling Customer Care at *2 on their Sprint phones and 611 on their Nextel phones.)”

Or (if possible) just “Block” that number appearing in the Caller ID.

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I have only used the Spanish language and input option for a short time. I use English and Simplified Chinese language and input options often. The Mac OS X default installation gives anyone the option to choose Spanish language for the OS, the applications that installed with the OS (such as iTunes, DVD Player, TextEdit, etc.), and for most third-party applications as well as Spanish input. For example, Microsoft Office has multi-lingual capability. Once you change the system language and input, your Office applications will show menus, dialog boxes and error messages in that language. This is much better than Windows Vista where you have no option to change the language unless you buy the Business or Ultimate Edition.

A Spanish physical keyboard is helpful but not essential. Typically, you would only have a Spanish keyboard if you bought the computer in a country that has Spanish as the first language. I have a French Canadian keyboard but it types fine in English or Chinese so long as I remember what will happen with those few keys that are different. A Mac sold in China will have an English keyboard as there is no such thing as a Chinese keyboard. The key selection in Chinese is based on Pinyin rather than characters and then the system will display a series of character choices on screen that correspond to the Pinyin sound. Complicated but it works.

Some keyboards will give you the need to memorize certain key-combinations that could change because of the new arrangement of keys. For example, with a French keyboard, the Q and A keys are switched so if you want to select all, you press command Q and if you want to quit an application, you press command A. You can see a picture of an Apple USB keyboard from a few years ago at the link below. I hope the link works since I had to reconstruct it as it doesn’t load directly here in China behind the Great Firewall.

Here is the skinny from the Mac OS Help Guide:

About using other languages on your computer
You can change the language shown in menus and dialogs; see dates, times, and numbers displayed according to the conventions of a geographic region; and even write in a language that uses a different writing system (or “script”) from yours without having the keyboard that’s designed for that language. You set these options using International preferences (choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click International). Choose “Spanish” for the Americas and “Spanish ISO” for the Spanish of Spain,

If you set up your computer to write in more than one language or to type special characters (for example, mathematical symbols or arrows), the Input menu appears as a flag on the right side of the menu bar. When you want to type in another language or type special characters or symbols, you choose an item from the Input menu.

You can also view multilingual text documents on your computer. Applications that support Unicode, a worldwide standard for encoding multilingual text, can display any language. Other applications may not support all languages and you may see missing or strange characters in the text. If you have trouble viewing multilingual text, open the document using a Unicode application, such as TextEdit.

The applications that came with your computer let you write in any language that Mac OS X supports. However, not all applications let you change the language shown in menus and dialogs. To see what languages an application supports, select the application icon, then choose File > Get Info, and click the Languages triangle.

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If you know people who have BlackBerries who you text a lot and like qwerty keyboards, then a BlackBerry would be ideal – they obviously do have the qwerty keyboards and you can send messages to those people for free through BBM (BlackBerry Messenger).

However, if you want a phone with easy access to loads of apps and games, then a BlackBerry may not be for you, as BlackBerry App World is pretty limited and although it does have some decent stuff, not all apps are supported by all devices (so you may be able to have it on a Bold 9700 but not a Curve 8520, as an example).

If you do go for a BlackBerry, I’d definitely go for the latest one – the Bold 9900/9930 (depending on where you live). Not only does it have the latest software, but it comes with a good touchscreen, bigger keyboard and a 5MP Camera (an improvement for BlackBerry, whereas most other handsets have 2mp or 3.2mp cameras). It is also the thinnest BlackBerry out there, and with 8GB of built in expandable storage, you’ve got plenty of space to play with. One downside though is that the Amazon Music Store App doesn’t appear to work on them, as mine dissapeared mysteriously after just hours of switching the phone on, and was not supported by my “system administrator” (though I don’t know what exactly this meant, it basically didn’t work as that was the error message I recieved). It is also pretty quick and great on the internet, with its 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor. There is also NFC in there too. On any BlackBerry, Facebook is always at hand with a good built in Facebook app, which is also great for uploading pictures. YouTube and Twitter are also in there among others, along with a forms of Word, PowerPoint and Excell. 720p HD video recording is also squeezed in there.

At the end of the day, it all depends on your preferences of what you want out of your phone. I personally surprised myself – I’ve always been one for games, but even though this is limited on my Bold 9900, I am still really enjoying the phone so far. If you’re looking for Apps, I personally find that Apples App Store beats them all (having an iPod touch, and had experience with the Android store, Apple store and BlackBerry Store), and along with the handy gift vouchers (as I am sure you will know about), so an iPhone is probably best for you (especially with the iPhone 5 coming out soon, and the iPhone 4 becoming cheaper).

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You and friend may be using different versions of messenger.

Messenger “9″ 1st version was in Beta (testing) form. The newest version is not, But it’s not working well either. Stick to 8.1 until they work out the Bugs. Including people using 8.1 trying to message ones with 9 or reverse they are having compatibility problems; like text not showing,pictures not showing.Chat rooms not found or opening. It shuts down on Vista users , not allowing people to log in.Web cams do not always work. Many things do not work or are missing that YM 8.1 has. It Seems for Vista users it is so buggy Yahoo is giving up on it and are no longer trying to fix it. Http://www.ymessengerblog.com/blog/2008/…
You need to remove version 9 completely 1st to Get version 8 to work.
Use this method: Start,My PC, C drive, open Program files.Next open Yahoo file then Messenger file.Click on UNWISE to Un install messenger 9 completely. Do not just delete yahoo file as this can cause problems with other Yahoo programs.
Download the newest 8.1 here http://download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/us/ym…
Your contacts list and messages are stored online and will be there when you return to 8.1 messenger.

Another big problem is with the latest update for Flash Player
Flash player 10 Does have conflicts and is causing things to not load or just crash upon opening..Use the link below for a download of Flash player # 9.0.124.0 . You have to remove the present flash player,add/remove programs in control panel,Reboot then download from here.

Http://www.download.com/Adobe-Flash-Player/3000-2200_4-10778951.html

Some people are losing signal,things fade out, freezing up or getting disconnected . This can be caused my running low on virtual memory! You can increase your memory by going to start button, settings, control panel, system, advance tab, performance, advance tab, virtual memory, change it, make it 1500 kb or higher, In both boxes, click apply then ok . This applys for all instant messengers,MSN, Yahoo,skype ect.
More help can be found here; http://www.freecreed.com/userid.html.

admin answers:

Most laptop come with their own camera software to record and take snapshots.

But this one here is free and basic

paid ones are better and have more features.

Www.yawcam.com

Fwink Free Webcam Software – Fwink Free Webcam Software – Fwink is a free and open source webcam application for Windows. It takes images from your camera at timed intervals and puts them on your web site with FTP. You can add effects like text messages, time stamps and an overlay image. You can superimpose a logo, or any image you want, on top of your webcam image. The following image formats are supported: JPEG, GIF (transparency is supported), PNG (transparency and alpha are supported), BMP, TIFF and WMF. You can now trigger your camera with the ATI Remote Wonder. Instructions for configuring this plug-in are provided with Fwink.

Http://www.lundie.ca/fwink/

Dorgem Webcam Capture Software – Dorgem Webcam Capture Software – Dorgem is an open source (free) webcam capture application for almost all versions of Windows (Not tested on Windows NT). Dorgem works with any Video for Windows compatible webcam or digital camera. Dorgem has unlimited storage events that can put the captured image on an FTP site as well as a local disk, all with their own time interval. Dorgem can put a unlimited number of texts and bitmaps on the captured image before the image is stored locally or on the server. Dorgem also supports an unlimited number of simultaneous cameras. Dorgem has a built-in webserver for still images and can be used as security camera because of its motion detection. Dorgem Webcam Capture Software is an open source software project at Sourceforge. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE.

Http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/

YAWCAM Yet Another Webcam Software – YAWCAM Yet Another Webcam Software – Yawcam is a short for Yet Another WebCAM software, and that’s exactly what it is More precisely Yawcam is a webcam software for windows written in java. The main idea for Yawcam is to keep it simple and easy to use but to include all the usual features. Yawcam features: Video streaming, Image snapshots, Built-in webserver, Motion detection, Ftp-upload, Text and image overlays, Password protection, Online announcements for communities, Scheduler for online time, Multi languages. Yawcam is completely free to use.

Http://www.yawcam.com/

My ScreenCam Free Software – My ScreenCam Free Software – My ScreenCam turns your capture device, webcam or web camera in to a television / vcr combination. You can watch your camera full screen (or any other size), alter the preview speed and many more features. You can even record your camera as an .avi file for playback later. Taking a snapshot is a breeze too saving your image as a .bmp file (Progressively renames .bmp file if there is more than one snapshot). You can select different save locations and choose from different capture devices. The best thing about My ScreenCam is that it’s completely free. My ScreenCam works with Windows 95, 98, NT4, ME, 2000, XP home and XP pro. System requirements for My Screen Cam are Pentium (or equiv) 120, Video capture device (incl web camera’s), DirectX 8.1 or higher.

Http://www.uk-software.com/MyScreenCam/

Manycam WebCam Special Effects – Manycam WebCam Special Effects – Manycam allows you to use your webcam with multiple applications at the same time and add graphics to your webcam video window. Manycam Features: Use your webcam with multiple programs simultaneously. Manycam can add text to your webcam video window with any application. Manycam can add cool animations to your video window. Manycam can show your local day and date in your video window. Manycam can add live CGI graphics like fire and water effects. Manycam can even make it appear as if it is snowing inside your house

http://www.manycam.com/

V-CamShow free webcam slide show – V-CamShow free webcam slide show – V-CamShow is a free webcam slide show and screen saver. It enables you to watch your favourite webcams as a slide show or a screen saver. There is no limit to the number of webcams you can view. New webcams are added regularly which can be imported into your list. You can also add your own webcam to the list and increase your viewers. V-CamShow employs an intelligent algorithm to auto-detect and auto-adjust the refresh rate – this will work for most, though not all, cams. This prevents you from downloading the same image over and over again. It can also detect slow or inactive cams and, depending on your choice, can either reduce their refresh rate or disable them completely, all done automatically. You can also set operation times for each cam individually so you can have different cams enabled at different times of the day – very useful if you are watching cams from different parts of the world. Platforms: Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP.
Http://virdi-software.com/vcamshow/

admin answers:

Several criteria determine the amount of traffic your website gets but by far the most important are to have a good search engine ranking and good links to your site.

Search engines use a complicated and secret algorithm to determine which sites are placed where in the rankings but there are several tricks you can employ to boost you ranking.

There’s lots of articles on the net to do with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but I ignore all of them and do things my way. This seems to work as every site I’ve created ranks within the top 6 on Google even when there’s millions of results found. A site I created less than a week ago is already ranked number 1 by Yahoo and Google.

These are some of my tips…

– GIVE YOUR PAGE A GOOD TITLE TAG –
One of the first things a search engine looks at is the title tag of the page. When writing the tag use the same words people are likely to key in when using a search engine. For example, if your page is about space travel then a title such as “Space Travel – Be a Shuttle Rocket Tourist and Journey to the Moon” is much better than “All about flying to the moon and back”. Why? Because the first tag includes words people are likely to use in a search engine such as space, travel, shuttle, rocket, tourist, journey and moon.

– GIVE YOUR PAGE A RELEVANT NAME –
Search engines look at page names. If your domain was mydomain.com then a page name such as mydomain.com/space-travel will do much better than mydomain.com/section1/part2/page3.

– USE THE DESCRIPTION TAG –
Some search engines including Google support this tag – others don’t.

Compare a Yahoo search for ‘Black Eyed Peas’ to a Google Search. Both of them find blackeyedpeas.com but Yahoo describe it as “… Multi-platinum 2-time Grammy-winners The Black Eyed Peas cross an historic threshold as their hit … The Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and others …”. Google uses the description tag and describes it as “Official site includes videos, message boards, tour dates, and photo gallery. Additional content is available to members.”

– USE THE ALT TAG –
Some search engines ignore the alt tag, others include it when spidering your site. Not only that but some visually impaired users and power-surfers who turn off images rely on alt tags.

– FLASH ANIMATION / SCRIPTING / DHTML –
Spiders are unable to follow these linking systems. If all your pages are linked using Flash, DHTML or scripts then the spider won’t follow the links and your pages won’t get indexed. If you’re designing your site this way the least you can do it to include conventional text links to the main pages of your site and ideally to a Site Map that contains text links to every page.

– SPLASH PAGES –
These are the animated front pages to a site, usually nothing there other than an animation and a ‘Skip Intro’ link. Spiders don’t like Splash and as this is the doorway to your site think carefully before creating one.

– DOORWAY PAGES –
These are pages that exist on a site but are not accessible to the visitor, if someone tries to access the page they are redirected elsewhere. Historically webmasters created such pages and stuffed them full of popular keywords and phrases.

Spiders have wised up to Doorways and there’s nothing better for getting yourself pushed right down in the rankings or kicked out altogether than use of Doorway Pages.

– HIDDEN TEXT –
Some web pages hide text by printing white text on a white background for example. Often such text has nothing at all to do with the site but is just a list of popular words and phrases used to draw people to the site. Spiders can spot tricks like these and will penalise sites that employ such tactics.

– PUT A HEADING ON YOUR PAGE –
The heading should closely match the page title. You need to format the heading as a Heading Style and not simply use bold and underlined text.

– REPEAT KEYWORDS AND PHRASES –
Include in the text of your page several instances of keywords and phrases people may use in a search engine. Using the space travel example your page should include words such as space, travel, fly, moon, space-tourist and so on. Repeat them frequently but don’t overdo it.

– USE OF THE KEYWORD TAG –
This is something that’s falling out of favour with search engines. Originally this was a useful tag for ensuring your page contained variants of words, particularly those that are often mis-spelled (e.g. Britney, Britany, Brittany, Spears, Spiers etc). I haven’t used this tag for some time and I’ve heard people say it can be detrimental to search engine rankings.

– AVOID 404 (PAGE NOT FOUND) ERRORS –
Spiders hate these and after finding one or two on your site will leave it. Don’t rely on an E404 page to take visitors to a designated page when the target page is missing.

– ADD YOUR SITE TO DIRECTORIES –
You can add your site to appropriate categories in online directories. There’s hundreds of them altogether but the 4 main ones are…

Http://dir.yahoo.com/

http://www.wikidweb.com/

http://www.dmoz.org/

http://directory.google.com/

There’s an extensive list here… Http://www.seocompany.ca/directory/free-web-directories.html

– SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION –
Google dominates the search engine market, Yahoo and MSN are the other two key players. A lot of the others use Google.

If you can get your site indexed by these three then you’ve pretty much covered all your bases. Rather than waiting for the spiders to find you it may help to add your site to the submission lists.

Http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSDD2

– ESTABLISH GOOD LINKS –
This is the most important factor of all. You need lots of relevant and ‘respected’ pages linking back to yours as each link scores bonus points in the rankings algorithm. The best links are those from trusted sites that are themselves established. For example, if the space travel site has links from NASA, the European Space Agency, ABC News and the like it will give it a serious boost in the rankings. One link from NASA would be worth more than a whole bunch of links from less relevant sites.

It’s worth taking the time and effort to get links from as many sites as possible. Visit relevant sites and e-mail the webmaster with details of your site.

Because links are vitally important your site has to be make people want to link to it. I make it a policy to never link to sites that have pop-ups and I’m sure many other people do too.

– HAVE A GOOD SITE –
When creating your site think how it’s going to appear to visitors. Bear in mind different people use different browsers and have different connection speeds. A large page might look fantastic to someone with a fast connection will be a real pain to someone with a slow connection. If you need to put advertising on your site then make it relevant and discreet – one thing guaranteed to get someone off your site is to have pop-ups and ‘in yer face’ advertising, can you think of any successful site that employs these tactics?

If your site is an informative one then make it so visitors can get the information they want quickly – don’t go for Flash intros and complicated menus and use only common fonts, if the font isn’t on a visitors computer their browser will use the default font instead.

Navigation must be easy with every page having a link back to the homepage and don’t use frames, they’re seriously outdated, users don’t like them and spiders ignore them.

Avoid cluttering your site, spread it out or onto more pages. Keep the text brief, unless it’s something the visitor wants to read they’ll soon get bored and go off to another site.

– REMEMBER WHY PEOPLE USE THE INTERNET –
Ignoring porn and all that stuff, the primary use of the internet is for information so make your pages informative. The space travel website could include information about the universe, each of the planets in the solar system, a history of space flight and so on. This will generate a lot more traffic which in turn is likely to lead to more links and ultimately a higher ranking.

– IGNORE SEO COMPANIES –
You probably receive e-mails from companies offering to get you higher rankings in the search engines. Their number one concern isn’t your site but their balance sheet, treat them the same as you would with an e-mail for Viagra and hit delete. They do work to an extent but not by doing anything you can’t do for free. Google get e-mails from companies offering to help rank their own site, see what else Google have to say about these companies… Http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html

– CONSIDER ADWORDS –
You pay for these, how much you pay is up to you. If someone enters a search phrase that matches your adwords then your ad is displayed on the results page. If more than one ad matches then they’re displayed in the order of who pays most for their adwords.

– SPREAD THE WORD –
Just tell people about your site and add posts in relevant forums, blogs etc.

– BE PATIENT –
In general the longer a site is around the better it does in the search engine rankings, largely because as time passes more and more sites will link to it. If your site relates to a popular subject you may find it ranks low down to start with then climbs steadily in the rankings, it could take years before you have a good ranking.

– THE END –
Hope this gives you something to go on and you get the traffic you want.