MS Teams always log me out on my Android device

This appears to be a recurring problem, based on my search results on Google. But nothing in the search results led to any solution to the problem.

I have re-installed the app, rebooted the phone, re-logged in, all the RE's it seems. But nothing has particularly helped in my problem. Perhaps, it's the Android app really that's the problem. 

I'm on Android version 1416/1.0.0.2020061103 to be exact.

How To: Transfer iTunes Playlists to USB Hard Drive

This How To applies to either Windows or Mac version of iTunes.

By default, iTunes allows you to burn playlist to a disc. You have the option further to create an audio CD, MP3 CD, or Data CD or DVD. But there's no option to transfer a playlist to a USB drive from the iTunes menus.

But the method is actually a rather simple one. Just open the playlist you like to transfer and select all the music files in the right pane of iTunes, then click and drag to the USB drive window, either in File Explorer for Windows or Finder for Mac.

Share in Blogs with Authority

What Sulit has done in its previous promotions -- i.e., post a badge linking to their website to your blog and you get a chance to win prizes -- is downright easy to manipulate.

It's so easy to create blogs. You can create blogs from left to right, from tumblr to wordpress to blogspot, etc. just to join the contest.  But it's not easy to create a blog that matters.

They should have at least limited their contest participants to those who have blogs that have authority. You don't get exposure -- much less link juices -- from blogs that sprout from out of nowhere, whose authors have no intention of keeping/maintaining. In the first place, they are considered spam blogs! They should include in the mechanics that only blogs with at least a PR of 1 are eligible for the contest.

BlackBerry Pin on the Internet

What do these people posting their BBM pin on the internet wanna do?

It's as if Facebook as a social networking ain't enough?

What to Expect in the Upcoming Facebook Timeline

It's gonna be your digital scrapbook:

Easily, it's described as:

• Cover;
• Stories;
• Apps;

Check out more about it here.

APN Settings for Globe, Smart and Sun cellular

For the benefit of everyone, different mobile networks require different APN (Access Point Name) settings. These APN even vary depending on whether you're on postpaid or prepaid.

APN Settings for Globe
Postpaid APN: internet.globe.com.ph
Prepaid APN: http.globe.com.ph

APN Settings for Smart Bro
Postpaid APN: smartbro
Prepaid APN: smartbro
APN Settings for Smart Buddy, Smart Gold
APN: internet

APN Settings for Sun Cellular
Prepaid
APN (static): minternet
Authentication: PAP
IP address: dynamic
Postpaid
APN (static): fbband
Authentication: PAP
IP address: dynamic

APN Settings for PLDT WeRoam
Postpaid: WEROAMPLAN

Creating a Windows Global Keyboard Shortcut (Hotkey)

You have this favorite application that you always access from time to time? You want to quickly access the same by a keyboard shortcut, say Ctrl + Alt + your favorite key, while being at any window at any time?

I used this procedure to quickly access my favorite calculator application, Moffsoft Freecalc, by assigning a global keyboard shortcut of F7.

This article describes how to create a keyboard shortcut for a program in Windows XP. Note that this feature works only with program shortcuts on the desktop or the Start menu. This feature does not work if the desktop shortcut is a shortcut to another shortcut.

Creating a keyboard shortcut

1. Right-click the desktop shortcut, and then click Properties.
2. On the Shortcut tab, click in the Shortcut Key box.
3. Press the keyboard combination that you want to use to start the program. The shortcut combination must consist of one character (a letter, number, or symbol) plus at least two of the following three keys: CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT.
4. Click OK.

Can't Edit Pictures in Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Can't edit pictures in Microsoft Office Picture Manager? Even though you have a valid license for your Microsoft Office 2007?

Download the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007 and you'll be good to go.

Download link.

Who Wants to Eat Spam?

Statistics say that Blogger/Blogspot is the number 1 blogging platform in the world right now. With that number I suppose comes the number 1 platform to accumulate the most number of abandoned blogs.

Furthermore, with the most number of abandoned blogs comes the most number of spam comments who went unmoderated.

Thus, Blogger/Blogspot could probably bag home the award for the top one spammer in the world.

Now, who wants to eat that spam?

Tumblr Being Down Lately

It has happened too often recently. Tumblr down for 4 hours or so. I wondering what's happening.

That's on top of the recent news from Mashable and Techcrunch that they have lately secured some funding from some unknown investors. Something could be brewing in the background. We can only hope for the best.

So Tumblr team, are we expecting something good out of these downtimes? Hope to hear your thoughts.

IPhone 4 Camera Flash Problem

iPhone 4 had a great camera. However, one problem I had was when using the LED flash at the back ofnyhe phone while taking pictures, all it returned are blown out green picyures.

I thought my iPhone's camera and/or flash is broken. Was actually planning of.bringing the samr to the nearest Apple store. Great that I googled about it before I did.

It appears that the problem arose from the fact that I have not yet removed or changed the plastic cover at the back that came with the phone. The same plastic was covering the flash and the camera, so that's why the flash is actuallu to the camera that's why the blown out pictures.

How fool of me.

What I'm Missing with the New Adsense Interface?

I hate it that when I open my Adsense account, I can't directly look at which ad units and ad channels are actually delivering me the ad revenues.

 

So, Google, what do you say about that? Please bring us back the old layout instead.

Is there a Better Way of Reading PDF EBooks other than Adobe Reader?

Actually, there is. And it's called Adobe Digial Editions.

The only thing I noticed that it offers as an advantage over the regular Adobe Reader is the ability to add a bookmark to a page to facilitate easy/quick going back to the same page where you last left off.

How I Find Tumblr Not So SEO Friendly

I was testing the waters with some sample posts in my Tumblr blog and try if Google can index it properly. (You may want to read, "110mb for Sale? What Happens Now to the Premium Subscribers".)

After a couple of days (or three), tried Google Web and Google Blogs — nada! The Google blogs actually even return at No. 1 (well, it was the latest) my main blog (Deuts.NET), which contained links to the latest entries at my Tumblr blog.

You see, my main WordPress (self-hosted) blog which shows only the title can actually rank higher than my Tumblr blog. Now, I'm wondering, should I retain my domain deuts.org hosted at Tumblr?

I'm starting to think twice. I liked Tumblr's Facebook application — no, I loved it! But the fact remains that I don't actually get that much traffic from Facebook anyway. Majority of the traffic in my Tumblr are from my followers there. Referrers — not even search engines.

How to Post Code Snippets in Blogger

Blogger/Blogspot is a great site to host your blog. However, you need to live with all its deficiencies. One example is how Blogger is formatting break lines and headings. I always hate it when I always have to edit my posts in order to control the look of my post depending on how many <br />'s and h(1,2,3) and even blockquotes are there.

Another is Blogger can't seem to recognize the tag <code> when posting code snippets if you have tutorials or how-to articles.

Good thing there is a tool to help you with posting code snippets: SimpleCode. You just have to enter your codes and it will generate the proper HTML markups to post to your Blogger, and maybe even blogging engines, blog.

How to Use WordPress Credentials for a Third Party PHP Application?

This tutorial will just deal with the simple usage of WordPress credentials in a third party app, particularly the login credentials, and not further check with the authority level or role of the user (i.e., subscriber, contributor, author, etc.).

Oftentimes, as we build a community, we often rely on the magnificent WordPress Mu to run that. But, however comprehensive it is, it just lacks something one way or another.

Say, you need an app located at a subdirectory of the main WPMU site, but that you want to limit access to that app/site to "logged in" users only of the WPMU site. There is a great way to do that.

Based on the article by Kenn Wilson, Howto: Display Wordpress content outside of your blog, here's the hack:

Globe Tattoo and Smart Bro: Can I Use My Regular Phone Sim Card?

I have been wanting to learn about this before purchasing a Globe Tatto or Smart Bro modems, now that they've become cheap these days. Was searching Google to no avail.

Now, I'm posting this up for the benefit of those still wondering. I happened to test both modems, and below are my observations. If you have comments, please feel free to post them below. (I would really appreciate comments).

How To Connect to Internet Using Smart Bro Prepaid ZTE MF627 on Ubuntu Jaunty

We have seen instructions like this (http://stephencuyos.com/?p=768) on how to connect to internet on Smart Bro using Ubuntu. However, in this illustration, Fr. Stephen Cuyos was actually talking about his modem which is a Huawei E156C (and I think it would still be applicable with any Huawei model).

However, the latest modem from Smart is the ZTE MF627 (see image), which is not yet supported inherently by Ubuntu. That's why we have to install some drivers yet in order to make the modem work with Ubuntu Jaunty.

I think I read somewhere in the Ubuntu Forums that the same model may already be supported in Ubuntu Karmic, which as of this writing is coming in 6 days.

Anyways, off with the tutorial:

We try to do it the GUI way as much as possible:

The Single Post Template in WordPress

Like me, many of you loved the ability to create and display a separate template for each page content in our WordPress blog. Each template may return or display a separate php script either from the built-in function of WordPress or from a third party script (just like Simplepie).

But what about posts (under the single.php)?

If you'd like simulate the capability of creating a different template for Page Templates, then this plugin (Single Post Template) could be your best bet. Templates can only be assigned on a per post basis. So you have to edit your earlier posts that you want to be displayed in your new specific template.

Feeddemon 3 is now Final and Out!

My used-to-be favorite feed reader client has gone out of version 3 beta and now ready for download. You can download the program from here.

I used to love FeedDemon, and used it almost everyday to check out the latest from my favorite blogs and news sites. However, while I started running Linux distros from my home machine, I found out FeedDemon is not available for Linux platforms. That's why I ditched it in favor of Google Reader.

But then, come version 3, it started supporting synchronization with your Google Reader feeds. It can now basically co-exist with Google Reader. And while I'm in a Windows machine I decided I should use it instead, for convenience sake.