We previously covered how to use your Blackberry Pearl as a modem on your Mac, but here is a method to use the Pearl as a Modem on any computer, WITHOUT incurring any fees.

Now granted this is a hack, and probably breaks your TOS with your service provider – so use with caution.

• Start your BlackBerry Desktop Manager and it should be running in the background. there is no need to click on any options. just open it. This is required to use BlackBerry as an external modem.
• Conenct your BlackBerry using USB cable to your Computer.
• Click on start->Control Panel -> Phones and Modems->Press Enter
• Click on Modem tab-> select the standard modem -> click on Properties -> Advanced and add only ONE of the following Extra initialization command line That applies to your carrier. APN Settings:

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There’s a very simple and cool trick in Gmail to find out if any websites gave your email address away. In this example your Gmail addy is flowergirl1172@gmail.com (I have no idea why I chose that).

When filling in a registration form www.whateversite.com enter your email address as flowergirl1172+whateversite@gmail.com. When Gmail sees a “+” in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to flowergirl1172@gmail.com.

The additional bonus is that when you search flowergirl1172+whateversite@gmail.com in Gmail, you will see all emails that were sent to that address. Then simply click on the ‘details’ link to see who sent you message.

Sweet!

It was announced in January that Netflix would be slowly enabling all their subscribers to have streaming access to select movies in the “Q”. The problem is the rollout will take until JUNE.

Here’s how you skip waiting in line:

The manual method:

• Log into Netflix.
• Click on “Your Account”
• Look for a small graphic on the right column that says “How can I watch movies on my PC?”
• Click the “Start Now” link, and voila, you have a new tab next to Queue.

or you can just click this link to bypass the “roll-out” completely.

Cell Start eat your heart out! This car antitheft mechanism is a TESLA coil. Shocking!

Australian Peter Terren placed a ring of electricity (which has been nicknamed “The Lord of the Rings’” Eye of Sauron) around the car by attaching a 4-inch coil to a boom on the roof of a rented vehicle since he doesn’t own one.

Wonder if the car had insurance? I can just image returning the car if something went wrong.

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Want more efficient Google Search results without the bloat and need for constant scrolling? I’ve found just the answer to creating a super slimmed-down internet browsing experience thanks to two easy to find tools – Firefox and the Stylish extension (previously mentioned). Want to get the same two columned results page sans advertisements – even going so far as minimizing the top Google logo and account links? Use the following steps and you’re be on your way.

• Ensure that you have Firefox installed along with the Stylish Firefox extension.
• Point your browser towards Userstyles.org.
• Install the following Userstyles: Clean Gmail, Google – remove ads, and Google Search Columnized.

Once you’ve loaded those scripts, your Google interfaces – Gmail, Calendar, & Search – will look much cleaner and compact allowing you to maximize usage without being hindered by extra interface bloat.

This extremely invasive (but safe) operation will allow you to add a second internal bootable (and RAIDable) Hard Disk drive to your MacBook or MacBook Pro by removing your optical drive. It is kinda a novel way to add storage considering how infrequently we use our optical drives and but are always clamoring for more HDD space. This is not for the faint of heart, and will require your Mac to go to an authorized service provider – but if you need the storage MCE has a solution!

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Convert four similar (non SDHC) SD Cards to work in tandem as a 8GB solid state 2.5″ IDE drive. Priced at almost $260 plus the cost of the media, this not something you would buy on a whim.

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Tired of those little popup thought bubbles annoying you and your workflow in Windows? Here is how you disable them.

Attention to all online banking junkies, and Bank of America customers, Fire up your phones WAP browser and go to http://www.bofa.mobi for the Sign-In and information page.

So, mobile phone junkies can use this free service when they’re on-the-go to check account balances, pay bills and transfer money.

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A great find! Someone tracked down a full article from a 1950 “Popular Mechanics” magazine that was trying to predict 50 years into the future and give foresight as to what was around the corner of the future (dun dun dunnnnnn) with full page scans including pictures (illustrations) and packed full of wishful thinking!

Check out this gem:

“Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her daily cleaning with a hose”

The really cool and sometimes sad part is some of them have actually come true!

“Cancer is not yet cured in 2000. But physicians optimistically predict that the time is not far off when it will be cured.”

and last but not least… more wishful thinking and … well… just read it.

“If old Mrs. Underwood who lives around the corner from the Dobsons and who was born in 1920 insists on sleeping under an old-fashioned comforter instead of an aerogel blanket of glass puffed with air so that it is as light as a thistledown, she must expect people to talk about her “queerness.”

Who would have thought an old blanket was so faux pas!?

Classic!

via Modern Mechanix