I recently upgraded from a Garmin Forerunner 305 to a Garmin Edge 500 as my number-producing gadget for cycling stats. While the Forerunner is still what I’ll use whenever I go on runs, I’ve used the Edge on several rides now and have found it to be a huge improvement over the Forerunner.

Since it’s still relatively new (i.e., it was announced ages ago but it recently started actually shipping finally) and I couldn’t find a ton of data on it yet from other folks who have gotten their hands on it, I’m going to write up what I’ve noticed so far hoping it helps someone out who’s deciding on whether to pick this one up or not. Continue reading →

I’ve got an HTC Imagio that came pre-loaded with Opera 9.5. I decided to try out the two newer versions of Opera (9.7 and 10) though to see if I preferred either of them but in the end decided to just stick with 9.5. I uninstalled the two newer versions and all was fine except for the fact that Internet Explorer was now the default browser on my device.

Opera 9.5 doesn’t seem to have an option in the app itself to set itself as the default browser. I searched the web plenty and found some threads on ppcgeeks.com that pointed to the following registry key as the one that you need to set to change the default browser:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\DEFBROWSER\0
Value = Opera Browser
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\DEFBROWSER\1
Value = “\Windows\OperaL.exe”

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I recently got an HTC Imagio from Verizon running Windows Mobile 6.5 and have been very happy with it so far. Like all things gadgety though there are a lot of things to learn and tweak to further improve how much one gets out of them. I’ve noticed I’ve been making little tweaks here and there and learning about many that I wanted to keep track of as I was sure I’d eventually have to go back to some of them over time which led me to consolidating them in this post.

Below are a collection of tips, links, and other stuff that may be of interest to anyone who also uses an Imagio (and similar models). I’ll most probably update this post over time with newer information I find useful so feel free to check back over time. Continue reading →

If you’re having a hard time getting your Lenovo Thinkpad to use Aero under Windows 7, it’s probably because you don’t have the right driver. If you’re having trouble finding the right driver, it’s probably because you’re looking in the right place.

Going to Lenovo.com and searching the through the list of updates available for a T61 in the Windows 7 category currently shows zero updates for graphics. However, if you instead look under Windows Vista, you’ll be much more successful. In my case, that’s where I found the Nvidia driver package needed to get my laptop to use Aero under Win7. Here’s a direct link to the update that saved me specifically.

Once you’ve installed the drivers, you’ll have to enable Aero. To do so, I just picked one of the Aero themes and it immediately switched over to Aero.

I noticed my uploads were happening a bit faster so I decided to check in over at http://speedtest.net to see what my connection was clocking in at nowadays and was suprised to see that my upload speed was almost 10MB/s.

Download speed hasn’t changed much since last time but upload certainly has.

I’ve been running Windows 7 on several machines for almost two weeks now and things have gone much smoother than I would have expected considering it’s the first beta. The one thing I hadn’t dug into much yet was the fact that I still had two devices on my main desktop at home that didn’t get automatically detected. As a result, they sat in the “Other devices” node in Device Manager–driverless.

I headed to the HP support site and looked up my model: HP Pavilion Elite PC m9360f and ended up on this page. One of the devices I was looking to find drivers for seemed to be a Lite-On Wireless Network Adapter which I found in the list of drivers available for download. I went ahead and downloaded it and tried to run it but got a dialog that said:

Your system does not meet the minimum requirements for this update. Update has been cancelled. (9998)

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