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My name is Andrew Sutton, aka Shandy.

I am currently living and working in the UK within the garment industry as an IT specialist. This blog contains mainly IT related issues.

I was a Microsoft VB MVP for a couple of years (Apr 2004-Mar 2006) and was a vbCity Leader between April 2003 and June 2007.

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Saturday, July 02, 2005 #

Gadgets - New Category For My Blog

OK, I admit it; I like gadgets. About 8 years ago I had a bit of a reputation as gadget person as I was the only one of my circle of friends to have a personal pager, mobile phone and computer network in my house. I've let things slip since then. The pager is back in the UK, the computer network too.

However, in the last 6 months I'm back on track. I have digitial cameras, a camcorder, Smartphone, tablet PC, and a variety of computer perhiperals, MP3 player ..

So I thought I'd add a Gadgets category to my blog so all my gadgety posts could be collected together :)

posted @ 12:26 PM

I now have my i-mate SP3 connected to the internet through Dialog GMS's network in Sri Lanka

I am following up from my previous post, i-Mate SP3 & Dialog GSM In Sri Lanka - Teething Troubles. The good news is I now have my i-mate SP3 connected to the internet using Dialog GSM's pre-paid service. My wife, Helen, took the i-mate SP3 to the local Dialog GSM centre (on Duplication Road, just down from Liberty Plaza) and it took a couple of their technicians 15 minutes or so to get it connected.

It was the first time they had seen an i-mate SP3 as apparently it is not a model readily available in Sri Lanka.

For the record the way to get it connected to Dialog GSM you need to select

Start, 8 Settings, 9 More, 2 Data Connections, Menu, 1 Edit Connections, 4 GPRS Connections, Menu, Add (giving the connection a name) and ensure the following properties are set (leaving all others blank - or 0.0.0.0)

Connects To: The Internet
Access Point: ppinternet

Start, 8 Settings, 9 More, 2 Data Connections,

Internet Connection: <The name you gave the connection setup in the point above>

Start, 4 Internet Explorer, Menu, 6 Options, Connections and set the following property:

Select Network: The Internet

I had done all of the above but used the incorrect Access Point as both the one on the web site and the one given out by their on-line support were incorrect.

posted @ 11:38 AM

MVP Login Screen - Still Using Old Logo ...

You've got to chuckle. With all the fanfare of the new MVP logo the MVP login screen still has the old logo on it ;-) I take its just an oversight and not an indication on Microsoft back tracking on the logo?

posted @ 11:18 AM