Changing the 8525 Bluetooth Name

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Cingular 8525

By default the Bluetooth device name on the Cingular 8525 is the owner's registered name.

The device name can be changed by using a registry editor to modify the following key:

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Bluetooth\Settings\Local Name

Worked like charm for me.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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Javalobby was under spam attack over the holidays:

We had completely disappeared from Google's main index! If you run a website, then you know how serious a problem this is. On any given day over 10,000 visitors arrive at Javalobby as a result of Google searches, and suddenly they stopped coming! We had apparently been grouped together with the spammer's viagra and casino sites, and poof! Suddenly we no longer existed in the eyes of Google, the world's largest search engine. Countless thousands of well-ranked pages gone in a blink. Perhaps you now understand why I would commit a violent crime if I caught those forum spammers? In essence, they have wiped out strategic positioning that we took years to build.

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Erik's Pulse: Year in Review

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44 editions of The Pulse were published in 2006.

Here's your chance to get caught up if you didn't read them all.

Fremont

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Christmas Day in Vegas