January 2nd, 2012 by steve
I love Google’s “Instant Upload,” but suddenly it stopped working last month
After poking around the web, I found a suggestion that you login to Picasa and then it will work. Yeah, right — how can that fix it?

I don’t know, but it did.
I fixed Google+ Instant Upload simply by logging into Picasa on my desktop.
Tags: android, droid, google, photos, picasa, pictures
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October 11th, 2011 by steve
Recently, I noted that some apps on my Android were requiring updates a lot. At first I thought, “Wow — these developers are busy. But then I noted that the size of the update was the same each time. Exactly the same.
So I poked around and did some experimenting and found the solution.
- Let the download complete.
- From the Home Screen, select Menu / Settings / Applications/ Manage Applications /All
- Select the “Download Manager”
- Select “Clear data”
This solved my problem of some applications needing to update every day or every restart.
Tags: apps, downloading
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October 10th, 2011 by steve
I love dropbox and have referred it to many people and businesses.
If you’d like a referral, let me know. By your asking and my referring, we both get bonus free space!
Recently, on one of my computers, Dropbox had been stuck “Downloading 7 files…”
This problem persisted for several days.
At first, I tried uninstalling dropbox and deleting the C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox folder and even deleting all the hidden dropbox files (.dropbox files) in my dropbox folders. But upon re-installation of dropbox, the problem persists.
In the end, I ran chkdsk /F /R.
Upon reboot, chkdsk found many errors and fixed them.
The dropbox problem went away.
Tags: chkdsk, dropbox
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