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Ten Slide Design Principles for Educators
Parts.Common.Body.Summary.cshtml – The template for summary of a content item's body.Although this is geared for educators, anyone who creates presentations can learn a thing or two (or 10) from this slide deck.
Helpful Hint for HTC Arrive Owners
Parts.Common.Body.Summary.cshtml – The template for summary of a content item's body.If you have a Sprint HTC Arrive Windows Phone 7 and you can’t get the developer registration tool to work, then here’s your solution.
I found this after a lot of searching on the MSDN forums:
HTC Arrive configuration issue.
Try this:
- if connected, unplug the phone device from the computer.
_on the phone_: - Press the Windows button.
- Press the right arrow button, or swipe left, to expose application list.
- Select “Settings” option from the application list.
- Select “Cellular” option in the settings list.
- Select “Change Network Profile” and wait for this operation to complete. (This is a key step! However, you don’t need to actually change anything on the resulting page.)
- Press the back button or Windows key to exit the Settings application.
- Retry the phone registration process.
This worked like a charm for me and I’m sharing it here to save other the hassles I went through.
As far as I can tell this only applies the HTC Arrive phone.
- if connected, unplug the phone device from the computer.
Troubleshooting WiFi Troubles
Parts.Common.Body.Summary.cshtml – The template for summary of a content item's body.Recently, my WiFi router would stop working intermittently.
This was the fancy, new router which was built for performance. My wife and I are both geeks and our son is a young geek in training, who hates waiting for Sesame Street to stream.
A few weeks after replacing the old router, I was disheartened to see the new one breaking down so quickly. I began to ponder running fiber optic cables through the house.
Then I noticed two things: all my wired devices worked perfectly all the time and that this happened around the same time the new neighbors moved in. Were they the problem?
I started doing some troubleshooting and found out that there’s a simple command line utility to check for Wifi networks and their frequencies. It’s built right into Windows, so you don’t have to buy anything.
Here it is:
netsh wlan show networks mode=bssidRun that from a command prompt and you’ll see al the wireless networks within range along with some metadata about each one.
Turns out that there was a Wifi network on the same frequency as ours. I changed our WiFi router to another frequency and suddenly, everything became reliable again.
What surprises me is that we have this problem where we live, given that homes around here are fairly spread out.
I wonder what folks in more densely packed areas do. There’s only a finite number of WiFi channels/frequencies. So, what do you do when they’re all in use?