Hardware

Gadget Review: Blackberry Bold 9790

About a month ago, I had a nice surprise call from my wireless service provider (Rogers Communications). They offered me a free, no questions asked, no commitments, BlackBerry Bold 9790 smartphone. Of course I accepted it, and I’ll give it a quick review here. I should make note that I am unable to give the phone a complete review from the software side, because of limitations set by my service provider (they couldn’t enable the BlackBerry service along with my current 6G data plan, I’m not sure why). That said, I am able to utilize the majority of the phone’s features, which I’ll try to focus on here. Read more…

Brother Laser Printer – how to override “Toner Life End” shutdown

I’ve had a lot of success with Brother Laser printers over the years, and the HL-2170W has performed reliably over the last year, but suddenly stopped printing abruptly, with the Toner light solidly on.  I logged into the built-in print server (enter the printers IP address in your browser, default login is: admin/access), and a message of Toner Life End is displayed on main screen and maintenance Read more…