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[4 Jan 2010 | 3 Comments | ]

OK – Bell Sympatico is on the ball again. Today I received an automated voice message that I should visit www.bell.ca/updateemail. It is a good thing I was home! When I looked at the web page it told me that I have to update my settings no later than… today!
And what do I have to do? Update my email program, because Sympatico has moved more accounts over to new mail servers. Yes, I knew what trouble this would cause me, because I have another Sympatico email account that had to …

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[17 Jun 2009 | 5 Comments | ]

There are a lot of times when you want to find out whose phone number just called you. Maybe you suspect that your partner is having an affair. Or you see strange phone numbers appearing on your phone bill. And perhaps you want to investigate the caller ID of that telemarketer that interrupted your dinner.
Telemarketers are getting more and more aggressive. And the technology available today gives them a whole arsenal of tools to work with. I don’t know about you, but I have been getting more and more automated …

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[12 Nov 2008 | 3 Comments | ]

The Internet is a great tool, with so much information available. We more and more rely on what we can find in the search engines as oppose to asking a question by phone or browsing through books. But it is all about knowing where to FIND it…
So – how do I find a phone number? Or: where can I find out who a certain (mobile, unlisted) number belongs to?
Well, in Canada I usually go to 411.ca. It both has phone search and reverse number lookup.
But the US is so much …