The “Break it Down” Blog

Z2K9: 30GB Zunes Everywhere Locking Up for the New Year

It seems that Microsoft’s “iPod Killer” 30GB Zune players are all failing in unison as the New Year approaches across the globe for some reason. On startup, as the device boots, it seems to hang at the last bit of the boot process — the worst part is that the devices all seem to have [...]

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Trying to Work Around T-Mobile G1-Specific Data Plans May Backfire

We recently posted how to use the T-Mobile $20/mo EDGE data plan with your G1 (instead of the more expensive $24.99/mo T-Mobile G1 data plan), but it looks like this may not be all roses and flowers. As it turns out, there is another workaround similar to this using the T-Mobile “Total Internet” data plan package [...]

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How to Use T-Mobile $20 BlackBerry EDGE Data Plan with Android G1 Phone

Update #2:As a heads up to anyone wanting to try this out, please read this post first before continuing. As you may know the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is out, and requires some potentially expensive-ass data plans to function fully ($24.99 for unlimited “data”, but 400 messages including “SMS, IM and email” or $34.99 for [...]

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Working Around Gmail Contact Importing: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts.

If you are like me and trying to get your contacts all organized in Gmail, you may likely be running into the god-forsaken phrase: Oops. An unknown error occured while importing your contacts. … over and over again; no matter what you do. I was trying to import some CSVs from Windows Vista Contacts (exported from Windows [...]

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