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Did you know you could synchronize your Windows Mobile device with Google Calendar without using any third party application? Amazing, isn’t it? Simply follow this link:

Set Up your Windows Mobile Phone

I hate when Hard Drives fail. Ok, I’m a paranoid so I backup everything but… reinstalling everything just sucks. And if you have a bad Karma, a device that worked may not install anymore. That’s what happened to my Creative Zen which refused to work on a Windows XP sp3 fresh installation! If Windows tries to scare you with an error message stating that “a section in the INF file is invalid”, simply download and install the following file:

UMDF Driver Update

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/Me OMFG

Do you know someone on this planet who can manage to destroy a 399€ jewel in less than a hour? Now you do. I just tried to update the BIOS of my new, flaming, MSI Wind U100 Black when I found out power wasn’t plugged. So I thought “what’s the problem, let’s just plug it in”. I wish I had never done that: keyboard suddenly stopped working. I tried rebooting to Windows XP (a pure DOS environment is required for BIOS updates) but, sadly, nothing changed. Keyboard was not working, no keystrokes where detected, I wasn’t even able to get into BIOS, since DEL key wasn’t working as well. But, before getting too despaired, I tried to unplug Wind’s power sources (yes, even the battery!). After a few minutes, I turned it on again and keyboard was working again.

I hope you will find this article useful, it could save your heart from breaking in case you encounter this very same issue

So here we go with tip #2 for this great plugin. I wanted to show both the flag and the name of available languages on my wordpress sidebar. The function responsible for checking available languages is polyglot_list_langs, which I had to modify a little bit to suit my needs. Ok, let’s stop talking and start coding

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If you need to publish the work on your WordPress blog in two or more languages, there is a great chance that you will be using Polyglot. It is a great plugin, works nicely and allows to publish multiple translation of your texts. I tried to enable the language sidebar in my theme, but somehow things got weird (the list was misplaced). Digging through polyglot code, I found a way to fix this behavior. Just follow those few simple steps…
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