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Make sure the Wi-Fi radio is turned on if wireless access to a network goes missing.  It's common practice for vendors to include function buttons to toggle or control hardware features of their computers.  Typically, these control things like screen brightness and volume level.  Other toggles however, might be to cycle through monitor set-ups and to turn Wi-Fi on and off.  It seems like a "no brainer" but it can be simple to overlook if this control is never used, and this may well be the culprit of the network issue. The toggle is tripped with a function key combination.  This may be something like pressing the Fn and F2 keys together.  Presumably, there is a corresponding Wi-Fi indicator light on the machine, so if this lights-up after pressing this key combination, it's a good bet this has addressed the network "outage." NOTE:   The keyboard combination may vary by make and model.

With roots in Michigan , this blog is fond of the state.  It's specifically fond of western Michigan.  Accordingly, it has interest in the success of the Start Garden venture capital project in Grand Rapids .  The enthusiasm comes not only from pride in the state, but because Michigan has been getting too much bad press concerning its economy lately.  This venture is good not only because it's good news on the business front in Michigan, but hopefully because it will have an impact on the tech business front as well. Check it out with some of the following pages. About Start Garden http://startgarden.com/about Start Garden in Grand Rapids http://startgarden.com/space What's happening at Start Garden http://startgarden.com/events

Issue Google Hangouts for iOS does not receive instant messages or phone calls, but they are delivered correctly when the application is explicitly loaded. Cause The notifications for the application are not properly set up in the Notification Center . Solution Add Hangouts to the list of applications that are allowed to show notifications in the Notification Center. Open the Settings application. Choose Notifications . If Hangouts is not listed under the section In Notification Center , then scroll down to the section called, Not In Notification Center . Select Hangouts . Toggle the Notification Center  control to On . Optionally, set any of the other toggles from this panel. Make sure that Hangouts is listed under "In Notification Center." Hangouts notification settings. To close, just back out to the main settings panel, and click the center button on the device. Environment Device iPhone, iPad, iPod touch ...

There are two settings to adjust the color of the line pointer while debugging an application in Eclipse .  The distinction between them may not clear, so it will be made here. The settings are located in: Window | Preferences General | Editors | Text Editors | Annotations The settings are Debug Call Stack and Debug Current Instruction Pointer .  The latter is the one that shows the line the debugger is currently stopped at.  If the "Vertical ruler" checkbox is ticked, a right-pointing arrow will show up along the left edge of the editor window.  If the "Overview ruler" box is ticked, then a little marker, the same color as the pointer color, will show up along the right edge of the editor. For the former item, this refers to the settings that apply to any other line in the call stack.  So, the debugger "jumps" around the code when a line in the call stack is selected.  The color of that line and its ruler settings compared to the current lin...

A common gripe amongst ColdFusion detractors is its tag-based syntax.  And to be honest, who could blame them?  There is an endless collection of CFML code on the Internet that uses CF tags instead of CFScript notation.  This, in spite of CFML's support of script-based syntax since 1998 .  Granted, the provision was limited until version 9 , but that was 4 years ago. While some developers like the tag-style syntax, for those who don't it's easy to understand why the perception is that this is how CFML applications are coded. The following examples are comparing straight CFML with CFScript and are taken from Adobe's own help page. About CFScript http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec0a0e0-7ffe.html First using CFML <cfif IsDefined("Form.submit")> <cfif (Form.lastname NEQ "") AND (Form.department NEQ "")> <cfset employee = structnew()> <cfset employee.firstna...

Without much "hands-on" time with an iOS -supported device, it's difficult to tell for sure, but something looks very familiar about the design cues of Apple 's new mobile system. In spite of the noise Apple made around it's announcements a few weeks back, all the talk around the Web seems to be focused on the new "flatter" look of the interface design.  What seems to be coming out of this new look has been a move to look more like Android . A flat look is not, by itself, revolutionary.  Everyone is doing it, but when Apple is taking more and more "heat" about no-longer innovating, following suit in the design department too is certainly not going to help cool things down. For some examples of this similarity, take in the pages below, but bear in mind a couple of points.  One is that this example is of a dialog box in each of iOS 7 and Android 4.1 and to be honest, there's probably not much room for anything ground breaking can be don...

Windows systems have the ability to create files that "open" in a browser.  Create a text file with a ".url" suffix and the following content. [InternetShortcut] URL=http://subdomain.domain.tld The system will even go out and grab the favicon.ico file from the site to use as the file's icon.  Naturally, longer URLs can also be used.  For example: [InternetShortcut] URL=http://subdomain.domain.tld/some/path A special note It's important to note that Windows systems will likely be particular about how this file is accessed.  Specifically, concerning making changes to the URL it points to and accessing it through "Save as…" dialogs.  For example, if trying to attach this shortcut to an email message the dialog will appear to do nothing and the system will be sluggish for a short while. A workaround is to use an additional filename suffix to prevent the system from "recognizing" the file as an Internet shortcut.  So, perhaps...