office:mac 2008

The new version of Office is great.  It works well with office 2007,  2003 and 2004 documents and the improved integration with Exchange within Entourage is great.  I use Sync services to synchronise contacts and calendar with the Blackberry (as I operate it on a BIS and not a BES – work wouldn’t pay the mean so and so’s). The only quirk I have found is that sometimes Sync Services turns itself off and calendars don’t get updated – very annoying.  I haven’t found out why it’s doing this, so if anyone has any ideas PLEASE post a comment or direct me to a forum or something to help me out here.  I have tried searching to no avail . . . .

Nokia N73 Woes

After a while with the N73 it started locking up – going to sleep and not being able to wake, usually after a calendar notification or mail notification, and the only way to recover was to pull the battery.  Eventually this deteriorated and the phone would power down for no apparent reason.  I therefore contacted T-Mobile and arranged for it to go for repair.When it returned it was totally wiped (to be expected I suppose) so I put Mail for Exchange on it again and it started locking up again.  I decided I’d have to do without mail on this phone – my main reason for going for this model, so now it was just a phone . . . bummer!!A few weeks later the battery started discharging rapidly – less than 24 hours – with minimal use.  I got a new battery, which did the same.Another call to T-Mobile – phone went for repair and arrived back again.  Picked it up from thepost office – Sim Card went in, memory card went in, battery went in, back on, power up and shove the thing in my pocket and drive to work. Now I didn’t remember hearing the Nokia chime and the T-Mobile noise that usually announced the startup of the phone and when I parked up I got the thing out of my pocket and looked and it had hung during boot at the Nokia screen – strange.Battery pulled out and back in again.  Same thing – no boot up.  Now I was getting very annoyed.  I was ready to accept defeat and would have been happy to pay a little more and get the phone returned, upgrade to a Blackberry.  I phoned T-Mobile.The  person I spoke to said he would arrange for it to go back for repair.  When I said I was not happy for that to happen as the thing had just been repaired he was not interested.  I was refused an upgrade to a higher tariff and a different device as I’d only had the thing about 6 months on an 18 month contract.  Bummer . . .So, after a little more playing with the phone I removed the memory card, battery and SIM.  Thinking I’d give it one last go I put in the SIM and battery and it worked!  I put in the memory card again and it didn’t.  So, memory card and phone?I tried the memory cared in a number of other devices and they all read it fine.  I reformatted it and still the same – caused the phone to hang.  Conclusion – memory card socket or circuitry is damaged.  Since the phone can’t be used for what I wanted to use it for I thought I’d just forget about it, use it just as a phone and wait until the contract ended.  I went to O2 and got the Blackberry so now I’m back to 2 devices .  One good thing though – the Blackberry seems to be rock solid stable and great for e-mail (I got the Curve).  When it comes to contract renewal I’ll certainly be thinking about going for another Blackberry and I’m resolved never to get another Nokia phone.