Cell phone tip: Remove false voicemail indicator
Apr 27, 2010 Cell Phones, Work
With my day job I have to deal with a lot of cell phones (around 200 to give you a good idea). Recently a co-worker came to me stating that they had the new voicemail icon on their home screen and when they checked the voicemail it was empty. My first solution to solving a cell phone issue is a battery pull while the phone is still on. However with this situation it did not solve the problem. With this particular phone being a Verizon phone I did the standard *228 to update the phone just in case with no luck either. The fix is actually to just call and leave a new voicemail on the phone and wait for the phone to prompt you of a new voicemail. Once you have the new prompt of a voicemail listen to the message and hang up. The voicemail indicator should be gone.
*This was done on a Motorola W755 but should work for other phones. I have seen this same issue on a BlackBerry however this did not seem to fix the BlackBerry.
Tags: Cell Phones, Tip, Verizon, Voicemail
My new ride – 07 Suzuki SV650s
Apr 18, 2010 Transportation
Last week I purchased my first motorcycle. I am rather excited to get out and start riding. It has been an interesting learning experience learning how to ride. I have never ridden a motorcycle before or driven anything with a manual transmission. After a short while of practicing in my yard in the soft grass I finally started to get the hang of it. I am glad that I started to learn how to ride in the grass as I have already dropped it doing 5-10mph in my yard. Nice thing about that was it did no damage to the bike. I have read that most people in the first 5 months of owning a motorcycle drop their bike at least once. Let’s just hope that my spill in the grass was my once. 
The bike is a 2007 Suzuki SV650s with 4,488 miles I bought used from a guy up in Holland Michigan off of Craigslist. Anyway, here are a few pictures of the new bike.
Here is the surprise I found while doing some work on the bike before I get plates on it.
Tags: Motorcycle, Suzuki, SV650
Adobe Reader closes unexpectidly when printing
Apr 8, 2010 Technology, Work
When there are a lot of employees working on the same computer something is always bound to break. Lately the item that is breaking is Adobe Reader when trying to print on our Terminal Server. It has happened frequently in the past but has started to happen again lately. The most interesting part about this problem is that it does not happen to everybody who is logged into the Terminal Server. If it was happening to everybody my phone would be ringing off the hook as a lot of our reports get exported to PDF and then printed. If an employee rarely prints any PDF files they may not even know that there is a problem as you can still open the documents to view without any problems. The problem only comes about when trying to print. In my circumstance we have found that it is a printer driver issue. Below is how to troubleshoot and fix the issue:
- Open a PDF file to print and select print. If Adobe Reader crashes we know we have a problem
- From the Windows Start menu select Printers and Faxes or Control Panel and then go to the printer section
- Right click on your default printer (Identified by check mark on printer) and navigate to Properties
- Once in the Properties section select the Advanced tab and find the Driver drop down menu. Change the driver to one driver below your current driver and then click apply. Once you have changed your printer driver change the driver back to the correct driver.
- Attempt to print PDF file again. If it works than that was all the problem was. If it does not print than you may need to re-install Adobe Reader.
Changing the printer driver to another driver and then back again seems to fix the issue. We use a combination of HP and Savin printers and it happens more with the Savin multifunction printers.
If you have any more information on this please leave a comment and I will attempt to get back with you.