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Month: December 2010

Upgrading a Cliq XT…when Motorola won’t

Upgrading a Cliq XT…when Motorola won’t

Like many Cliq XT owners (TMO), I got tired of everyone in the world getting a newer OS except me…even the Cliq owners got 2.1 this past month, but Cliq XT didn’t. Yeah, well, enough of that crap. Here’s how I rooted and upgraded my Cliq XT: 1. Root the phone – instructions here2. Install Recovery image – instructions here3. Download ROM zip file (leave as ZIP file!) and copy to root of SD card – instructions here4. Boot the…

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Case expressions may only be nested to level 10

Case expressions may only be nested to level 10

I was working on a rather lengthy query that used a typical CASE WHEN THEN ELSE END sequence, but it kept telling me “Case expressions may only be nested to level 10”, even though I wasn’t nesting or doing something unique with them, just like this: case when field1 = ‘data’ then ‘data1’ when field1 = ‘datax’ then ‘data2’ when field1 = ‘datay’ then ‘data3’ when field1 = ‘dataz’ then ‘data4’ when field1 = ‘dataa’ then ‘data5’ when field1 =…

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Reveal most useful settings in Windows 7

Reveal most useful settings in Windows 7

Most useful here is subjective, but here is a quick way to create your own quick listing of common Windows 7 settings, including shortcuts, links to Control Panel items, etc. It’s definitely not an all-inclusive list, but it works, and it’s pretty cool. Create a folder somewhere (desktop preferably until you see what it does). Right-click and rename the folder .{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Note the period between and the unique identifier – very important! “Name of your choice” can be anything you…

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