Do you still want to buy the HP Office Jet 6210 All-in-one?

Probably you may not be able to, even if you want to. It is not sold anymore according to a chat I had with HP to day.

This was my experience yours may be different.

I bought this much publicized product after giving my Cannon 4400 which had served me for several years to some non-profit organization. This OfficeJet 6210 All-in-one functioned all right. I am not a heavy user as I care for the 'trees'.

Recently I wanted to change the black cartridge as it had run out of ink. I bought the ink cartridge from my Amazon.com shop at:

http://astore.amazon.com/httpwwwange06-20/105-0030929-3964432?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=4

I tried to change the newly arrived cartridge. The machine gave a strange message. It did not accept the cartridge. I called HP and went on a chat doing all kinds of suggested help. Finally the chat-help told me that it is a hardware problem and she cannot help any more. I am rethinking whether investing in a HP printer is worth it. They seem to change their product faster than Microsoft changes its software. It's incredible. The option the chat suggested was for me to buy the following:

l. REFURBISHED OJ 6310 UPGRD UNIT HP EXCHANGE TRADE UP GROUND SHIP $134.99.

2. The repair option (for online) for 119.99.

Do I like the options? You guessed right.

I suggest next time you shop for a printer look for printers other than HP printers. It is not just worth it.

About leaking HP Printer Cartridges:

While chatting with the HP Specialist I heard her mention that when the ink runs out, the cartridge leaks. But why? The color cartridge in my printer had leaked. What is your experience? Would you like to share?

View through Chardonnay

June 23, 2007

Picture taken at Lambertsville (Canon PowerShot SD600), NJ in Lambertsville Station Restaurant.

The lighting was perfect, the angle was perfect, I had to take it.

Which is better, the view or Chardonnay?

I found one similar on the internet.

Picture my son took

Here is a picture, my son Krishna took in my backyard.

Original size: 2816 X 2112 pixels, 180dpi, bit depth:24, sRGB

Canon PowerShot SD 600 with Digital Macro setting



Size in the blog: 256 X 192 pixels

Configuring Web email's SMTP and POP servers

You do not have an ISP's Mail account , or you want a web based SMTP/POP access on your Laptop, but you do have a email client, no problem. You can use GMail (or Yahoo Mail) to send / receive emails provided you have a Google (Yahoo) Email account.

This is not special to Google (Yahoo), you can do this with many others. Do not configure two email accounts as you will get twice the emails, one from each account.

The following recipe (not mine, but Google's) does this set up for you. But before you do this, you need to login to your email account and once there, go to the Settings page. In Settings click on the menu item, Forwarding and POP. Now Click on the radio button, Enable POP for all mail that arrives from now. After this follow one of the following:

1. You can download Gmail's GmailConfig.exe and run it from your computer



2. You open up your email client's Account from the menu item, Tools (the following screen shots are for the email client, Microsoft Outlook Express 6) and make the appropriate entries into some of the tabbed pages. For the ones not shown here, the defaults are used.

In the page opened by your General tab you need to type in your Gmail account as shown. You can give your own name for the first box.



In the page opened by the Server's tab you type in as shown in the next figure. Do not forget the check marks.



In the page opened by the Advanced tab make these entries and click OK. The account is now ready.



This is all that is needed.

'Happy Emailing.

SQL Anywhere 10 related articles

The articles are arranged chronologically from bottom to top. These articles show how you may work with Sybase's SQL Anywhere databases from several different perspectives:


Microsoft Word 2007's Mail Merge with a SQL Anywhere 10 database

Deployment of the MobiLink Synchronization Model Wizard in SQL Anywhere 10

MobiLink Synchronization Wizard in SQL Anywhere 10

Using Data Access Pages to Access Data on a SQL Anywhere 10 Database

Introducing Jasper (SQL Anywhere 10 Beta)

Migrating from Oracle 10G XE to SQL Anywhere 10

How to Access a SQL Anywhere Database with ColdFusion

Migrating an MS Access Database to SQL Anywhere with Migration Wizard

Using SQL Anywhere Database With a Web Services Server

Using DTS: Import From/Export To a Non-Microsoft Database

Creating Database Projects with SQL Anywhere Studio, Part 2

Creating Database Projects with SQL Anywhere Studio, Part 1