How to delete Gmail messages on your iDevices instead of archive

This is practically an overdue feature, especially if you are using Gmail exchange account on your iDevices. I did not know until today that Gmail has provided an additional setting under Google Sync which enable you to actually delete Gmail messages instead of archive them. Basically when you swipe or tap delete on any message, the iOS will "tell" Gmail to archive it. This occurred only on Gmail account which you have set as exchange account. 

To "actually" delete Gmail messages you need to reconfigure Google Sync to delete messages on your iDevices. 

To do this, follow these simple steps to enable the "Delete Email as Trash" feature in Google Sync:

Go to m.google.com/sync (please note that the Google Sync features are only available only if you've setup your Gmail account as a exchange account). You might probably get an error screen of "unsupported device". Here is the trick: go below and find an option to change the language. Change the language to English (US). The screen will automatically refresh and you will have Google Sync screen. 

Login using your Gmail username. You'll get into Google Sync configuration. Here you should see a list of your iOS devices that are configured to use Gmail. 

*//Tap on the relevant iOS device.

*//You should now see an option to Enable "Delete Email as Trash", tap to select this option.

*//Tap on the save button.

That's it, now when you tap on the Delete button in the Mail app on that iOS device or you swipe to delete, Gmail should send the email to the Trash folder instead of archiving it.

Note:

Google Sync features are available only via Microsoft Exchange. Google Sync via Microsoft Exchange includes push email feature, which means that the emails will be delivered to your iOS device as soon as it arrives, unlike the regular Gmail account, which retrieves emails at x time basis.

Samsung Galaxy Ace portable hotspot error

My wife has been using Samsung Galaxy Ace for a year now. But several
months back she always got an error when switch on portable hotspot
feature. Nothing that I did would resolve it. The original firmware
was 2.2.1.

A week ago I updated the firmware to 2.3.5 and the portable hotspot is
working fine now.

I think the problem lies in the old firmware. Nevertheless I can not
justify what went wrong. Still, it is good to have this feature back.

How to disable iPhone's cellular network and use wifi connection only

This is very useful if you are in a low cellular coverage area but you
have a very good wifi coverage as I had this morning. Most of mining
area, especially remote one in Indonesia, would most likely have this
condition. Keeping your iPhone to automatically search for cellular
network would drain its battery within no time. I hope this trick,
which I put in this post as a reminder for me, would be useful for
you.

Go to Settings > Airplane Mode, switch it On
This will switch all iPhone's radio off.

Go to Settings > Wi-Fi, switch it On
Select a hotspot.

That's it. That was not so difficult.

How to define a new style or template in Calc of OpenOffice

This is my note on how to define a new style or template in Calc of OpenOffice, especially v 3.3. This can be done if you want to have different-yet consistent style, other than the default one, every time creating a new spreadsheet. This can also be done if you want to have a specific column width on your new spreadsheet.
  1. Create a new document, add or modify styles, change other settings as you require
  2. File menu, choose Templates > Save
  3. Give your template a name
  4. Select a category in the Categories list (e.g. My Templates)
  5. Click OK to save the template
  6. Choose File > Templates > Organize
  7. In the Categories list, double click on the My Templates folder
  8. Right click on the template you want to use as your default template and choose Set as Default Template from the menu
  9. Click Close
I've never tried this for other app under OpenOffice, but I figured out that it would be the same.

Removing Microsoft Silverlight on your Mac

I've been dealing with removing Microsoft Silverlight for sometime and I really think that I should write it down because there's no "easy" way to completely remove Silverlight on my Mac.

So, this is how you remove Microsoft Silverlight on your Mac - under Snow Leopard

1. Remove the Plugin in ~/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin
2. Remove Silverlight folder in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Silverlight
3. Remove the receipts (try using Command + F, type "silverlight") in ~/var/db/receipts

That should do it.

Shortcut keys for UberTwitter 0.971

I'm a fan of UberTwitter (UT), a small yet powerful Twitter client for
BlackBerry. To elevate the usage of UT, I frequently use shortcut keys
instead of the menu. Here are UT's shortcut keys:

U for update status / compose new tweet
R for reply to a status
J for reply all
L for ReTweet
D for direct message
G for go to user
S for search
O for refresh
V for favorite a status
Z for email a tweet

How to delete your browser history

... devices that aren't yours -- whether at a friend's house or a public place like a library, hotel or a cafe -- are a privacy risk, because anyone can see what you've done online just by checking out the web browser's history.

Excerpt from Wired.com.

Day by day, I found that things that very easy for certain people might become big challenge for other, including clean up browser history. Other than privacy issue, cleaning up browser history would give you extra disk space.

The article is straightforward and useful for many people since it covers several types of browser. However, BlackBerry Bowser is not included within the article. And since most of Indonesian mobile users are BlackBerry users, this is how you delete your browser history: From your browser, BB menu > Options > Cache Operations > Clear History. You may also clear the Content Cache, Pushed Content, and Cookie Cache.

Q is an extra convenient key for BlackBerry

Press and hold Q on QWERTY BlackBerry to change to vibrate profile. Press and hold Q again to switch back to normal profile.

I love my BlackBerry even more. I usually use "f" shortcut key and use the trackball to choose the profile. This extra convenient key somehow reminds me to my old Treo. It gives you the ability to switch your profile between normal - vibrate easily.