Good Website for Steps to Add Google Apps Sync tools to a Blackberry

Mobile Device Setup
Using Google Apps With Your BlackBerry Mobile Device

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If you have a Domain account with Google Apps and using Google Apps Sync and want to add Google Sync to your Blackberry.

Here are the steps and documentation you will need.

Outlook 2007 large .pst's and .ost's

You may experience performance problems when you are working with items in a large.pst file or in a large.ost file in Outlook 2007. For options to address this see the KB article from Microsoft.

from Microsoft support KB article 932086.

Solid State Drives in Laptops - A good idea?

Now that the prices have come down significantly for Solid State drives (SSD) in laptops... Are they a good idea over traditional SATA drives?

They definitely can be but be aware of one really key thing:
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From Dell Article ID: 340915

"SSD random write performance is more negatively impacted by applications which use small packet sizes. An application like Microsoft® Outlook®, that issues a significant number of small block random write commands can overwhelm an SSD when Outlook mail file sizes are allowed to grow over 1.5 to 2 GB"

The good news: "Solid State Drives (SSD) provide significant performance advantages over traditional hard drives during random and sequential read operations due to their lack of moving parts. SSDs do have inherently lower write performance, especially during random writes.

886% Growth During Second Quarter - Shipments of Google's Android OS

Shipments of smartphones running Google’s Android OS grew 886 percent during the second quarter, while the worldwide market grew 64 percent annually, helped by Apple, HTC and RIM.

From eweek posting.