Alhambra Palace Restaurant is getting a lot of good reviews around

town.

More of a night club than a restaurant, the atmosphere is Middle Eastern

with belly dancers and elaborate decor. The food is excellent, too.

alhambrapalacerestaurant.com

– mb

TEDDY’S JUST GOOD FOOD NOW OPEN
286 W. Rand Road, Arlington Heights. Open seven days a week, 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. 847-670-0100.

Try the gyros, rotisserie chicken, hot dogs, beef, hamburgers, ribs, lots of salads, paninnis and lots of pastas. Ice cream, too.

Owned by Ted Pappas, a former owner of The Wellington on Arlington Heights Road.

teddysjustgoodfood.com

Woodfield Mall has stimulated much growth, such as its southern neighbors: townscape shopping center The Streets of Woodfield and many corporate offices.

Woodfield Mall is the largest shopping mall in the Chicago area in Schaumburg, Illinois at the intersection of Golf Road and Illinois Route 53.

Woodfield opened on September 9, 1971 with 59 stores, growing to 189 stores with 1.9 million retail square feet by 1973, the largest mall in the United States at that time. Woodfield is named for former Sears board chairman General Robert E. Wood and Marshall Field and Company founder Marshall Field.

The mall is the most visited tourist destination in Chicagoland and the most popular tourist destination in Illinois with 27 million annual visitors. The center features nearly 300 stores and is anchored by J.C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, Macy’s (formerly Marshall Field’s), Nordstrom and the country’s largest Sears store at 416,000 square feet. Woodfield is often used as a test market for retailers.

Woodfield Mall has stimulated much growth in the northwest suburbs. Thriving corporate centers have developed in nearby suburbs to be close to Woodfield Mall.  Also, two prominent shopping centers are adjacent neighbors to Woodfield Mall: The Streets of Woodfield and Woodfield Village Green. The Golden Corridor is a term used to describe the area around the Northwest Tollway (Interstate 90) in the Chicago metropolitan area, which encompasses Woodfield Mall. The Golden Corridor generates a “gold” mine of economic profit for communities in the area. Several Fortune 500 companies, office buildings, industrial buildings, exhibition and entertainment centers, hotels, shopping centers, and restaurants are located along the Golden Corridor.

Transportation
Woodfield is adjacent to Ilinois Route 53 and I-290. The Northwest Tollway (Interstate 90) also runs north of Woodfield, intersecting Route 53 northeast of the mall.

Pace Bus, the Suburban Bus service, has a complete bus center, which the ending of several routes. It is also the hub for the “Cubs Roundtripper” to Wrigley Field, “Bears Shuttle” to Soldier Field, “Six Flags Shuttle” to Six Flags Great America, and “The Flower and Garden Show” Shuttle.

The Woodfield Trolley (owned and operated by Pace) has begun service to the convention center from Woodfield, with trolleys running every 30 minutes.

Schaumburg also has a municipal Heliport (ICAO: 4H1) available for public use. It has the main helicopter pad, 1 helicopter parking space, and grassy area for extra parking.

Other Major Highways that go through the Woodfield area include:

The mall is located about 15 miles NW of O’Hare Airport and about 28 miles from Downtown Chicago.

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CNET Senior Editor Donald Bell removes the SIM card from an Apple iPhone using a paper clip. 

Apple Doc: Removing SIM card prior to iPhone repair

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MMS allows cellphone users to take pictures and send pictures to each other, just like a text message. Whenever you are sending a picture with a non-PDA cellphone, you are probably using MMS. Unfortanately, Apple iPhone users don’t have an easy way to do this, but it can be done. As you will find below, sending a picture to an MMS recipient can be simplified quite well after a little bit of work at first.

Apple iPhone supports SMS (Short Message Service) text messages, but the iPhone does not support sending or receiving MMS (Multimedia Message Service) messages. Apple iPhone users can send or receive photos as attachments in emails to e-mail recipients. But,  what about sending and receiving pictures with cellphone subscribers? Cell phone subscribers actually do have an email address associated with their SMS and MMS messaging. So the big question is, ‘can you see a picture that a cell phone subscriber sends to an iPhone?’ And, ‘can an iPhone send a picture to a cell phone subscriber that they can see on their MMS messages?’

We did two tests: What happens when a cellphone user sends an MMS message (a picture) to an iPhone phone number? And what if you want to send a picture from your iPhone Photo Albums section or your Camera Roll to a phone subscriber?

In the first test: Sending an MMS message with a picture taken from a Motorola phone from a Verizon Wireless customer, an SMS message was received on the iPhone.

The automated message said:

[The password and user name have been altered for security]

Unfortunately, you can’t copy and paste, but you can switch over to Safari on your iPhone, go to viewmymessage.com and enter your MSG ID and password. The picture that was sent to you is then displayed. A reply button causes an iPhone New Mail form to appear and displays the following address in the TO field: ’sender’s phone number’@mms.att.net.

The sender does not receive the reply on their cell phone with that mms.att.net address unless they are an ATT subscriber.

Here is the hard part: (1) you have to know what phone service your SENDER uses and (2) you have to add the respective address from the list below:

United States Carriers Listed

You replace the x’s with the 10 digit phone number (no hyphens, no parentheses, no slashes and no dashes). If you follow the instructions described below to enter any of your friends’ or business contacts’ in CONTACTS in advance, you can simplify the reply when it comes time to reply to an MMS from one of your contacts.

In the second test: Using iPhone’s capability to Share or Send photos from iPhone’s PHOTO ALBUMS or the CAMERA ROLL, you can send a photo to a phone subscriber by SHARING the particular photo and then adding the appropriate phone number and cell carrier suffix as the e-mail address. The photo is received by the MMS capable cellphone subscriber (sometimes in parts).

Both processes are not as easy as using an MMS capable phone. The worst part is that the viewmymessage.com MSG ID and the password contain a lot of characters — in some cases hard to decipher if the characters are an ‘l’ and ‘I’ or a ‘1′.

You might want to create entries in your address book with an extra e-mail address specifically for the contact’s cell phone MMS address. This makes the process of sending a picture to an MMS receiver quite simple because once the MMS email address is entered for your business or friend contact, you simply SHARE the picture from the PHOTO ALBUM or CAMERA  ROLL and then enter the MMS email address of that particular contact. Hit send from iPhone’s MAIL application and the picture is on its way.

You may also want to enter each of these carrier MMS suffix addresses in one CONTACT:

tx@vzwpix.com and so on for each carrier (’tx’ for telephone number) …

For reference you can have this CONTACT ENTRY with all of the MMS email addresses listed under one contact — for example, name your contact ‘MMS’ then list all of the cell phone carrier email addresses. Add each one with a name such as ‘tx@vzwpix.com,’  tx@mms.att.net and so on.

With all of this knowledge you can make your iPhone or Mac even more capable. You now have an effective way to get photos from cameras or websites to an MMS receiver: Take a picture or save a web photo in Safari on your Macintosh, import it to an iPhoto Album that you have set to synchronize with your iPhone and then share/send the photo to your MMS recipient. Or share/send the photo right from iPhoto using its share capability with the MAIL application. Use your contact’s MMS address and the photo can be sent to an MMS capable cell phone right from your computer. You might even save a little money on SMS messaging on your side, anyway.