Fixing the HTC Sensation WiFi hotspot app

Posted on Friday, 3 February, 2012 by fnx

Last year I got an HTC Sensation, with which I've been very happy (well, except for the ol' dust-under-the-screen issue, but I can live with that for now).  However, I could never get its WiFi hotspot app to work.  Till now. Continue reading →

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Recovering missing iPlayer icon from PS3

Posted on Sunday, 4 September, 2011 by fnx

OK, I was going to make my first post after the house burnt down about that, but frankly life's too short.  Check out the pics. on Picasa if you're interested.  Instead, this is about missing icons on the Playstation 3 after update 3.7.0. Continue reading →

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And here is WordPress 3.0

Posted on Saturday, 19 June, 2010 by fnx

Upgrading to 3.0 was quite a pleasant experience. Well, aside from apparently being hacked at the same time, that is.

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Send files to a bluetooth device from Linux

Posted on Thursday, 13 May, 2010 by fnx

Short and sweet, this one.  I think nautilus tries to be clever and produce a “send to bluetooth” menu option when you right-click on certain file types.  I've never had this work terribly well, if at all, so I've added the following script to my collection in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts.  I called it Send via Bluetooth, but anything'll do.

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Uploading pictures to Flickr from a Nokia N97

Posted on Thursday, 13 May, 2010 by fnx

Thought I'd tinker with picture uploading, but try as I might, I could only get my Nokia 97 to proffer Ovi as an upload target from it's Share Online application.  Seemed a bit fascist, so I did some googling ...

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Fedora 12 and amazonmp3

Posted on Sunday, 9 May, 2010 by fnx

Just discovered that the rather nifty amazonmp3 utility supplied by Amazon to do its MP3 downloads still only supports up to Fedora 11 (among other Linux distros), and won't run on my Fedora 12.  Fortunately, it's fixable.

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Have you sold your soul for games?

Posted on Wednesday, 21 April, 2010 by fnx

Around 7,500 customers recently sold their souls to games-shop gamestation.co.uk;  read more in this Yahoo news article.

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Mobile device colour test

Posted on Tuesday, 20 April, 2010 by fnx

A handy screen colour capability test by Merit Web. A must for showing how much better your new mobile is at displaying colour than somebody else's inferior device.

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Firefox 3.6 refusing to start

Posted on Wednesday, 7 April, 2010 by fnx

I started having an issue on my Linux box shortly after firefox 3.6 came out:  it simply refused to start.  It'd try, but then just quit, without ever displaying anything or printing any errors.

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Thunderbird failing to update extensions

Posted on Friday, 3 July, 2009 by fnx

So for a while I've been getting “An error occurred while trying to find updates for xxx” when looking for Thunderbird extension updates.  A bit of a Google has shown me the fix, so I thought I'd share.

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