Category Archives: Tech

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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Cinema listings via MythTV

Posted on Sunday, 31 August, 2008 by fnx

The current MythTV has a “movies” section on the information centre that reports cinema times for local cinemas.

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grubbier

Posted on Monday, 30 June, 2008 by fnx

About time I wrote up a little of what I discovered while I was trying to fix grub when I replaced my MythTV boot drive.

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0wned no more

Posted on Saturday, 3 May, 2008 by fnx

Well, I’ve pretty much discovered what was going on with my box being hacked, and I’m fairly happy I’ve cleaned out the ‘infection’.

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0wned

Posted on Friday, 2 May, 2008 by fnx

Gack!  My home PC got cracked earlier in the week!

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