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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Posted in Software
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Tagged hack, wordpress
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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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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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Posted in Tech
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Tagged flikr, nokia, ovi, photos
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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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Around 7,500 customers recently sold their souls to games-shop gamestation.co.uk; read more in this Yahoo news article.
Posted in Fun, Tech
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Tagged Fun, games, joke, Software, soul
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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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Posted in Tech
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Tagged colour, display, mobile
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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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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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The current MythTV has a “movies” section on the information centre that reports cinema times for local cinemas. Continue reading →
Posted in Films, Tech
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Tagged cinema, mythtv, perl, uk
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Posted in Films
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Tagged disney, tron
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