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And here is WordPress 3.0
Upgrading to 3.0 was quite a pleasant experience. Well, aside from apparently being hacked at the same time, that is.
Send files to a bluetooth device from Linux
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
Uploading pictures to Flickr from a Nokia N97
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 …
Fedora 12 and amazonmp3
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.
Have you sold your soul for games?
Around 7,500 customers recently sold their souls to games-shop gamestation.co.uk; read more in this Yahoo news article.
Mobile device colour test
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.
Firefox 3.6 refusing to start
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
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.
Cinema listings via MythTV
The current MythTV has a “movies” section on the information centre that reports cinema times for local cinemas.