Category Archives: Tech

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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grub

Posted on Sunday, 27 April, 2008 by fnx

I’ve been trying to replace my current 2 hard drives in my MythTV PVR with a single new one, but have suffered major grief getting the thing to boot.

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