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Cyclic sound MP3 audio recording in ubuntu 1 Oct 2012 | 02:07 pm
I work in a relatively safe environment, yet it may very well happen that I need to prove something that someone said in my office, so I can hold it against them when the time comes. My laptop is alwa...
Howto batch watermark resize convert crop images and pictures 2 Jul 2012 | 08:57 pm
Download IrfanView (if you already don’t have it installed, it is an awesome image viewer, and great for basic editing with its Paint plugin, installed by default) After opening the main viewer window...
How to drag and drop files between windows in Ubuntu Unity launcher bar 2 Jul 2012 | 08:40 pm
So I like Unity, it looks nifty and the Zeitgeist launcher is so productive. One huge gripe about unity though, is that you cannot, apparently, drag&drop files between applications open in the Unity l...
MyPhoneExplorer via Bluetooth: phone could not be indentified and parameter incorrect 11 Jun 2012 | 11:32 pm
Chances are that you are trying to have your Android phone sync with Outlook via MyPhoneExplorer, but whatever you do won’t work, since as soon as you try to connect, the procedure stops at “identific...
Convert a micro-SIM into a normal SIM card, just a knife without adapter 6 Jun 2012 | 04:53 am
Sometimes you’re stuck with a brand new microSIM that you can’t use in your phone, because you need a normal form factor SIM, but maybe you had this chance to activate a special promotion that only ca...
Ubuntu won’t start Gnome GDM after upgrade to Oneiric Ocelot 31 May 2012 | 09:11 pm
So I was upgrading my home server first from Maverick Meerkat to Natty Narwhal, and then from Natty to Oneric Ocelot. It is not a plain desktop installation, as back in the time I installed Ubuntu Ser...
Android ringtones notifications alarms resetting reverted or lost after reboot 6 Nov 2011 | 06:49 am
You just added a few ringtones of your own to your android device, but after each reboot you lose them and they are set to something else, or muted altogether? Just like something was resetting them, ...
Why Android sucks at managing battery drain and discharge 26 Oct 2011 | 08:14 pm
So here is my second rant about disliking Android. I should mention now that I am a happy user of this OS on my HD2 since a while ago, after discovering that CalenGoo is a great substitute for Microso...
Cache PHP to gzipped static html pages using htaccess redirect 10 Oct 2011 | 09:52 am
No matter the server performance, the fastest kind of website for a visitor is the one with static HTML pages; this way the server just has to upload existing data to the browser instead of starting t...
Why Android sucks for professional use 12 Sep 2011 | 05:38 am
UPDATE at the end of this post. I tried many, many times to switch from Windows Mobile to Android, and every and each time I went back to Windows Mobile. Honestly, I would like to upgrade, because my ...
