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Marius

Update on HTC Desite SD Card that loose write access

I have blogged about my problems with my HTC Desire SD Card here and here before. I have managed to get another 4GB Sandisk SDHC card but the problem still persist.  I have tried the following: Use the card as it was formatted when I received it .. just copied the data across from my […]

MTN Shop (Wollowbridge) customer service shocking – refuce to replace faulty HTC Desire SD Card #MTN #HTC

I have a HTC Desire with a faulty SD Card.  This morning I went to the MTN Shop in Willowbridge, where I got the phone less than a month ago, to have the SD Card replaced.  I was amazed at the shocking service that I received.  First they wanted me to buy a new SD […]

HTC Desire — SD Card saving/writing problems part 2.

In a previous post I mentioned that my HTC Desire has intermittent problems writing to the SD Card. From my Googling and reading I tried the following without any success.  One suggestion was to switch off the Automatic Backup to SD Card which I did.  No luck. Another suggestion seems to be that running Task […]

Twitter Location — Firefox more accurate than Google Chrome

I notice this morning when I viewed Twitter via the browser interface it had an Add Location just under the Tweet/Update input box.  I added my location in both Firefox and Google Chrome and Firefox was more accurate about it.  I assume it is either using IP addresses or more likely my Wireless on my […]

HTC Desire — problems writing to SD Card — #HTC

As mentioned in a previous blog post I have ordered a HTC Desire and have received it a couple of weeks ago. The HTC Desire is a great phone and I am very happy with it except for one minor issue I have with it.  There is a intermittent problem writing to the SD Card.  […]

Upgrade to WordPress 3

This blog was just upgraded to WordPress 3.0 .. if you see anything funny and not behaving like it should be then please let me know.

Eat your heart out iPad — I want one of these

From TechSource, I quote On the hardware side, it has 1 external USB, 2 internal USB, motion sensor, Ethernet connector, microphone and headphone ports, front-facing web camera (2-Megapixel), ambient light sensor, accelerometer, and more. On the software side, the device is running Linux but we don’t have further details about it. It could be Android, or […]

Why I use Google Chrome more and more on Ubuntu 10.04?

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 and have both Google Chrome (v 5.0.375.38 beta) and Firefox (v 3.6.3) installed.  Although Firefox is still setup as my default browser, I find myself using Chrome more and more and it is mainly for the following reasons: Chrome starts up much, much faster than Firefox.  I have almost the […]

Upgrade to Lucid — 2 done (sort of), 1 to go

As mentioned in this post and this one, I have 3 machines to upgrade. Today, I bit the bullet and did my IBM production workstation.  As mentioned in this post, the upgrade path is not the normal Ubuntu one but an internal IBM one.  It went fairly well except for the internal part that failed.  […]

HTC Desire – ordered

I have always been a Nokia man, but have decided to broaden my horizons and go for an Andriod phone.  Yesterday I popped into my local MTN shop and placed my order for the HTC Desire.  On Twitter, MTNSouthAfrica last week said and I quote The HTC Desire should be in stores next week – […]