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August 2010

Android, my biggest pet hate – no proxy settings

Earlier this week I started to work at a new company and like most companies these day they have secure WIFI and runs their internal network through a proxy server to connect to the internet.  One have to authenticate with the proxy server to access the internet.  This is normal procedure for about 99% of […]

Happy Birthday Debian – sweet 17

I have the privilege to share my birthday with some wellknown  people like Madonna (same age) and also the one thing that underpins the Operating System I use on a daily basis.  Yesterday, 16 August and 17 years ago Debian was born.  And Debian is the grand daddy of Ubuntu and all things **buntu*. Congrats to Debian […]

Update on HTC Desire SD Card that loose write access – observation.

As you know, my HTC Desire looses the ability to write to the SD Card from time to time.  For the past 3 days or so this has not happened (touch wood) and I was wondering what was different over the past couple of days than before.  Note that I have not upgraded to Android […]

Update on Froyo (Android 2.2) availability for HTC Desire in South Africa.

Here is an update on my earlier post. Leaf, the distributors of HTC phones in South Africa has clarified the situation regarding Android updates in South Africa.  I quote from a article that appeared on MyBroadband: To make zero-rated firmware OTA (FOTA) possible the operators need to agree to it and the required infrastructure needs […]

GMail multi-account usage – just love it.

I have more than one @gmail.com account that I use on a daily basis.  Yesterday Google enabled to make it possible to log into more than one account at the same time.  There currently is a limit of 3 accounts you can be logged into at the same time. Here you can see that I […]