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 […]
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Marius
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Coming week HTC will start to roll out Froyo (Android 2.2) to some users in Europe. Just to give you an idea what is new in Froyo: 720p video recording iTunes syncing via HTC’s Sync software — this is for all you Windows guys/gals out there The “AppShare” widget that came on the Wildfire Smart CallerID In […]
I have a desktop running Ubuntu 10.4 and the latest version of XBMC as my Media Centre. It is used for all my Media requirements whether it is to watch Movies or some Series, looking at photographs or listening to my music collection. Up until today I had to control it either via a mouse […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]