24 December 2010
Restoring an Android phone
Not obvious, in particular on an AT&T-crippled device (which does not allow installation of non-market apps):
24 December 2010
Not obvious, in particular on an AT&T-crippled device (which does not allow installation of non-market apps):
29 January 2010
Coming soon.
13 October 2009
Next phone in line: Nokia’s latest “flagship” N97 touchscreen device. Verdict so far:
13 October 2009
Since my N95 died (sniff), I’m trying out some other (Nokia) phones. First in line: N96. Verdict:
15 August 2009
Using wordmobi. The pic has nothing to do with it.
5 January 2009
Using the newer speedtest at http://i.dslr.net/iphone_speedtest.html , I clocked the Nokia N95-3 using its native browser and the Nokia N800 using the latest native browser and Fennec, using Wifi on my home network:
1 January 2009
Open a Dropbox account, sync some files on your computers, and view them from the cellphone. Cool.
17 August 2008
LightNotepad: let’s see how this works
10 July 2008
Qik is a website for streaming video from cameras. Nice. Another way to compromise privacy. Or show cool stuff to friends. Well, they’re in beta, so I’ll give them some slack, but here is where it doesn’t get it quite right yet:
5 July 2008
Want to send the latest podcast, or movie, or whatever, to your phone – automatically – and find it there, waiting, in the morning? And whatever software you are using doesn’t quite do it? Here’s the trick (for Linux):
let dp1=$(date +%d)+1
curl http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/$(date +%Y/%m/%d)/${dp1}frontpage-p.mp3 \
-o nyt-frontpage.mp3 && obexftp -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 \
-p nyt-frontpage.mp3 && rm -f nyt-frontpage.mp3
where 00:11:22:33:44:55 is the BT address (which you can find, for instance, if you already connected using (KDE) GUI tools at /var/lib/bluetooth/names).