I had the radio subsystem lock up on my Nokia 5300 the other day. The rest of the phone was fine - I could write SMS’s, listen to MP3s, even copy data via the USB port - but I couldn’t get a signal. I figured the tower near my place of work was down, until […]
Trying to get Gnokii working with a Nokia 3310/3315? Works fine for one message, but then refuses to respond?
Mine asploded the other day, on a weekend no less, so it became a Matter of Urgency to buy a new one. Most of this stuff I thought of prior to rushing out and buying one, but I missed a couple of things, and I’d like a complete list for next time.
Water inputs
I have […]
In a word: don’t. Yeah, I know the default cases have the bowling shoe nature - especially the red ones - but when Nokia say they aren’t replaceable, they mean it.
Since some of you are going to plough on regardless, here are some of the Things I Found:
Easy does it; the case is soft plastic, […]
I though this paragraph in a BBC article on Japan’s Aging Population was interesting:
Utako Ohoe, 82, still lives in her own flat. She says she does not want to become a burden on anyone else.
“I want to continue living here by myself,” she explained. “I don’t want to become dependent on my daughter. I want […]
So, I put DD-WRT on my wireless router. It’s pretty nifty - maybe marginally more polished/focussed than OpenWRT, but it takes up a fair amount of my router’s four megabyte flash storage. It helped me get WPA bridged client mode on my Mitsubishi R100 wireless router working for the first time; but I also want […]
So, a couple of years ago I ran across Woot.Com. They’re the exact opposite of your usual DotCom online store - rather than many items available on a long-term basis, they sell one item a day, starting at midnight. The item remains on sale for one day until it sells out; at midnight they release […]