How I sync my phone

June 25, 2009
Ovi.com SyncML Profile

Nokia started the Ovi online suite and I saw a bit of light. It works very well, you can send the configuration automatically to your phone and is all nicely integrated. I use Ovi to update my notes, calendar and contacts directly from a web browser. The only problem left was automatisation.

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How to watermark you pictures for free

June 22, 2009
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Ever since I post pictures on the internet I searched for a way to watermark them. I am not paranoiac but I want others to respect my work. I used to use The GiMP but that was slow, so I searched and discovered Fast Stone Image Viewer. It’s fast, free for personal use and...

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Corel DRAW X3, X4 and X5 crashes on Open, Save As, Export. A.R.M. error.

June 22, 2009

Corel Draw is one of the most expensive pieces of junk I ever saw. I take that back Considering that still X3 was decent compared to 11 and 12 and also that X5 is pretty good considering Corel’s history and also most important because I’ve seen much more expensive piles of junk since I...

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Pidgin would not connect to Yahoo Messenger

June 22, 2009

I run pidgin on my windows machines because, I basically hate the bloat of the official Yahoo Messenger and because I also need google talk. For a few days I could not connect to Yahoo. Going to Manage Accounts (CTRL+A) -> your problem yahoo account -> Advanced and changing the server to cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com solved...

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Temperature graph on GLCD with EasyPic5

June 18, 2009
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This is a small project I did for school. I am using the easypic 5 board from mikroelectronica to display a linegraph of the temperature read every second by the DS1820 sensor and displays it on the KS0108 based GLCD. I am using the OneWire and GLCD libraries that come with the mikroC compiler....

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A good, freeware text editor for your nokia symbian phone

June 15, 2009

More and more phones have, these days, a decent text entry method – be it T9, qwerty keyboard or touch screen. Especially if you own a qwerty phone you might be interested in a good, native text editor application. I searched, and DEdit came up. It has a ton of features, but more important...

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This is how you can read your EXT2 and EXT3 partitions from Windows XP

June 14, 2009

My main workstation has a dual (sometimes tri) boot configuration: some flavour of linux (usually slackware) and some flavour of windows (usually xp). I have small partitions for the operating systems and one – two big ones for data. In the past, the data ones used to be FAT32 so they would be readable...

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Smart connect update

June 10, 2009

Remeber my article in which I was praising Smart Connect for filling the inexplicable gap in the access point configuration on newer E series nokia phones? Well I have a small update. It’s crap. From time to time my phone was unnable to connect to the internet, be it 3g or wi-fi untill I...

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The quest for mobile Youtube is over

June 10, 2009
Installing the latest Youtube mobile app version

Ever since Flash 3.0 came out and I managed to install it on my Nokia E61 phone I have been using one or other mobile youtube application. It’s a handy app to have when you want to kill some time. I started with emTube which was pretty good, but never got updated and for...

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