(These notes are mostly for my own benefit).
Android is moving away from USB Mass Storage. You will no longer be able to plug in a USB cable and have your Android show up as a USB disk. There are some good technical reasons for this, but it is a pain if you …
I’m in love with my keyboard! The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 is a dream to type on. Large, well spaced keys, split keyboard, and a whole host of extra media buttons.
There’s only one tiny problem. Two of the buttons don’t work in Linux – specifically, the keyboard scroll buttons. This is …
Hurrah! Spotify have released a native Linux player which works with free accounts!
These notes show (which are mostly for my benefit) show you how to install it and configure your multimedia keyboard so the play/pause key controls the music on Spotify.
Download Spotify for Linux. It’s available in 32bit or 64bit.
Double click on the .deb …
This is a question I’ve posed in the Ubuntu forums, but I haven’t found the answer yet.
I’ve got a great little IP security camera – the Y-Cam. It’s Internet accessible, so it can email me photos of any suspicious behaviour. It will also stream video and audio to a number of devices – …
Two quick patches which should be in the next version of Calibre PHP.
Adding File Size
This shows the sizes of the eBook files.
Screenshot shows a demonstration using the free “Hacking The BBC” eBook.
— /data/web/calibre_php_server-V0.2.7/db.php 2011-11-20 10:19:00.000000000 +0000
+++ db.php 2011-11-20 10:24:16.000000000 +0000
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@
}
// Formats
- $data = $this->db->query(sprintf(‘SELECT format,name
+ $data = $this->db->query(sprintf(‘SELECT format,name,uncompressed_size
FROM …
(These are mostly notes to myself!)
I love Calibre, it’s the perfect eBook management tool. It comes with a built in WWW server so you can easily access your library on the go. The only problem is that this really only works if you have a single machine dedicated to Calibre. For various …
Every so often I find a device which – inexplicably – doesn’t include Linux support.
I’ve been very impressed with how well Ubuntu runs on the Lenovo ThinkPad X200. Everything worked out of the box – with the exception of the fingerprint reader (AuthenTec AES2810).
Now, I know that fingerprint readers can easily be defeated by …
For the last few weeks I’ve been unable to run Spotify in Linux using WINE. I was continually getting a crash with this error message:
Unhandled page fault on read access to 0×00000068 at address 0x7bc34e57
After lots of fruitless digging around, I discovered that the issue is with the Facebook integration!
The fix is simple. …
Yes, yes, yes, the title is linkbait – but it’s not inaccurate. Let me explain….
I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Linux user. All my machines run some variant of Linux, usually Ubuntu. So, when a new client asked me to to use Windows XP I nearly quit on the spot! But, after a …
I’ve been looking for a way to manage my backups. Burning DVDs and then leaving them around the house doesn’t strike me as a sensible way to preserve my data any more. I just want a simple way to thrust my files onto the cloud with the minimum of fuss.
The two big …
I gave a quick talk at BarCamp Brigton about how to hack the Amazon Kindle 3G. These hacks come in two flavours – easy and very easy.
Very Easy – Pictures
Wouldn’t it be great to view pictures on your Kindle? Well? OK – pictures, perhaps not so much – but comics? Yes please!
For best results, …
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