Your cell phone can be configured with up to three emergency numbers that work for your area. 911 is now pretty common in the US but it was not always so. There still may be areas that don’t use 911 but...
This is a rescue app that can help a computer that turns on and is obviously working but the customer says nothing comes up on the screen. They quite often won’t admit what was done but the monitor says Freq Out...
It’s JUST Notepad right? I mean your normal every-day geek uses it all the time. There’s nothing new under the sun there? OK, not everyone knows that hitting F5 will insert the date, but I’d bet MOST medium to high level...
I’m home sick today. So here’s a quick post with a tool that I wrote to speed up my access to BBC7’s spoken word/audio books shows. RamRod: BBC7 Flavour As many of you know, I often spend hours listening to England’s...
Rob Miller wrote an excellent article on the use of wp_error in WordPress plugins… http://robm.me.uk/2006/06/11/wp_error/ I’d suggest suggest that every WordPress hacker/plugin author, that is not familiar with this realtively unknown bit of wordpress lore, should go and read it! If...
One of the major problems I have with my vx5200 phone is that it takes hundreds of pictures of the inside of my pocket… Right now I only have one solution for this: Lock the keypad. However, I was expecting it...
I’ve updated my earlier post about “How to find bad JPEG files in a directory – via Delphi (Source Code)“. It now includes a routine to do extra corruption checking if the image is a JPEG. The problem is that I...
Verizon tries to force you to only play WMA files on your phone. But because they’ve left their security menu open, you can reenable mp3 files. Here’s how: 1. First Press Menu 2. Look at the menu if you want, but...
This one is pretty straight forward but is the key to doing a lot of stuff that Verizon has disabled by default for their phones… 1. First Press Menu 2. Look at the menu if you want, but we’re gonna chose...
I posted this over on the WP-Hackers list, but maybe I can get some help from my own readers… (Thanks btw It’s nice to see that, after only three short months, I already have a number of regular readers. I hope...