Last 10 posts from the blog

Add Voice Input to HTC Desire

Posted on June 14, 2010, 2:19 pm

For some bizarre reason HTC disabled voice input on the Desire, fortunately the open nature of Android means it's not that hard to install (once some very clever people have done the hard work :-) ) First install the Voice app from this site, http://nimbu.amo [...]

Google Maps Navigation now in Denmark

Posted on June 9, 2010, 2:17 pm

You can read the full story on Engadget or the Google page, but here's a few screen shots taken from my HTC Desire. If you don't have the Android navigation app installed [...]

Problems Updating the Android SDK with Eclipse

Posted on May 21, 2010, 10:42 am

I've recently had this error when trying to update the AVD within Eclipse. Failed to fetch URL http://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml, reason: Server redirected too many times (20) There's also a bug report with the same issue, http://cod [...]

Packages Removed from Fedora 13

Posted on April 16, 2010, 2:28 pm

After finally getting the Fedora 13 Beta release installed on Virtualbox (the Fedora 13 Alpha wouldn't install due to problems with X) I was disappointed to see that gnome-applet-netspeed is no longer available. Here's the list of removed packages but the good news is that gno [...]

Interference on my new LED TV

Posted on April 16, 2010, 9:31 am

I've just bought a new Samsung LED TV (actually my first flatscreen) but immediately noticed that some of the channels had a strange diagonal interference pattern across them. I get my TV via cable which runs through the VCR into the TV. After reading up about the problem I decided to try turning the VCR off and sure enough the interfere [...]

Does the iPad provide the best way to browse the web?

Posted on April 14, 2010, 8:59 pm

It's a quote that's been discussed over and over in the last few weeks since the launch of the iPad. Being a geek I understand that Flash is not good for the web and I'll be more than happy if there can be agreement on a video codec ( [...]

Wireless Network Scanner

Posted on March 30, 2010, 1:42 pm

I recently came across a free, open source wireless network scanner. It available from the MetaGeek website and is called inSSIDer. It's very simple to use, just select the wireless adapter and start scanning. The graph displays all the wireless networks with their signal strengths [...]

Using Shadowbox with Virtuemart

Posted on March 24, 2010, 2:55 pm

I forgot to mention in my previous post that when using Virtuemart and Shadowbox you end up with double popups if you enable the lightbox option in Virtuemart. It's easy to fix just following the instructions on the Virtuemart formum To summarise you just [...]

Looking at Joomla

Posted on March 24, 2010, 1:42 pm

I've never really looked at Joomla before, mainly because I had no need and am using WordPress as my blogging platform. However a work colleague recently asked me to help migrate a Jooma 1.0 site to Joomla 1.5. Their site was a small online shop using the Virtuemart shopping cart. In the end s [...]

Adding CSS Opacity Using JQuery

Posted on February 24, 2010, 1:51 pm

I recently read about using rgba values for the background CSS property, it's very easy to apply using JQuery, for example. $("#element").css("background","rgba(255,63,73,0.5)") The last value of 0.5 is just the opacity. Of course this doesn't work in IE so you need to use. $("#marker").css("filter","alpha(opacity=5 [...]