Seriously trivial thoughts
To get copy-protected WMAs (Rhapsody, Napster, etc.) working after upgrading your firmware, you must re-format the SDHC card. Obviously, you'll need to back up the card before doing this. You must use the formating function on the phone. This is found in the Tools folder > Utilities > Memory. Then choose Options > Format Memory …
Just use the Nokia phone updater software. The paged memory and new podcast features rock!
Why are solid state drives SO expensive? Like $1300 for the 64GB SSD add-on for the Apple Air. I can easily get an 8GB SDHC card for $33 right now. Why don't manufacturers make an adapter in a 1.8 inch hard drive form factor that holds X number of SDHC cards? Using some type of …
I've been cleaning out some old electronics including some hard drives, getting ready for a city electronic waste day. Anyways, one of the drives is an 8GB drive! What's funny is I should be getting an 8GB Micro SDHC card any day now for my phone. How amazing is that? I estimate the drive is …
Just got this Panasonic KX-TG5776 phone for home and it just rocks. It’s one of those phone systems where only the base is actually plugged into the phone line and the other phones connect to the base. The main benefit is that you can have a phone anywhere there is a electrical outlet–you don’t need …
I had previously blogged that I needed to use the Microsoft XP drivers to solve Bluetooth connection issues I was having when I connected/disconnected remotely to my PC via RDP. Well, after I upgraded to v20 on my phone, I found that I could no longer authenticate the phone from my PC using Bluetooth. So, …
My 2008 Predictions Housing will not recover in 2008. Gasoline will be $4/gallon and stay there. Oil will stay over $100 barrel for most of the year. The market will take a huge hit, but bounce back by year end. Republicans will somehow hang onto White House. Lakers will make it the conference finals. Foreclosures …
Well, looks like I screwed myself a little by pretending to be european and upgrading my N95's firmware. It seems that Rhapsody subscription music will no longer play on the N95 due to licensing problems. Bummer. Well, I'll just have to live with MP3s until the American firmware upgrade becomes available. There is no way …
Well I just got tired of waiting for official US v20 firmware for my Nokia N95, so I hacked the product code from 0548763 to 0536062 (“EURO1 – Plum”) and was able to upgrade using the normal Nokia software upgrade application. The hack is pretty easy and you basically just write over the product code. …
