Russell England (techy): June 2010

Saturday, 26 June 2010

I need a 3G MiFi

MiFi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
MiFi is a line of compact wireless routers produced by Novatel Wireless that act as mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. By backconnecting to a cellular data network and frontconnecting to local Wi-Fi devices (up to 10m/30ft distance), a compact wireless router creates a local "cloud" of shared high-speed Interne...

Friday, 25 June 2010

Watch how you hold your new iPhone... Or try duct tape...

Watch how you hold your new iPhone... Or try duct tape...

Steve Jobs solves iPhone 4 reception problems: 'don't hold it that way' | Technology | guardian.co.u
www.guardian.co.uk
Antenna design on new iPhone is acknowledged as source of poor connectivity - but Apple says problem is inevitable and advises different grip. Or you could try duct tape...

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Export your Facebook contacts

There isn't an option in Facebook to export your contacts...

But you can import them into Yahoo and export to a CSV for importing into your favourite email program - woohoo!

Sign in/Create a Yahoo account
Go to http://address.yahoo.com/
Click the Facebook icon and the import will go ahead.
Export your contacts to a file to import into your email program
Done

Tuesday, 1 June 2010

I rediscovered my Nokia video cable, got all excited and tried to play an avi through my mobile... d'oh! All was not lost though, it has to be mpeg4 format, woohoo! - WinFF works with Ubuntu (and Windows) and will convert video files to mobile phone and iPhone formats, simplez...

I rediscovered my Nokia video cable, got all excited and tried to play an avi through my mobile... d'oh! All was not lost though, it has to be mpeg4 format, woohoo! - WinFF works with Ubuntu (and Windows) and will convert video files to mobile phone and iPhone formats, simplez...

WinFF - Free Video Converter
www.winff.org
Convert your videos quickly, easily, and all at once with WinFF and FFmpeg

Favicon for your blog

The favicon is the little graphic that you see against bookmarks or in the tabs in your browser.

Iconj will create an icon for you from a photo which you can then upload to your website - or you can pick your own.

http://www.iconj.com/

Or for a blog, sign up with Iconj (Its a free account) then copy the code, edit your template and paste the code in between the <head> elements.