When I updated my unlocked, unbranded HTC Desire to Android 2.2, I noticed that the “3G” icon had disappeared from the task bar, and I wasn’t able to access the internet at all from the handset. After a bit of hunting around in the menus, I found out how to fix this: From the Home [...]
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Bells at St Bartholomews, Lostwithiel
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Pilgrim’s Progress – a new album by Kula Shaker
Kula Shaker have recently released their fourth studio album, Pilgrim’s Progress. Their first two albums, ‘K’ and “Peasants Pigs and Astronauts” before their split at the eclipse in 1999 are amazing. Their 2007 comeback album “Strangefolk” is quirky, psychedelic, and wonderful. Upon hearing about the release of Pilgrim’s Progress, and after a quick first listen [...]
Life with the HTC Desire Android smartphone
It’s been well over a month since I bought my HTC Desire to replace my trustworthy Nokia E71. How am I getting on with it? Here’s my mini review of the handset and its Android operating system. It’s all about integration One thing that I have strived to do on the E71, and failed, was [...]
Unwell Brompton
My Brompton folding bike had to go to bicycle hospital today. Just 6 months in, the dynamo has started to engage every time I go over a bump, causing the dynamo head to try its best to detach itself and move onto the rubber of the tyre causing a loud screeching noise. The dynamo has [...]
Palazzo doors, Palermo
Palazzo doors, Palermo, originally uploaded by *Tom*. In a recent trip to Sicily, Tehm and I visited Palermo. Whilst wandering around the old churches, in Piazza Pretoria I spotted these doors on an old palazzo. They really captured my imagination, and in a way sum up Palermo for me. Peeling, faded, remnants of a past [...]
Google Mail is becoming Gmail in the UK – just don’t change if you use Android
As the title of this post says, UK Googlemail users can now change their email address from ..@googlemail.com to ..@gmail.com. If I remember correctly, there was a trademark issue with “Gmail” in the UK, but it looks like this has now been resolved. I decided to change my Googlemail account to use the .gmail domain [...]
Bye bye Symbian, hello Android
Last week I waved goodbye to my trusty Nokia E71. After watching the iPhone and Android communities evolve over the last 18 months, Symbian (the operating system that runs on the E71) has increasingly felt rather outdated. I am now the proud owner of an HTC Desire running on Google’s Android platform. People who know [...]
Skype Privacy Settings
I use Skype on one platform or another every day. I use it mainly on my Mac, and occasionally on my Nokia E71 via Skype for 3 (if out and about) or Skype’s own Symbian client (if wifi is near). On rare occasions I’ll use Fring, because it has the most fluid chat functions. It [...]
- Skype on the Nokia E71
- Skype Account Problems and Poor Customer Service
- 17″ Apple PowerBook screen problems
- Nokia E71 Review: Part Three – Software
- 3′s Internet Max add-on and the brick wall
