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May/12

Home Screen Constantly Loading On HTC

Filed Under Mobile Phone at 1st May 2012 0:01 by

I have been playing around with some of the development settings on the HTC One X and after selecting one of them after closing an app and going back to the home screen always shows a loading dialogue box and … Continue reading →

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Apr/12

HTC One X Stuck Update Screen

Filed Under Mobile Phone at 29th April 2012 10:02 by

Updating the HTC One X over the air to 1.28.401.9 which downloaded, rebooted and installed fine but after a second restart the phone was stuck on the update screen with no progress bar or anything. The only thing on the … Continue reading →

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Apr/12

FreePBX / Asterisk Failed to authenticate device

Filed Under PBX at 26th April 2012 0:01 by

Overview After updating FreePBX from 2.9.0.11 to 2.9.0.12 the inbound calls were not routing to my ringgroup / extensions. The calls were coming from Sipura 3102 and no settings were changed other than upgrading the framework. Investigation I Tailed the … Continue reading →

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Apr/12

HTC One X Mini Review

Filed Under Mobile Phone, Review at 20th April 2012 0:01 by

Overview It’s been almost 2 years with my HTC Desire so it was time to update my handset. The Desire was my first Android phone after owning an iPhone 3G. I have had the phone for just over a week … Continue reading →

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Apr/12

Decrypting Minecraft Password

Filed Under Games, Security, Software at 13th April 2012 0:01 by

If you want to retrieve a forgotten password in Minecraft you can use some simple Java to decrypt the “lastlogin” file if the username and password from the last session was saved. I do not condone the act of stealing … Continue reading →

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Apr/12

Changing E82 Footwell Light

Filed Under Car at 7th April 2012 14:09 by
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Changing the footwell lights are fairly trivial. The equipment needed are: Trimer remover or flat head screw driver Replacement bulb Cloth The OEM bulbs that were in my car were a 12v5W W5W. I replaced them with SMD LEDs from … Continue reading →

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Mar/12

BMW E82 Fitted Boot Matt (51 47 0 433 563)

Filed Under Car at 23rd March 2012 0:01 by

Just some pictures of the boot matt for BMW E82. There are few cut out points for various reasons but I chose to leave them in for now as they are not causing me any issues. Part number: 51 47 … Continue reading →

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Feb/12

Samsung EFC-1C9NBEC Book Cover Mini Review

Filed Under Review, Tablet at 26th February 2012 0:01 by

Overview After a horrible experience with a “compatible” cover for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 I decided to get the official one and be done with it. Case The book style cover protects front and back with a hinge which … Continue reading →