Archive for the ‘Fixes/Hacks’ Category
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Posted in Android, Fixes/Hacks, Opinion | No Comments »
Problem: I got the T-Mobile G1 (Android) because of the open-source engine behind it. I wanted a phone that would continue to be updated and include features wanted by lots of users, as opposed to those features only allowed by the manufacturer (e.g. Apple’s iPhone). I have been disappointed with T-Mobiles schedule of updates (lots of posts out there say that Cupcake was scheduled for January 2009) and tired of waiting for the Over the Air (OTA) update, so I decided to take the plunge and root my phone so that I could update it with whatever I wanted, whenever.
Quick Solution: Rooting your phone is actually much, much easier than I thought it would be. The two excellent guides that I used are Android and Me’s G1 rooting article and xda-developer’s G1 rooting article. Once you have rooted your phone, you can manually update to Cupcake (Android 1.5) without waiting for the OTA update.
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Posted in Android, Fixes/Hacks | No Comments »
Problem: after a few days, my Android phone transitions to the Home screen very slowly (sometimes taking >10 seconds). Other apps also seem to be slower.
Quick Answer: Try clearing some of the system memory.
Read the rest of this article »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Posted in Fixes/Hacks, Programming, Python, Web, WordPress | 1 Comment »
Problem: Recently I was writing an article where I posted some python code. Using WordPress, I was switching between HTML/Code view and “Visual” view. Every time that I switched, the WordPress editor would change some of my code, namely the quotes. I ended up with something that looked like this:
Solution: Not exactly sure, but it seems to have stopped.
Read the rest of this article »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Fixes/Hacks | 20 Comments »
This goes over my experience with GlowWorm.app causing a boot error in Mac OS 10.5.1 Leopard, and what I did that fixed it.
Symptoms
- You just installed GlowWorm.app
- Your computer will not boot (or not reach the login window, but the mouse appears) in normal mode
- You can boot into safe mode
- You can boot into single user mode
The quick answer: boot into “safe mode” and run the GlowWorm unistaller.app and disable firewall; reboot.
Read the rest of this article »
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Posted in Fixes/Hacks, WordPress | 1 Comment »
I recently made a WordPress blog for one of our clients. Everything was setup fine in a directory similar to www.thewebsite.com/blog/. Then I decided that I wanted the blog to have its own subdirectory, www.blog.thewebsite.com.
The quick answer: export your data and reinstall WordPress.
Read the rest of this article »
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Posted in Apple/Mac, Fixes/Hacks | 1 Comment »
This article covers an error with Adobe CS3 (Mac). The two symptoms that I know of are
- “The help system cannot be launched because the help folder is missing. Please install the help folder or reinstall Dreamweaver” error message OR
- nothing happens when you launch help from one of the apps (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc)
Read the rest of this article »
