I don’t know much about audio, and my hearing has been damaged by too many noisy nightclubs in my twenties but I do listen to a lot of podcasts using earphones. In the past I preferred to use wired Apple earpods and I still use them. I bought Urban 1 […]
Android
Android: auto connect to Bluetooth speakers
I have two bluetooth speakers at home. One is a Jawbone Jambox and also a Creative D100. The Jambox speaker looks for a bluetooth device when I switch it on that makes connecting a synch but the D100 does not. That necessitates clicking the Bluetooth Android notification and tapping the […]
Apple
Mac OS X Leopard and Nokia N73 Bluetooth Problems
When I got my new Macbook a few weeks back I thought I could use the Bluetooth functions to browse and copy files from my Nokia N73. It worked just fine on my previous Macbook, an old 2 year old machine destroyed by a cup of tea, so I wasn’t […]
Linux
Linux to Symbian File Transfer – HOWTO
I finally got to see my phone’s filesystem from Linux this morning! I used p3nfs to connect my Nokia 7650 and Red Hat 9 Linux box. Here’s how. Login to your Linux box as root. Make sure you have the following rpms installed: bluez-libs-devel, bluez-libs, bluez-utils. They’re available from your […]