On the 1st of June 2021, Google Photos stopped offering free storage. Google Photos is a fantastic service, but at the rate I take photos I knew I’d fill the remaining gigabytes of storage in a matter of months, so I stopped uploading photos from my phone. I don’t regard […]
reviews
Long term review: Sony Ericsson W810i phone
A year ago I pondered buying a Sony Ericsson K750i but eventually bought it’s big brother, the Sony Ericsson W810i instead. At the time I was impressed, especially with the panorama function of the camera, but I’ve grown to loath this piece of technology in the year since I bought […]
Donncha
Roaming in America
One of the problems with traveling is the cost of calling home. I enabled roaming on Meteor, but it’s a bit pricey at €1.39/minute or €0.32/sms. I checked roam4free as well but that appears to be more expensive yet at €2.50/min. Enter Skype where I can buy credits and call […]
Web
My Meteor – why don't you work in Firefox?
There’s only 3 mobile phone companies in Ireland, Vodafone, O2 and Meteor. I’ve been a customer of each and am currently with Meteor. That might change however as their newly redesigned meteor.ie website doesn’t work properly in Firefox. They offer 300 free texts from their site but when one hits […]
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 […]
General
I solved the problem with rece …
I solved the problem with receiving email on my 7650. Mail me if you want the address, note that a procmail script limiting the size of emails will be put in place!