Lifehacker Pack for Android

Lifehacker Pack for Android is a useful source of useful Android apps in the great AppBrain market (allows you to browse and select apps in a PC web browser and have them installed on your phone when you like).

FreeCRM import

An even more useful reminder than my earlier one: the fields that FreeCRM uses to import (e.g.) the company for a contact are the text identifiers set by the user, not the internal database IDs. Don’t chose Company Name (creates new) or Company System Id record...

Test

Wordbooker was doubling or tripling things. I hope it has stopped.

Crashplan on Qnap

So, to start with, it won’t work on my TS-219 as it is an Arm not an Intel-based device. I now have a TS-239 Pro II for exactly this reason. The instructions worked well. Links and my notes below: General instructions Installing QPKGs is a question of...

Rooting and custom ROM on an HTC Desire

Relatively simple, but there are some potentially confusing steps. Well worth doing, just to be able to install a sensible number of apps (I didn’t get beyond about 20 before starting to run out of disk space). First you need a GoldCard SD card if you have an...
Samsung NC10 brightness issues

Samsung NC10 brightness issues

I love my little NC10, especially in my garden office. Sensibly, after inactivity (roughly equating to not touching a key for a while) it auto dims the screen brightness to only just visible. Normally, I can get the brightness back on by flicking the mouse or pressing...