Category — My Thoughts
Where Do You Get Your Information?
As a member of the IET I was recently asked to complete a survey around how I conduct research and access information. I’d be very surprised if the survey reveals anything surprising, but I was surprised enough at one of my answers to consider elaborating on it here.
I am unable to remember the exact wording of the question and the IET won’t allow me to attempt the survey again so you’ll have to survive with an approximation to the question:
What sources do you use to acquire information and what aspects do you like about each source?
Things Touch
Things Touch is a task manager for the iPhone and iPod touch from the team over at Culture Code. It is the mobile sibling of Things, the desktop task manager for OS X. I’ve been using Things Touch for a couple of weeks now and on the whole the application is well thought out and easy to use. There are a couple of areas where more work is needed, and it is good to see that most of these are promised in future updates.
Reset the Nokia e61
Something is wrong when you take your phone out of your pocket to be greeted with a “Kernel Error”. Rebooting the phone seemed to get it stuck in an endless boot cycle and when removing the memory card and battery didn’t fix the problem, I feared the worst.
Anyway the following two key combinations solved the problem. Be warned though that you will loose all your data.
- Switch off the phone then press and hold Green, * and 3 whilst turning the phone on
- *#7370# (*#RES0#)
I’m not sure which one solved the problem, but after trying both, the phone is now back up and running again.
Serve Music Direct to iTunes
I found this simple tutorial on how to get a Linux server to serve your music collection direct into iTunes. It works exactly as it should. You open up iTunes and your music just appears.