Month: January 2012

What can you do with an old PDA?

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I still have a number of old devices which are for the most part doing nothing whatsoever. So I started to wonder what I could do with them. Especially my Dell Axim x51. It’s a nice device, but I really don’t use it for music anymore, nor do I really use it for anything. It seems a shame to just sell it off as I’m sure I’d regret it. I’d like it to have a reasonable use for it.

So I’m going to have a nose around and see if there’s a way to get some more life out of it.

A little keyboard

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I bought this little keyboard for my San Francisco Android phone. It works great with my iPhone 4, it pairs straight away and works like a dream. However, the San Francisco won’t see it at all and I can’t seem to find any software for it only. Maybe I’ll get it working tomorrow.

Trying out Artisteer

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I’ve been meaning to get a better template for this blog, but I don’t really want to get my head deep into WordPress theme making, so I thought I’d try out Artisteer, and it isn’t half bad you know. Really quite straightforward for making WordPress themes and it does more beside, although I’m not entire sure I’ll use much more of the functionality.

So if you see a new look here in the next week or two, you’ll know how I did it.

Making my G1 useful

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I remembered that I still have an old Android G1 knocking around. So I thought I’d upgrade it and see how useful it could be, perhaps using it with Tasker and PAW Server. It’s going to take a little while to get it all up and running though as this old G1 is on Android 1.5.

One thing that is quite interesting though is the ability to connect a G1 to an Arduino, with a little messing about of course. I might just give that a go.

More Karn

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I’ve been continuing to listen to Mick Karn’s albums over the last few days. The first two are really the ones I love the most, and his work after that was interesting but I didn’t enjoy it as much with one or two exceptions.

Having said that it’s been really good to listen to his work again and enjoy it together as a complete body of work. I think there’s a lot to be said for that, and this might become an annual occurrence.