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Piggybacking an Android Wi-Fi device off your Windows PC’s internet connection

March 16, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

One of the disadvantages of my Google/Asus Nexus 7 is that it needs a Wi-Fi connection to use. Most of the time this is not a problem since I also have a Huawei mobile WiFi hub from T-Mobile and this [...]

Using a variant of Debian’s Iceweasel that keeps pace with Firefox

February 5, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

Left to its own devices, Debian will leave you with an ever ageing re-branded version of Firefox that was installed at the same time as the rest of the operating system. From what I have found, the main cause of [...]

Adding Quicktime movie support to Firefox running on Linux

January 24, 2013 Leave a response Shortlink

For whatever reason, my installation of Ubuntu GNOME Remix 12.10, didn’t have Quicktime support added to Firefox by default. To make a website work near enough as it was intended, this needed to be remedied. The solution was to issue [...]

Getting rid of a Dropbox error message on a Linux-powered PC

September 24, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

One of my PC’s has ended up becoming a testing ground for a number of Linux distributions. The list has included openSUSE, Fedora, Arch and LMDE with Sabayon being the latest incumbent. From Arch onwards in that list though, a [...]

Do we need dongles anymore?

March 12, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

Recent exposure to both the HTC Wildfire S and the HTC Desire S has me wondering if we need mobile broadband dongles anymore. The reason for my asking this is that both Android devices can act as mobile wi-fi hubs [...]

Changing to web fonts

February 12, 2012 Leave a response Shortlink

While you can add Windows fonts to Linux installations, I have found that their display can be flaky to say the least. Linux Mint and Ubuntu display them as sharp as I’d like but I have struggled to get the [...]

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