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  • iPhone visual voicemail play button greyed out

    Issue Cannot listen to some of the iPhone visual voicemail messages as the “Play” button is greyed out.

  • Buying USB Flash drive with hardware write protection

    I have an old trusted no-brand 4GB USB Flash drive with a hardware write protection switch that is with untrusted PCs. While 4GB is not much, it is more than sufficient for this particular purpose. However, recently I started noticing that write speeds on this thing are getting more and more sluggish. A quick test…

  • Fix ‘Leverage browser caching’ Google Webmaster Tools warrning

    Google Webmaster Tools “Leverage browser caching” warning can be resolved by adding following to the .htaccess file on your (Apache) web server: ## Browser caching ##<IfModule mod_expires.c>ExpiresActive OnExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year”ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year”ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year”ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year”ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month”ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month”ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access 1 month”ExpiresByType…

  • Joomla 3 (Tiny MCE) images displayed without borders

    After upgrading to Joomla 3, images in articles on some of my websites started being displayed without borders even when I specified 1px border Tiny MCE editor’s image dialog. Note: code border-width: 1px; in Style field is added automatically by Tiny MCE after entering 1 in the Border field.

  • Use Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with gloves

    A while ago while introducing new Lumia handsets Nokia touted about its “Super Sensitive Touch” feature that allows to use a touch screen phone while wearing gloves (basically without directly touching the screen with your fingers). Many people don’t know this, but Samsung Galaxy devices also have option to increase screen sensitivity to make the screen work…

  • Fuel Consumption Log

    Fuel Consumption Log allows to monitor your vehicle’s fuel efficiency in a clean and easy to use app.  The app is designed to work in different regions and supports various distance / fuel / consumption units: Distance:• miles• kilometres Fuel:• litres• US gallons• Imperial (UK) gallons Fuel consumption:• mpg (Imperial – UK)• mpg (US)• l/100km•…

  • Android App – Telnet WOL

    Telnet WOL is specifically designed for DrayTek Vigor Routers that support WOL UP command which in turn sends a “Magic Packet” to the specified MAC address. Your Vigor router must have Telnet server enabled, and the device you are waking up must support WOL and if necessary have it enabled in BIOS. Normally, to wake…

  • Android App – Easy WOL

    Easy WOL provides simple and clean interface to send “Magic Packets” to any device on your network. If your Android device (where the app is installed) is connected to a WiFi on the same network as the device you are waking up, all you need to provide is device’s MAC address. The app will figure…

  • Android – getActionBar() returns null after upgrading to SDK 21

    I was working on a new app in Android Studio Beta with target SDK 20. It was all well and good, but after updating target SDK version to 21 (and appcompat-v7 to 21.0.0) the app started crashing on launch. Quick debugging revealed that the issue was cased by the line of code actionBar = getActionBar(); inside…

  • Android – hiding ActionBar icon and title during launch

    I was developing an app that had a tabbed interface (FragmentPagerAdapter) inside the main activity. Each tab was setting different ActionBar icon and title inside onTabSelected method. Something like this: @Overridepublic void onTabSelected(ActionBar.Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {   viewPager.setCurrentItem(tab.getPosition());   if (tab.getPosition() == 0){      actionBar.setTitle(“title1”);      actionBar.setIcon(R.drawable.icon1);   }   if (tab.getPosition() == 1) {     …

  • Facebook Android app pushes random notifications to remind about itself

    I’m not a  heavy Facebook user, but tend to check it on average few times a week. Facebook normally sends a push notification to your phone when somebody posts on your wall, comments on a photo you uploaded, or does something similar concerning yourself. This is all well and good and if I visit Facebook at…

  • How to replace S-Voice with Google Now on Samsung Galaxy devices

    When you long press the headphone button your Samsung Galaxy device, Samsung S-Voice launches. I find Google Now much more useful than Samsung S-Voice and it’s really easy to replace S-Voice with Google Now.