Thursday, July 6, 2017

What a simple Nokia 1616 featurephone can do

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I have a very sturdy Nokia 1616 featurephone that I got as a present from a sister. The phone has an FM radio, a flashlight, a 3.5mm headp...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

How to get Skype on the Web to work in Firefox in old Android

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As you may already know, Microsoft ceased Skype app support below Android 4.0.3. This covers Android 3.0 and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Mayb...

A primer on whitelisting subdomains in Firefox NoScript

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In Firefox or GNU IceCat, go to about:config, look for the extensions.nsa.policy settings string. Search for nsa.po to get the correct ...

The basics of VIM find and replace

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The basics of VIM find and replace work like this (for one line) — :s / searchable / replaceable /optional_commands The slashes separate...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Web brands, e-mail, and their centerpiece services

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As an anonymouse reply to a thread For many things, e-mail is now one of those infrastructure/utility things that is now one of many that ...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

The Google Plus app won't work in Android 2.3 any longer. Use Firefox.

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This came up as an issue for me recently, and I wrote this as a reply to another person who wasn't able to access Google+ content in the...
Friday, February 24, 2017

A small ARM primer

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Android devices' CPUs are by and large ARM microprocessors, as these were chosen for their low-power features. The ARM family consists...