Comments for Random Nothings

Comment on Scrobble playcount from ipod to last.fm without itunes by Anderson

Anderson — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:56:52 +0000

seems that it doesn’t work with win 7. [2]

Comment on Sync ipod (and scrobble to last.fm) with Winamp by Vestu

Vestu — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:57:17 +0000

Won’t scrobble unicode songs and never will (according to the devs) so, not useful for me at least. Half of my songs have chinese, korean and japanese names. Only option for us j-freaks is to use itunes with its unstable and crappy ipod scrobbling feature…

Comment on Change default google search in firefox by ivanmacx

ivanmacx — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:10:54 +0000

Thanks for the tip. In case it helps anyone else, on Ubuntu Jaunty I found the google.xml file in:

/usr/lib/firefox-addons/searchplugins

Comment on Change Java Permissions on a hacked S60v3 phone by Wes

Wes — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 04:49:12 +0000

I have no “EFSrv.dll” file in my bin folder on the phone….. N95.

Any ideas?

Comment on Change default google search in firefox by Jordan McClements

Jordan McClements — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:26:08 +0000

Thanks for that one!

Comment on Change default google search in firefox by hardnrg

hardnrg — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:09:38 +0000

Thanks very much for this fix/tip. I highlight product names on pages, then right click them, Google Search them, and then click Products on the resulting UK page to get a BRITISH product search in Pounds, instead of a bloody American one!

This fix sorts me out. Worked for me in 3.5.3 by changing the line as detailed (not the second one). Initially, it didn’t take effect, but I hadn’t closed the DownThemAll window (counts as a Firefox window). Upon closing the DTA window and starting Firefox, the fix took effect and I was back to UK products searches!

Comment on Sync a Nokia phone with Lightning/Google Calendar by G

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:34:05 +0000

Need to substitute backward slashes with forward slashes.
So for instance:
Once lightning has been installed in thunderbird, go to windows explorer and copy the path to the *.ics calendar.
Go back to thunderbird and go Calendar>new calendar>on the network, and paste in the location and then substitute forward slashes for the backward ones.
Then, before the path name you need to put file:/// for instance if your calendar was in My Documents, your location path would look like this(without the quotation remarks):
“file:///F:/My Documents/mycal.ics”
Make sure that this is actually the path to your file and that your calendar is actually called mycal.ics. Otherwise of course the path and name would have be adjusted.

Comment on Scrobble playcount from ipod to last.fm without itunes by Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:44:24 +0000

Thanks for the link! I’ll have to try it, Last.Fm doesn’t seeme to want to scrobble my iPod anymore

Comment on Sync a Nokia phone with Lightning/Google Calendar by Alf

Alf — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:49:29 +0000

Hi MP,
What do you mean by “tell Lighning to use…”?
Export the .ics? (which one of my three calendars in Lighning? I use three, one private, and two business ones) or import the .ics? (what if I add a meeting on the nokia ‘offline’?).
I was not even aware that there was a Windows Calendar existing…

Would it work with contact sync as well? Thunderbird is able to export LDIF, windows contacts can read LDIF but what will be synced by Nokia PC Suite?

If the above steps are do-able manually, is there not a script out there to do all the work? (I am not a programmer though).

BTW: I am using newest Thunderbird/Lighing, Nokia N95 and PC Suite (all newest versions and firmwares).

Many thanks!

Comment on Scrobble playcount from ipod to last.fm without itunes by Ninamina

Ninamina — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:33:47 +0000

thanx! really cool.
We won’t be disappointed of lost scrobbles. And don’t need to open iTunes anymore!!