So i began hunting for a way to set this via Android. It appeared to be impossible! Everywhere i looked said “use an old phone” or “use an iphone” but i don’t have either. It does seem to be possible using the CyanogenMod rom but i didn’t fancy installing a whole new rom just to set my phone number.

Then i happened to find this page.

There is an app on the Android Market called “My Phone Number” that allows you to set your phone number with ease. It doesn’t work on all phones (might just be custom roms, so you’ll need to have rooted your phone, although i don’t think the app actually needs root itself.).

I installed the app, ran it and entered my phone number. And it worked!

You might wonder what the point of this is…. well there are a number of apps that rely on your phone number being set. To use apps like Pingchat you must have it, the Paypal app needs it to let you sign in using just a pin (it picks up the phone number automatically from the SIM). Without your phone number being set correctly these apps won’t work. It also means that the SMS application will recognise your text messages as sent by you, and display your contact picture if you have set one.

1 – Go to the market and download a terminal emulator (there are several free ones)

2 – Open the terminal emulator and type the following:

su
chmod 666 /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/files/*

Source

I decided that rather than creating a RAID and mirroring the disks i would set them up as individual disks and create a snapshot of the data each night. This might sound like the same result but much more work but actually this works much better for me than RAID as the main benefit (there are several others) is redundancy against hardware failure. The likelyhood of this happening is very small as disks now last a long time. The copy also helps if i accidentally delete a file (RAID would delete both copies…).

As soon as i had explored the web interface i jumped straight into the ‘hacking’ of the NAS. This is really simple using the ffp fun_plug script. I used the tutorial here which guides you step-by-step through the ‘hack’ and once i’d completed that i used another tutorial on the same site to install a number of additional packages including a web server (apache/php etc) and rsync (used to do the snapshot).

To do the snapshot i followed yet another tutorial which explains how to set it up (it includes a number of scripts you can copy/paste) and this has worked brilliantly for a few weeks now. The first time did take a very long time but now they are down to just a few minutes (depending on how much has changed on the primary drive).

I also set up a bittorent server to allow me to download torrents (there are legal ones you know!) without having tohave a full pc turned on. That tutorial includes a number of additional tweaks which come in handy.

I’ve had the NAS for about a month now and it was a very useful purchase. Well worth the money as it now means i don’t need to turn my desktop pc on as much and can stream music/video to my phone and laptop with ease.

I set this up on my machine and then realised that the script had to be running all the time. While it only uses a small amount of memory I decided to script a way to run the script remotely, and also to kill it when I had finished printing.

I have recently discovered Microsoft Powershell so decided to use it to create this script. There are two powershell scripts included in the zip below.

TogglePrinting.ps1

This is the main file. It checks for two files based within your Dropbox. If the ‘launch’ file is found, it launches the printing script. If the ‘kill’ file is found it kills all wscript processes. This could cause problems if you run other wscript processes for other reasons but I do not know if it is possible to identify the process that deals with the printing script.

scheduledtasks.ps1

This file creates a scheduled task that runs every 1/2 hour. It launches the TogglePrinting.ps1 powershell script.

Once you’ve set up the files in the necessary places all you need to do to enable printing is to create Print.LAUNCH or Print.KILL in the PrintQueue\Log folder and wait till your scheduled task runs again (on the hour and 1/2 hour). Once it’s launched you don’t need to re-launch it unless you have killed it (or rebooted your machine)

You can find the files here. Any comments/improvements are welcomed. Please let me know if you use the scripts too

I take no responsibility for any loss of data etc from using the scripts...
...but there shouldn't be any problems!

DestroyTwitter is a Twitter client built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It is completely free (although you can donate to support it) and is by far the best desktop client i have found for Twitter.

It supports theming, and there a large number of themes already available for download.

All the usual features are there, including:

• Reply to tweets
• ReTweet tweets
• See your replies, sent and direct messages
• Save tweets
• Search twitter

destroytwitter

It is a brilliant twitter client and i definitely recommend it to anyone who is hooked on twitter and needs to get their ‘fix’ all the time! (and anyone else who uses twitter!)

It has all of the standard features from a twitter client including:

• posting tweets via wifi, gprs, sms
• auto refresh
• send photos to twitpic (new beta version uploads to Mobypicture.com
• re-tweet (forward) of tweets

You can get the current version here and information on the beta is here here

It is (so far) the best free twitter client for my N95. There are other alternatives that are a bit more polished but they are not free, and twibble still seems to be the best. The beta version adds support for showing avatars and uses less memory (amongst other things).

Go check it out!

Support was from Maria Taylor who was very good too.

Click below to see photos:

Joshua Radin

Videos:

1. You need to visit TwitSig and put your Twitter name into the box, then click “Get Code”
2. Copy the code into a new Text Widget on your wordpress.com blog.
3. If you want to tweak the size of the image you need to change the image source address.
   • http://twitsig.com/yourname.jpg to http://twitsig.com/yourname-200×66.jpg (for example)
4. Save your changes and view your blog page. You should see your latest tweet appear in an image.

For more detailed instuctions (and a video guide) visit the blog here

This information was found on ipmart