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Things to love (mostly) about your Android phone – part 1

July 28, 2010

It’s been less than a week since I’ve been playing with my Android phone (the G1) and to recap briefly, I purchased it already rooted (an absolute must for any gagdet lover and tinkerer). It’s not a trivial undertaking, but looks harder than it really is. Since getting it, I’ve unlocked my G1, performed a [...]

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Unlocking the Tmobile G1 phone

July 26, 2010

TL;DR – Pay less than $20 to have an unlock code for your phone from Unlocking.com! So, I got an Android phone, specifically, the T-Mobile G1. Yes, it’s no longer officially supported by T-Mobile and second, I’m with AT & T! However, the person I purchased the device from had done the hardwork in rooting [...]

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Navigating Habari, the content management system – Part 1

July 20, 2010

It’s been over eight months since I migrated my blog (Jane Talks Tech!) from WordPress to Habari. It wasn’t done lightly and I did my due diligence by creating a test installation of Habari, making sure the importer worked, ironing out issues (credit entirely due to the devs in the Habari IRC channel) and finally [...]

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Overzealous malware hunter: Norton Internet Security 2010

June 27, 2010

I‘m a happy user of Norton Internet Security 2010 (referrred to as NIS 2010 henceforth). I have never been infected with any nasties primarily due to a combo of taking common-sense precautions (like not downloading “free ringtones”, “sexy videos” or any “codecs” to view said sexy videos), being aware of my internet surroundings and having [...]

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Providing PC support remotely to family and friends

June 24, 2010

I take the role of “computer-problem-fixer” in my family very seriously. I love tinkering and troubleshooting so helping out doesn’t feel like a burden to me. So, I thought I’d do a post on how I’m able to assist my family members and friends from afar. One of the things I’ll tell you right away [...]

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Habari-powered blogging: Tweaking your theme

June 17, 2010

First thing: I’m *not* a coder, but I’ve got the next best thing: search engines like Bing, Google and DuckDuckGo on my side. For every theme I’ve used on the blogging software running my blogs (janetalkstech.com and fadingwhispers.org/home), I’ve ended up editing the theme’s files to include some small features I admired in previously used [...]

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Prepping for Southeast LinuxFest 2010

June 10, 2010

Update: Photos from this year’s SouthEast LinuxFest are up on my photography site, my Flickr page (Licensing on Flickr is cc-by-nd-sa) and Facebook page. Tag away! It’s that time of the year again. The Southeast LinuxFest of 2009 was my first Linux Conference and I enjoyed the experience so I decided to repeat it. Here’s [...]

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