Jamie's Rants

rant verb (ranted, ranting) 1 intrans to talk in a loud, angry, pompous way. 2 tr & intr to declaim in a loud, pompous, self-important way. noun 1 loud, pompous, empty speech. 2 an angry tirade. ranter noun someone, especially a preacher, who rants. ranting noun, adj. rantingly adverb. ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from Dutch ranten to rave.

Thursday, October 01, 2015

Camera Repair Quote from Sendean Cameras

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Since Yelp appear to hide bad reviews I thought I'd also post my review of Sendean here. I dropped off a camera at Sendean for a re...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Flickr Auto-Uploader for Windows Phone

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Flickr Auto-Uploader for Windows Phone will automatically upload pictures and videos from your Windows Phone device to Flickr. You can cho...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Flickr authorisation URL doesn't work on certain browser components

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Writing a Flickr app for Windows Phone I was confused as to why the authorisation URL was forwarding the user to http://m.flickr.com inste...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Manually Fixing Multiple Screens with Different DPIs in Linux

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Step 1: Set the system wide DPI to a comfortable level for your highest resolution screen, using X Resources . There is a DPI calculator ...
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Monday, September 29, 2014

How not to Transfer Your Domains Between Registrars

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UPDATE IV - Dec 2018 - Four years on from my original debacle I've given Gandi another shot. The main reason being that I've bought...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Recommended Apps for Windows Phone 8

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True Calendar 8 The native WP8 calendar sucks, it defaults to viewing one day, but doesn't fit it onto one screen, it doesn't hav...
Saturday, January 04, 2014

Script to set Firefox zoom/dpi/devPixelsPerPx on the command line

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#!/bin/bash PREF=~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default*/prefs.js BAK="$PREF.bak" SETTING="layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" CURR=$(gr...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Sexism at theregister.co.uk

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I think it's fair to say that The Register has always been the red top of tech publishing, I haven't minded in the past, I'm ...
Monday, September 30, 2013

(Almost) Passive Cooling an Acer Aspire Revo R3600 Intel Atom 330

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After I removed the fan of my Revo R3600 in order to change the hard drive it became incredibly noisy, sounding a bit like a motorbike. Gi...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

The Truth About Film and Airport X-Ray Machines

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When I went to Africa recently on honeymoon , I took with me my new bride, and a load of film . I was a bit concerned about the effects of ...
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