And so I got the LG Optimus One for a family member and transferred over his contacts easily thanks to Mac OS X Address Book’s built-in ability to synchronize with Google Contacts. The Google Android platform certainly has some excellent features not found in the iPhone ‘s iOS – but more of that in another (future) post. The only problem was that the Optimus One could not seem to identify a caller if his contact entry did not have the…
When I left for my holidays in China, I made sure to disable 3G on my iPhone 3GS to avoid getting bill shock. Once back in Singapore though, I couldn’t seem to get the iPhone to connect to the cellular network with 3G enabled. It kept saying “No Service”! This is how I solved it 1. Disable 3G in Settings/General/Network 2. Power off the iPhone by holding the top lock button down and then sliding to power off. Leave the…
HomePlug devices have been around for almost a decade now but I have never even considered them before. After all, with Wifi adaptors being built into just about every computing device nowadays, why purchase additional adaptors just to get wired networking running? But as it turns out, I found a real use for these and you just might too. I picked up a pair of Aztech HomePlug HL110EP at the recent SITEX at a special price of S$49 each. Unlike…
Thanks to the excellent tutorials over at Slicehost, I got an idea of some the things you need to do to secure your brand new virtual private server (VPS) straight away. To me, the main takeaways with regard to security would be: 1. create a privileged user with Sudo access 2. disable the root account login 3. use strong passwords e.g. a combination of letters in upper and lower case, numbers and other characters 4. setup iptables firewalls I had…
It really irks me that even the latest-and-greatest Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium can’t get some simple functions right. Case in point: my amazing stubborn un-removable printers! Yep, there are 3 instances of FX DocuPrint here because the first two (which no longer work as the networked printer has since gone local) won’t disappear no matter how many times I remove them as Administrator! Most people suggest using Print Management in the Microsoft Management Console; alas, the former isn’t even…
There are quite a number of tutorials available on backing up to Amazon S3, which is popular due to its redundancy and low cost (15cents per gigabyte). I prefer Rackspace Cloud Files though due to its lower upload fees (8cents vs 10cents per gigabyte of bandwidth). We will use duplicity to create the backups because it is bandwidth efficient and also allows us to encrypt our backups. We will also be setting up the cloudcity script to make it easier…