Avoid the OTA queue and manually download and install Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread from the official site now! Download the OTA upgrade from the official site (43.6MB) Save the file at the root of your SD card as update.zip Turn off your phone Hold down the volume down button and turn on your phone Use the volume down button to scroll to Recovery then press the power button When you see the exclamation icon hold the [...]

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been experiencing problems with my new Samsung P2450H monitor whereby, when plugged into my laptop (D-SUB) and viewing pages with dark or gradient backgrounds, the monitor would flicker horizontal lines across the screen. Re-calibrating and adjusting the refresh rate didn’t help at all. I was happy enough to ignore it at first until, finally, it became too much. After hunting around for a solution, I found this page [...]

Make your Photoshop and Illustrator files tidier and easier to edit by using place instead of paste. This is a short introduction covering the basics along with some basic uses. GET GOING…

Note: this has been tested to work on the following versions of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) One of the most fragile and fragmented services I’ve had to configure on Ubuntu is a mail server. No matter which of the many guides I follow, each time I do it there’s always something not working. This one is mostly for [...]

If you’re like many of the numerous people having issues with the 3D Gallery application on Android becoming very slow with the recent-ish upgrade to Android 2.2 then, I’m sorry to say, there’s not much else you can do other than factory-reset your phone (it’s bold so you don’t have to read the rest of this unnecessarily long post…). I tried all the solutions I could find. From clearing the phone’s cache, force-reinstalling the application [...]

If you felt enough pity for me you may have taken a look at my previous attempt at a blog for the PHP framework I was writing. After going round in so many circles on that project I gave up updating the blog. So, instead, I’ve decided to create this blog which will aim to be more broadly focused on web development. My main reasons for this blog are 1) to use as a resource [...]