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Re: Nokia Sports Tracker Widget

Tim (admin) — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:40:53 -0000

Yeah, only just noticed it's not working. Haven't checked for updates but wouldn't be surprised if it's been forgotten about. Still, I checked for an update on the Sports Tracker app itself and I see they've now got actual maps on the tracking in the phone app. Looks like it can use preloaded maps from Nokia Maps too so saves on bandwidth. Handy as sometimes I like to know where I am and saves having to fire up Nokia or Google Maps to do so.

Still think Sports Tracker is about the best location/GPS app on a mobile.

Re: Nokia Sports Tracker Widget

Sergei Smirnov — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:44:08 -0000

Widget doesn't work. Nokia suckes as usual. I wish they spied on Nike+.

Re: Nikonians goes private

Aswozzles — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:03:36 -0000

Yeah, they told me to pay up else they would freeze my account .. I didn't .. they did!!

Re: Lightbox and Coppermine plugins

Tim (admin) — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:58:42 -0000

I thought I replied already but can't see my reply, so I'll try again...

Unfortunately I'm not really supporting this any more as I no longer use Coppermine and Wordpress has also moved on a bit since then so I don't know if it works with latest versions. I never did get it to work with albums, but have to admit I didn't try that much. Anyway the source is here for anyone to modify. After all I just modified the existing Coppermine Plugin.

I haven't checked to see if that plugin has been updated and if maybe lightbox has been integrated into the original. Maybe it has, or maybe there's another plugin that does similar.

Re: Lightbox and Coppermine plugins

Corne — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:12:18 -0000

Do you still give support for this?

I was wondering if you ever got it to work with whole albums and Lightbox?

One picture opens in lightbox, so you got that correct..

But as you said here above, it doesn't work when you link a whole album..

Re: Exhibit Engine

Ryan Lindsey — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:56:42 -0000

I don't think the gallery looks cheesy, although this is the default configuration, and it's designed to be very configurable. I run EE myself, although mine looks the same, because I haven't played around with PHP and styles much.

I've played around with Gallery2, and ZenPhoto, after first using EE, because I figured the others might be easier to customize, but after seeing all of the features that were lost after moving, I went back to EE.

It's a little tricker to install, but looks a lot more professional compared to the others. It's also faster in my experience.

Re: Sim free 3G phone + Orange = no 3G

Tim (admin) — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:31:31 -0000

To make matters worse I also discovered PAYG is not really an option as it limits the amount of roaming you can do around the world which I didn't realise. For example Orange PAYG is not supported in Canada, but contract is (at least according to Orange's web site).

Re: Sony PS2 EyeToy drivers for Windows

Tim — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:35:10 -0000

I just came across this link, and I noticed the above URL was dead. However, I was able to find another website that is still valid that has direct links to downloads, and the guide is relatively straight forward

http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/200...

I followed the instructions, and after 10mins, I had a working Webcam for my PC, using my PS2 Eye Toy

Good luck!

Re: Sim free 3G phone + Orange = no 3G

Nige Marriott — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:22:57 -0000

I've got exactly the same problem - but it is complicated by the fact that it is a business contract and so I cann't get a pay as you go and transfer the number.

I have tried every thing I can think of but with no progress. Orange are the most inflexable unhelpful customer unfriendly organisation I have every had the misfortune to deal with. Great Customer Service???
I don't bloody think so!!!!

Re: Coppermine upload problems on Fedora Core

Keith — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:57:02 -0000

(don't expect much from my website please!)

After reading your post , ( I was tempted to try coppermine gallery ) I've decided against trying to use that software, Gallery2 has been great in some respects,

Have had a little trouble finding the proper solution for the ffmpeg feature though,

I consider myself -- extremely "noobish" in website managment and programing, I appreciate your opinion and thought I'd drop a comment to say " thanks "

I'm Using Fedora 7 ( WaaaY better ( functionally speaking ) than Suse, )

Re: Sony PS2 EyeToy drivers for Windows

Liam — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:33:57 -0000

the download file requires you to be regestered to the download site, other than that, you should have no problem getting them untill it turns out that the file link is broken, and renders you being screwed >.

Re: MUSE Wembley Arena clip on a Nokia N80

Tim (admin) — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:37:47 -0000

Lol, yeah. Though it might just be because I changed to another account on YouTube so the old one got deleted.

Posted some of the stadium gig the other week on my new account.

Re: MUSE Wembley Arena clip on a Nokia N80

Aswozzles — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:24:47 -0000

"This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."

BAD WARR!!!!

Roite Ap

Re: Sony PS2 EyeToy drivers for Windows

Matthew — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:46:02 -0000

fantastic cheers guys great job

Re: New theme (K2)

Tim (admin) — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:23:03 -0000

getk2.com seems to work for me. Maybe the site was down at the time.

I don't think v1.0 is released yet. The last official release is 0.9.5 RC1 I think. Otherwise you can get the nightly builds from http://getk2.com/nightly/ but they are alpha builds.

Re: New theme (K2)

ronchicago — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:45:14 -0000

I am seeing v1.0 for K2 on Google but can't find a download. Any insight? Is it available? No response from getk2.com

Re: Sim free 3G phone + Orange = no 3G

Tim (admin) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 05:38:50 -0000

A follow up on this. I decided to just go PAYG at the end of my contract and it turns out you can get a SIM only 3G USIM PAYG on Orange if you go to an Orange shop. It's free if you pay for £10 credit. You can get some on ebay also for around £5 but those are actually costing you more as you have to add credit on top.

Anyway, I'd heard you can transfer your contract number to PAYG and sure enough in the book with the sim it even gives you a phone number and details of information required to do exactly that. So I call the number and I'm told I have to go through retentions at Orange to downgrade to PAYG where they'll send a SIM. Well for a start I don't want to go anywhere near retentions and have to argue over my contract and I also don't want to get yet another SIM seeing as I've just got a PAYG SIM anyway (and it was a source from Orange who said to buy a PAYG SIM from a shop anyway)!

Re: Moby and copy protection

Tim (admin) — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 14:53:35 -0000

Yeah, unfortunately though the shift key solution only prevents the software on the CD loading on your PC. It's daft though that it's so easy to stop.

The annoyance I find is there is an extra layer of copy protection on these CDs that put errors on the disc that confuse CD-ROM drives. It will copy it's just that the drive will spin down very slow and it can take 5 hours to rip a CD!

Re: Exhibit Engine

mctalebe — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:17:26 -0000

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Re: Moby and copy protection

Jim — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:18:24 -0000

Well, you can bypass copy protection on a PC by holding down the shift key when you insert it - dunno about other systems tho. It is ridiculous though. I've bought songs online and wind up burning them to CD, then ripping to MP3 to get around the windows media file protection. PITA, but it works. Anyhow, no matter the protection scheme - if you can hear it, it can be copied.

Re: Lightbox and Coppermine plugins

eqIXtuPTnCubuL59 — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:53:08 -0000

Lightbox and Coppermine plugins at sirjohn.co.uk

Re: Lightbox and Coppermine plugins

kristin — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:43:32 -0000

Hello, have you considered using http://vikjavev.no/highslide/? If I knew php, I would do what you did with the coppermine script and lightbox and combined the two. I'm going to look at your code though to see what you did and see if maybe this problem of mine will be my intro to php. :D I personally think the functionality of the highslide script is far superior to the lightbox script.

Re: Lightbox and Coppermine plugins

Tim (admin) — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:15:46 -0000

Strange. I'm not sure what's going on then. I don't think my changes are probably very robust, they just work for me and the imagefixthumb method. I'm moving away from Coppermine anyway so not really looking at it.

If it's any help I'm using Coppermine 1.4.8 and Wordpress 2.0.4

Re: Lightbox and Coppermine plugins

Anja — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:09:39 -0000

Hi Tim,
I tried it with the lightbox version you used and the imagefixthumb version (thanks for the help with finding the ID). Unfortunately it is only working for one single picture of three pictures in the post that I tested. Weird! Is it maybe that you have a different coppermine version (I mean the gallery)? Maybe the plugin is not working with the gallery vs.1.4.4...? *sad*

Re: Lightbox and Coppermine plugins

Tim (admin) — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:36:48 -0000

If you view an image in Coppermine with the file information shown you should get a URL field in the file information, something like this...

http://www.sirjohn.co.uk/gallery/displayimage.p...

The number on the right is the permanent ID (ignore the '-').

It's recommended to use the URL to link to images generally in case you move images around your gallery, as this URL is permanent so long as you don't delete the image.