Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Candy clothes dryer and "Smart Touch" phone app

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This post starts with the failure of an old trusty workhorse. Our old Hotpoint dryer finally gave up on us after more than 12 years doing it...
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Friday, 31 May 2019

Another cheap chinese Android phone adventure

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Well, because I'm an idiot I've gone for another Chinese imported phone! The reason? My last chinese phone has developed an annoyin...
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Friday, 17 May 2019

gmail/google mail sending from Postfix

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Here's a nasty little change that google/gmail sneaked in over the past couple of months in 2019, adding further authentication/authoris...
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Monday, 15 October 2018

Junkendriven - New car related content only on Youtube

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My new series is coming to Youtube shortly, named #junkendriven Don't miss out, subscribe to my youtube channel https://www.youtube.co...
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Tuesday, 11 September 2018

UniFi APs and time scheduling

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UniFi has been my choice for WIFI access points for a while, I've put quite a few in now in large and small installations. The smallest ...
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Thursday, 9 August 2018

Xgody D24 and the nasty background app

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As my previous blog posting mentioned, I decided to get a cheap (less than £100) android phone from ebay, it's a chinese import and it...
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Friday, 13 July 2018

Xgody D24_Pro android 4g phone

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My latest "basic" phone is the Xgody D24_Pro, which runs android 7.0 (Kernel 3.18.35) with baseband MOLY.LR9.W1444 (PS the ph...
Saturday, 7 July 2018

Smart Watch - Bakeey HB08S

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I've done it again, I've looked at smart watches, and again got confused and surprised by the range and prices they go for. Sure, yo...
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Saturday, 9 June 2018

Draytek router hacks and odd DNS

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This is quite a common thing when you work in IT, you hear about exploits, hacks and malware doing the rounds. In fact you get slightly immu...
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Saturday, 19 May 2018

Cheap car radio antenna

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For a while my car radio reception has been pretty poor. I suspect it's a poor ground somewhere on the aerial, the aerial itself is a lo...
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Sunday, 29 April 2018

Fitting an Android head unit into a Vauxhall Corsa D (2011)

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This came about when I tried to fit an aftermarket stereo into my Wife's Vauxhall Corsa (An Xtrons, see the blog post here  http://www.t...
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