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After struggling for quite some time with WP-to-twitter, I’ve finally managed to find a solution for tweeting about new blog posts.
Twitterfeed takes an RSS feed and posts new additions to your twitter every 30 minutes (or longer if you so choose).
It’s super easy to setup and doesn’t require messing around with creating twitter apps. If you’re looking for a way to tweet about blog posts (or anything that has an RSS feed), check it out!
Most people that use an android phone will have heard of at some point or another.
This app allows the user to send a link from their Chrome browser to their android phone. This is good for continuing your morning browsing session as you run out the door to catch the bus/train/taxi to work in the morning or for doing the same on the way home at night.
Other than that, it’s not extremely useful to send webpages to your phone. Sending them FROM your phone to your PC on the other hand? Now that’s handy. Luckily, Android2Cloud has come along to the rescue.
With Android2Cloud, you can very easily (using your google account and a chrome app) send links from your phone to a PC of your choice.
I’ve been using Chrome2Phone for awhile, but it’s finally nice to be able to send the data the other way as well.
This process allows you to run a gnome-terminal from a remote linux box on your windows desktop instead of using putty.
Simple: gnome-terminal has better tabbing features and is all around more friendly to use than multiple PuTTy windows.
Pretty straight forward. You can get it here: Xming
Also pretty straightforward. The free version of Xming works really well, but if you truly enjoy this, you may consider paying them for their WELL advanced pay version. Do NOT check the box to launch XLaunch.
Select multiple windows and make sure Display number says 0.
Click next.
Choose start no client. Click next.
Leave the clipboard checked. I needed to check ‘No Access Control’ because I am using a separate computer. If you’re connecting to a VM using NAT networking, do not check this.
Under additional options, I added ‘-dpi 100′ to fix some font issues
On your linux client, type the following ‘EXPORT DISPLAY=x.x.x.x:0.0′ where x.x.x.x is your Window’s IP address.
Typing echo $DISPLAY should return something along the lines of: 192.168.1.106:0.0
Run your custom Xlaunch profile and make sure the icon appears in your windows taskbar.
Run gnome-terminal on your linux box and it should pop up in windows!
I finally got my blog back up. I powered up the old server and moved everything across today.
A LOT of stuff has happened since I last updated, but I won’t waste space here catching up with it. I’ll just start from now 
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /system/bin
cat sh > su
chmod 4755 su
No, really. It was just a note to myself. This bit of code is used to re-gain root access on your android after updating to the official cupcake release. It is typed via adb shell.
I’ve been struggling to get my desktop setup in a way that looks nice, works well, and doesn’t distract/confuse me while I’m working.
I think I’m getting closer to this goal.
I’ve discovered Rainmeter. I rather like this nifty little program, and will most likely be combining it with Object Dock soon to replace my task bar.
Trying to run around and source a machine to run a git repo here in the Uni, but failing quite spectacularly. I have quite a few machines I can use, but finding a space for them is near impossible.
The good news, however, is that once I find a space for these computers I can use them for my MSc and finally get that out of the way. This means it’s once again time for me to get back to work on that document. Should be interesting.
So my flatmate liked the idea behind my RSS downloader (Link), and he’s created a slightly different one that he uses to download podcasts from some of his favorite sites. It’s nice because it much simpler in that it doesn’t need to do as much parsing as mine, and so the code is a bit friendlier.
I also think that he probably spent a bit of time commenting his code 
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So, I updated my phone to the new JFv1.43_RC9 UK release and then promptly bricked the phone while trying to install a theme, LOL.
The phone is unbricked now, but the setup process for the phone is being dumb and taking ages.
Hopefully this will be dealt with soon and I can get on with my work.
I am currently testing out wordpress to see if I might want to switch over to a complete content management system vs. using a seperate blog and webpage system.
