Archive for May, 2009

Empty Trash from the terminal

23, May 2009

For some reason I can not recall I went into my Trash bin on Fedora. There was unsurprisingly a lot of trash! I decided to empty the Trash bin but it only succeeded partially. I had a DVD directory that did not want to be deleted. Looking closer at the message it was a permissions [...]

Simple SMS sending with AT commands

14, May 2009

Since I am analysing different SMS related questions because of a new project I am involved in, I thought the following page at Nokia was useful. It is a very simplistic overview on how to read and send SMS with your mobile phone hooked up to your machine. As said it only covers the most [...]

Latitude & longitude weather API

11, May 2009

While looking for a free and decent weather service API to display localised weather forecasts on tudomo‘s property details pages, I came across another blog describing how to get the current weather by using the iGoogle weather gadget API. The examples provided were mainly to locate the weather in a certain known city. My situation [...]


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