Listening to your iPod whilst it is charging
One day I was sitting at my laptop happily chatting on MSN and listening to a new CD on my iPod nano. Looking down to rewind a track or two, I noticed that the battery was pretty low. "No problem," I thought "I'll just plug it into the laptop to charge it up." Of course when I did that it stopped playing and iTunes appeared which isn't what I wanted. I could have just listened to the music using iTunes its self, but that's not the point - and in my opinion ...
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17.07.2006
Trace Route on Linksys Routers
Several people have mentioned this so I thought I'd put up a short article about this. On some of the old firmware for the Linksys WAG354G and also possibly the Linksys HG200 (which as far as anyone knows is a cut-down version of the Linksys WAG354G) there is a bug which causes the trace route tracert command to fail. The main symptom of this is getting a tracert result similar to this example: Tracing route to clarity.jolt.co.uk [195.149.21.11] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 ... Read more Comments(1) 24.06.2006
iPod Nano diagnostics menu
Incase you were like me and were wondering if your iPod nano has a secret diagnostics/engineers/service menu, then you'll be pleased to hear there is! There is a lot of information floating around about how to get into this menu on the full-size iPods, but unless the engineers at Apple have fingers about 4mm across its impossible! I spent a while just messing around holding down buttons and stuff in various combinations until I found it. [include]adsense_horiz.php[/include] Ok, one t... Read more Comments(48) 22.03.2006
Linksys WAG354G Hidden Pages
The Linksys WAG354G router is an ADSL router and wireless access point that is sold in the UK. As well as looking kinda cool (as far as these things go) and actually being a pretty decent and reliable bit of kit with some useful features(which seems to be something of a rarity these days!), its mildly interesting in that it uses a MIPS Linux distrubtion as its firmware. Because Linux is under the GPL license, Linksys have actually made the fireware source code available for download - you can ... Read more Comments(45) 23.02.2006
