Mr N

In order to format a USB device under Unix you need to follow these simple steps under the root user account. Find out the name of the device file representing the USB hardware device: If the system is busy I clean out the dmesg to make it easie… more »

Nokia's N900 has quite a nifty way of helping you type. If you enter a word during an SMS, an email or on a web page it tries to predict what the word will be an gives you the option to auto-complete.The phone has 3 dictionaries to help do this. The… more »

I recorded a friend's stag do on a new video camera that produced a 4.5 GB video file. I wanted to stream this down to the telly and play it on the Xbox but the wifi bandwidth wasn't quite beefy enough, so it was stuttery.I then entered a world of he… more »

Are you finding that GMail is sending some of your friend's email to the spam folder? Well this is the post for you. A couple of simple steps will see you right. Login to the web interface. Click the Settings link at the top right of the screen… more »

It took me a while to figure out how to set up calendars for a company using Google Apps. Part of the problem was that I had not completely understood how the calendar is created and therefore could not understand the mechanism that allowed the calendar to become visible to employees of that company. more »