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How to calibrate Motorola Photon extended battery

Thursday, 2012.07.19 J.D. H. 4 comments

2012.07.20 UPDATE: So far the battery life with the extended battery is simply phenomenal! I recently purchased a Hyperion extended battery for my Motorola Photon (about $18 on Amazon). Mugen is another popular brand of extended batteries, however, they seem to be $60+. So for now I am pleased to try out this lower cost battery and see how it performs After switching to an extended battery it seems that the Photon will report that the battery is running down fairly quickly

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PayPal.com is down this morning, not available

Thursday, 2012.07.19 J.D. H. Leave a comment

PayPal.com is down this morning for at least some users: Hopefully the issue will be resolved soon! Other posts today about similar issues: Is Paypal down? – Discussions – Site Help – Etsy Teamshttp://www.etsy.com/teams/7718/site-help/discuss/10639538/Paypal down, paypal printing unavailable, other issues… Top Search Terms:paypal down (5)is paypal.com down (2)is paypal down 2012 (2)september 2012 paypal down (1)is paypal down 11/5/14 (1)is pay pal not working april 17 2013 (1)is paypal down august 19 (1)is paypal down march 11, 2013? (1)is paypal

Download Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Phone USB Drivers

Thursday, 2012.07.19 J.D. H. 6 comments

Yesterday I needed the latest Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Android Phone USB driver, however, the Samsung site was down 🙁 In case you are in a similar situation, here is a download mirror of the latest Samsung driver: [download id=”10482″ format=”1″] s2 link This download was tested with AVG anti-virus and installed on Windows 7. Below is the official Samsung driver site if it is currently working. Support – AT&T Cell Phones SGH-I727 | Samsung Cell Phoneshttp://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SGH-I727MSAATTDescription OS Release Date

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Motorola OTA update for Photon (DETAILS)

Wednesday, 2012.07.18 J.D. H. Leave a comment

Today I received a notification from Motorola about the availability of an OTA (over the air) update for my Photon. Down below you can find the full details. But first, three important notes: If you have your Photon rooted, reports are that this update removes root. 🙁 There is no mention of a fix for the no-audio problem on Lapdock 500 etc. when using the phone as a WebTop 🙁 This does not update the Photon to ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) 🙁 Details

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Work 1 failed, Error = 504.00 1 1 DVDFab to iPad [solved]

Monday, 2012.07.16 J.D. H. 4 comments

[starreview tpl=16] I recently received error 504.00 1 1 in DVDFab: This error occurred while trying to use the video converter to convert an MKV to h.264 for use on an iPad (1st generation and 3rd generation). I tried a variety of options in the settings menu and I also perused the forum threads below. What eventually worked was installing the latest beta edition of DVDFab: DVDFab8192QtBeta.exe (dl direct or [download id=”10480″ format=”1″]) After installing the beta version, my video converted successfully! 504.00

Adjusting color balance on Android phones

Friday, 2012.07.13 J.D. H. Leave a comment

One of the beautiful things about Android devices is that they are so configurable. Case in point, adjusting the color balance on my phone. My Motorola Photon has a nice resolution screen (256 PPI) but I never found it comfortable to my eyes 🙁 Today I had my Photon setting next to my iPod touch and found that on the Photon screen whites were too white. It really looked less appealing and caused more eyestrain than the otherwise antiquated iPod touch screen.

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Great tools for understanding, writing and testing mod_rewrite rules

Tuesday, 2012.07.10 J.D. H. Leave a comment

I have been writing some new mod_rewrite rules for my Pixensity website. The following tools and reference articles have been very helpful. 1st. Mod rewrite generator: http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/ 2nd. Test your RewriteRules for Apache mod_rewritehttp://martinmelin.se/rewrite-rule-tester/ 3rd. Mod_Rewrite and Regular Expressions Apache Web Server forum at WebmasterWorldhttp://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/4332.htm 4th. Cool question and answer from stack overflow (not the top answer, but it worked better for me than the top answer) ([A-Za-z0-9-]+) …which matches letters and numbers. I would also like to match on dashes and