hack on Chris Boyle

ScanSnap iX100 + Android hotspot

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a quick tip to make this mobile scanner more conveniently mobile.

How to open Tumblr links in their app

Sun, 13 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Do you have Tumblr’s Android app? Are you annoyed that links to Tumblr posts nevertheless open in a browser, whereupon they nag you to use their app? UPDATE: Some time in March(?) 2016, the Tumblr app itself started offering to handle URLs of Tumblr posts. Unfortunately it seems to only open the relevant blog showing most recent posts, not the post that was linked to. The same problem now manifests when I open a post via my redirector.

Hello, MetaWatch!

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

(Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

My IPv6 setup

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

For my latest ugly hack, I wanted to give any/every machine in the house a globally-routable IPv6 address, and I didn’t want to have to babysit the setup every time the router’s IPv4 address changed.

Android keymaps

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I recently bought a Bluetooth keyboard to use on Android; unfortunately some keys weren’t recognised at all and others weren’t quite mapped as I’d like. This is fairly easy to fix as an end user, as long as you have a rooted device (adb remount must succeed). Update: this is less likely now than in 2010. Here’s a quick howto anyway, since I couldn’t find one.

Lock on unplug

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s a hack for Gnome (vaguely relevant to Android too) that I’ve been using for a little while. When I get up from a computer, I generally want to lock the screensaver. I also pick up my phone from a USB dock (not the Nexus One Desktop Dock; that doesn’t connect to a computer). So why not have the screensaver lock automatically when the phone disappears from USB?