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Helio Ocean Tips & Tricks

yan — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:09:16 +0000

Strange but true: hold down your ‘backspace’ (the one below the flame) and it will turn on your flash/flashlight!
The USB cable included actually charges the phone. Plug it in, then exit the media sync mode and you can use your phone while it’s charging. The indicator will go green when it’s on full charge.
To send a text message hold the Down on the directional pad for a second or two (this will bypass the normal inbox screen)
To get directly to your music hold Left for a second or two (this will bypass the normal music screen). Another way to do this is hold down the play/pause button.
Same thing goes for Apps using the Right keypad
Create a new voice recording (bypassing the recording overview screen) by holding down the recording button
The camera resolution can be controlled with the up/down volume keys when in camera mode. The upper left button (voice recorder) changes the camera timer. The flash can be controlled with the upper right softkey.
The contact button (bottom right softkey) in the main menu can go directly to New Contact if you hold it down.
Hold down the up-volume key to go to full volume. Hold down the down-volume key to go to vibrate.

That’s all for now! P.S. Helio: where’s my firmware upgrade to fix all the wierd inconsistencies?

use times in your yml fixtures

yan — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:27:46 +0000

When using times in your yml fixtures don’t forget to get them into the proper format:

time: <%= 10.minutes.ago.to_s(:db) %>

NetNewsWire is now my rss reader of choice

yan — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:10:59 +0000

I just can’t be satisfied with any rss readers for OS X. It seems they all have strange flaws, but mostly what I can’t stand is any delay in gui responsiveness. This is why I won’t use Firefox on Mac. I just can’t stand that nanosecond delay of opening a new window or tab. There is something sluggish about it. So after using Pulp Fiction rss reader (even paying for it), I finally became frustrated. It literally took probably a quarter of a second to load entries, even if they’d already been loaded before. What gives? This is not a $25 product, sorry. Today I purchased NetNewsWire for $30 and am very happy. It feels very fast, and going between entries is instantaneous. My only complaing is I can’t seem to be able to delete the entries; they stick around in ‘read’ status. No big deal, though, everything else about this reader shines. Recommended!

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yan — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:29:14 +0000

People ask me all the time why I chose the name ’skwp’ as my online identity. It comes from a short story by Asimov that I read in my younger years. In this story, skwp is an alien scribe/translator who speaks myriad languages. Somehow this appealed to my senses, and besides it’s about as short as you can get on the internet while still being unique enough to have this name available on pretty much every site requiring registration.

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yan — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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