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I found out after numerous attempts that you can’t use American Express to purchase apps in the Android Market if they are sold with non-U.S. currency.  This is unfortunate, but it wouldn’t be a big deal if you got an error message that made any sense.  It simply says “invalid credit card”.  MasterCard works just [...]

A few apps that I found that fill in gaps in the functionality: gTasks – sync Google Tasks Video Player – Droid can play videos, but there is no way to browse them by name.  This fixes that.  It doesn’t actually play videos, but it helps you find the video you want the built-in player [...]

Downgrading from 3.1 to 3.0.1: http://www.redmondpie.com/downgrade-iphone-3.1-to-3.0.1/ Enable tethering: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/06/28/activate-and-enable-iphone-as-internet-tethering-wireless-modem-without-hack-or-jailbreak/

I have been using IpodMe for quick conversions (mostly for the wife’s BlackBerry), but EncodeHD looks like an interesting alternative. EncodeHD is a an application to re-encode all types of video files for use on your home media player or on-the-go device. It aims to provide a simple interface with no fuss, and give you [...]

If Safari doesn’t seem to be storing any cookies (and you’ve made sure that you have set it to accept cookies in the Settings page), the fix is to change the ownership of the directory where the cookies are stored.  Of course, you need to jailbreak, first. chown -R mobile /var/mobile/ Explained here.

I found a few that look much better than the stock themes. Icons/Calendar/Messages/Tasks: Bold-ish theme: http://www.pimpmyberry.com/showthread.php?t=94 Icons/Calendar/Messages: Bold-ish theme: http://www.pimpmyberry.com/showthread.php?t=67 Storm-ish theme: http://www.pimpmyberry.com/showthread.php?t=847 Icons/Calendar: Storm-ish theme: http://www.pimpmyberry.com/showthread.php?t=848 iPhone-ish theme: http://www.pimpmyberry.com/showthread.php?t=2383 Smokey Blue theme: http://www.pimpmyberry.com/showthread.php?t=1178 Icons Only: Javelin-ish theme: http://www.pimpmyberry.com/showthread.php?t=1142

The wife just got a Blackberry Curve through work (sidenote: she had the Storm for about 2 hours and traded it in – that’s a device with tremendous potential, but a long way to go).  In trying to figure out which codecs it supports, I found a list on RIM’s support site.  Bottom line, they [...]

ToodleDo Sync Tool – syncs Outlook to ToodleDo (which, in turn, syncs with a bunch of iPhone apps) For Outlook 2003: ToodleDo causes Outlook to give a security prompt. Advanced Security for Outlook by MapiLabs lets you get around that. If you are in an environment where you don’t have admin rights to your PC, [...]

I finally got around to rebuilding my HTPC (does anyone call them that anymore?) yesterday, so now I need to set my sights on getting file conversions working again.  I’m pretty set on using DTb for file monitoring and processing control.  For transcoding, I was going to use VLC (or possibly Handbrake), but I might [...]

I posted a method for converting SageTV files to iPod/iPhone compliant files a while back, but a number of the files weren’t converting properly.  I also had problems with mencoder cutting commercials out of the files.  So, I retooled the approach, and I am now getting 100% success, using the approach outlined below. NOTE: Several [...]