Author: Toni Corvera

Rooting a Minix

Index Introduction Setting up the device ADB access Enable normal users to access the device Enable ADB to recognise the device Rooting procedure Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Sources Introduction This article is about rooting a Minix set top box (a Neo X5 mini in my case), although it may be applicable to similar […]

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Pipelight: Silverlight en Linux

¡Por fin! Una solución para poder usar sitios que requieren Silverlight en Linux sin problema (en la mayoría de casos, al menos). Hace tiempo que Moonlight está abandonado, muerto y enterrado. Moonlight era el engendro de Novell y Microsoft que implementaba Silverlight (pero no todo) en Linux, y que nunca fué una solución demasiado buena. […]

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Relevation 1.2.1 released

Next release (1.3) announcement I've just published a very minor update to Relevation. It just fixes the previously broken minimal-GUI and adds support to build RPMs directly from the tarball. Relevation 1.2.1 http://p.outlyer.net/relevation/files/relevation-1.2.1.tar.gzorhttp://p.outlyer.net/relevation/files/relevation-1.2.1.zip (zip includes PDF and HTML manpage) pre-packaged http://p.outlyer.net/relevation/files/relevation_1.2.1-pon.1_all.deb Debian users can use my apt repository located at http://packages.outlyer.net. Instructions are provided there.

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Copying EXIF metadata between files

This tip might be useful for those cases when an editor ignores a photo meta-information (which seems fairly common in phones). $ exiftool -TagsFromFile source.jpg target.jpg or $ exiv2 ex -e e source.jpg  # Extraction. Also $ exiftool -exif -b source.jpg > source.exv $ mv source.exv target.exv  # Names must match $ exiv2 in -i e target.jpg  # […]

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Relevation 1.2 released

Next release (1.2.1) announcement I've just published a new version of Relevation. The biggest change is that it can now combine search terms, useful to reduce the number of results when you've got multiple similar logins alike. Check the updated man page for more details. There's also a couple of small but important bugfixes. See […]

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New tool release: Quick File Share for Android

I've published my second android app, a bit more useful than the first one (and also more prone to be a source of problems :P). Quick File Share is meant to ease file sharing between devices by using a Wi-Fi network. Sharing content between Androids sucks: you can use bluetooth for a painfully slow experience […]

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New tool released: Network Type Indicator for Android

I recently published my first Android app, and I hope someone else finds it useful. It's a bit of niche tool, but comes to cover a missing feature of some phones. This is a tool for those that like to know which kind of network coverage type they're under –in other words, if they're on […]

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VCS 1.13 released

Next release (1.13.1) announcement An updated version of vcs is available to download. Shame on me for the long wait since this has been pretty much completed for months. The biggest change this time is the "blank frame avoidance" feature, with which (mostly) blank frames will not be captured, if possible, this is one of […]

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Features to be removed from VCS

There's some features in vcs I plan to remove to ease working on it's absurdly big code. I haven't seen them used in the wild except long ago, plus in my samples and manuals by others. I'm calling for your opinion, however, to know for sure if I should actually remove them or not. Use […]

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Descarga de vídeos Flash, Parte 3: El formato F4F

Parte 1: Descarga de vídeos Flash, Parte 1 (Marzo de 2011) Parte 2: Descarga de vídeos Flash, Parte 2: rtmpsuck (Abril de 2011) Y continuando con la serie, tenemos un nuevo formato que, de nuevo, viene a complicarnos la vida, aunque como de costumbre hay formas de descargarlo: El (relativamente) nuevo formato de Adobe "HTTP […]

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