Play Grim Fandango on Linux with the Open Source Radeon Drivers
Even though the official line is that the open source AMD radeon drivers are not supported for Grim Fandango, you can get them to work very easily. »
Sync Multiple Google Calendars on Windows Phone
Windows Phone relies on Google Sync (ActiveSync) to get your Google Calendars on your device. By default it only syncs your personal calendar. Here’s how you can change that. »
MX Player and DTS sound
MX Player is one of the better video players available for android, but on my Tegra 3 powered tablet it required a bit of extra work before I could get the sound on most of my video files to work, particularly movies encoded with DTS or AAC. Fortunately, if you know where to look you can get it all working in a few minutes. Enable the software decoder for audio By default MX Player will try to use hardware decoding for as much files as possible. »
Wlan and the Networking service on Ubuntu
Because I have a mix of GUI and CLI systems, I configure all my machines through the command line. For networking this means I edit the /etc/network/interfaces file. Most of the time, this works just fine, except that after upgrading to the newest Ubuntu release on my laptop, all of a sudden my wireless network wouldn’t come up at boot. In a previous version of this post, I wrongly suggested that removing network-manager would solve the issue. »
Developer menu on Android 4.2+
If you recently bought a Nexus 4 or upgraded your phone to Android 4.2 you’ll probably be missing the “Developer options” in your settings menu. Fortunately, Google didn’t remove the developer options from their new version of Android, they just hid it from prying eyes. If you press 5 times on the Build-number in the About phone menu, your phone will recognise you as a developer and the Developer options menu will magically reappear. »