LG 42PC1RR
I am very pleased with the family plasma, even if it by now is a bit old. 42″ but not full HD, a useless analogue TV module (Sweden is all digital since a just after i bought it) .
Anyway; it’s been there since quite long but it seems the “dancing red sports” is a common problem on the model.
http://www.minhembio.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=146294&st=60
Another thing; any suggestion is how I on the PC can set-up the 1366*768 that the TV supports? I can define it on the tv side (default is 1024*768) but this is not a step that can be set in Windows Xp in the native state.
Must remember this:
Jag ringde detta numret när jag skulle klaga på mina röda prickar: 0771-414379. Det går till LGs helpdesk. LG service har numret: 0550-85537.
Programs I can’t live without
When getting to a new computer there are program that I simply must install or it would restrict the way I work on computers.
Total Commander – With the old roots in the Norton Commander structure and Directory Opus for the Amiga the two window file manager tradition is where I was born and bred. It has so many features that I simply don’t know how to do without it; pattern based mass renaming, support for all compressed formats, FTP, fully configurable button-bar, extensive search.
VLC – Videolan plays all the media-formats you feed it without the need to install the vast variety of codecs available. It’s all built in, nicely packaged and available for free. I wouldn’t mind a more cosmetic and skinned front-end, but the engine inside is second to none.
Firefox – I refuse to work with Internet Explorer. I believe in competition and a vital part of that is to steer away from the leading provider and support a challenger where I can do this without too much effort. So as you notice I do run Windows (XP, Vista and now 7) as all efforts to run Linux failed horribly. It has improved SO much but so many times did it fail on lack of support for a piece of hardware. I am well beyond the average user but even I am reluctant to go to the shell window and start issuing a “sudo” command, no to mention the “classical” “make and install” combination.
Must have plug-ins:
- Swedish and English dictionaries. I know you can’t always tell I use it 
- Google Gears – Offline support
- IE tab – allow using IE for specific pages withour fireing up IE itself.
- Twitterbar - If you are a tweeter, twitterbar is fantastic. When you find a link to share, enter a comment in the address field and fire away the comment + link as a tweet.
- Xmarks - Synk your bookmarks between computers. It can do passwords as well but I never spent the time to get that to work. It’s worth the effort to install it by the bookmark synker alone.
Microsoft Office – Yes, Open Office cannot give me what I need – sorry! Pivotables based on an underlying SQL query to a MySQL database is yet to show up in OO, so there is no option for me.
Nokia Ovi Suite – I gues this replaced the PC Suite. Being a Nokia junkie, I do of course need this.
Vuze – Nuff said. Good shit that you need
Dropbox – You get access to a slice of diskspace on the web and a brilliant sync function to it. The stuff that I have at home and at work which I need to have consistent across is there. Source code for a project, EXE files that in the virus infested net never seem to get through in any other way, plus you can provide a link to a file or directory for someone.
Avast Antivirus - Going cheap, this is the best no money can buy in terms of safekeeping your environment.
ACDSee - My favourite program for handling the family pictures. I have used it since version 2, where it’s now in version 9. Very good! Favourite feature is the ability to rename files from an EXIF property.
Picasa – Picasa is a free picture managing program. Very good and the 3.5 has a truly nice face recognition feature. If it could do a few of the things ACDSee can, then I would terminate the use of ACDSee but so far they are complimentary.
Snagit – Snap pieces of the screen. The new “snipping tool” in Windows is a light version of Snagit and works really good (however a bit primitive) but nothing beats Snagit.
Thunderbird – Mail and news monster. Second to none. My mail is relayed to GMail so I can read it on the move, but mail at home is read using Thunderbird using IMAP. I then collect and delete it from the server using POP3 from Outlook. Might seem like a clumsy solution and to some extent it is. I am sort of halfways between webmail and client based mail, wanting the best of both worlds.
TweetDeck – Recent acquaintance. Really convenient for following feeds from twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and so on. Actually made it possible to follow both Facebook and Twitter without much human CPU load.
I would want to say I use Spotify and Voddler a lot, but I honestly don’t. I have accounts, have both programs installed, friends working for Spotify and honestly support their cause with all my heart, but I consume local media using MediaPortal (TV, movies and sometimes music) on the HTPC and MediaMonkey (music) and SqueezeBox (music – hardware but the HTPC also run as a SqueezeServer)
Webservices
iGoogle – My opening page is the iGoogle page where I have a set of gadgets that shows the information I need on a regular basis
- Twitter gadget - Read your twitter feed in a compact way
- Stock portfolio – Monitor one or more stocks. I am naturally following my employer.
- GMail – THE online webmail. I collect my mail using POP3 (with no delete) from my normal accounts. Gives a common interface to all of it and also a storage repository.
- Latitude - Google’s positioning service that sits on top of the Google Maps
Flashcards
The daughters all have their Nintendo DS Light. We are going to add another and naturally it makes sense to then buy a DSi, as they are now available. Now I also seek to get Flashcards to enable playing homebrew games.
There are several different vendors available and it’s fairly confusing which supports what.
So the options seem to be:
I rule out the iTouch2 as it doesn’t support Firmware 1.4 of the DSi
So, any feedback welcome! Please use the option to comment!
Kill WGA/OGA
1. Close all Office programs
2. Open command (you know or don’t mess with this) – do it as ADMIN! Windows button + R and enter “cmd”, select “run” from the menu or one of the other ways to do the same thing.
3. Type the following (or copy it from here): MsiExec.exe /X{B2544A03-10D0-4E5E-BA69-0362FFC20D18} – press enter
4. Go to Windows update (Select it from menu or from Internet Explorer, which by the way you shouldn’t even have a short-cut available to!) and search for updates
5. KB949810 will appear – right click and select “Hide update”
6. DONE – you have pwned it!
I tried it in three cases and worked flawlessly on all three. What you do is simply an uninstall of the WGA component, and block it from being part of Windows Update.
Phone unlocking
Unlocking phones is a science of it’s own. There is a point in locking. Commercially the operators funds your mobile, and want to keep your traffic so that they get the money back. I am more in favour of set-ups where you pay monthly instalments on the phone during the committed period and get it unlocked, but there is commercial freedom and locking is one component in this that we need to live with.
Having said this; My wife lost a phone and now need a spare one to use until she can get one from the operator when the committed period is over. I have two handy;
Nokia 6680: Not the newest of Nokias, but still uses the BB5 type of locking. There is a BB5 unlocker coded by a guy named Dejan, but it takes a very special cable which I don’t have …
An LG U8130: I have found three different solutions
* Sircily All LGR U81xx Unlocker (Simple, coded in Delphi and with no docs what so ever)
* Speed_unlocker (SeTool2) – Looks really competent, or should I say messy and complex.
* Babes Unlocker 1.3.9 – Looks simple enough but again no docs, so you’re on your own. The good thing is that is checks the available COM ports, and can handle ports over COM9.
I seemingly have problems with the drivers as I get a blue screen whenever I use one of the programs and it talks over the serial port.
This is also interesting:
http://www.mobile-files.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-11892.html
A guys called riadhtech says this over Babe Unlocker (a few typos fixed):
1) with your SIM in the phone launch babes.
2) close and open it again because sometimes it crashes.
3) select 8120
4) choose COM port
5) press unlock
6) press a little bit the power button on the phone
7) wait the message "unlocking ok" or "timeout" ( there is no difference )
disconnect the phone from the cable
9) Leave and restore the battery
10) turn on the phone
11) insert pin ( if you have it )
12) with your SIM in the phone digit this code *2945#*88110#
13) The press OK on both the points
14) go to MENU-9-0 and make both RESET CONFIGURATION and RESTORE CONFIGURATION.
pour U8110-U8120 utilisez ce code 277634#*#
pour U8130-U8138 utilisez ce code 47328545454#
If you don't reset and restore the phone will not unlock.
15) AND THAT'S ALL...
Now what i wonder is WHICH COM port? i see four of them! “LG Device Management Port”, “LG Obex Port”, “LG USB Data Modem” and “LG USB Modem”.
Edit: Found the installation CD and need to try to update the drivers. 3 Sweden kindly provide it
http://www.tre.se/upload/Programvara/mob/8130CD.zip
Mac means problems …
So, I fetches a DMG image and was to burn it for someone… TROUBLE!!! MacigISO, UltraISO and NERo were all said to be able to write it. Failed – not a recognised format … ???
Then I planned packing it so that I could bring the image on a suitable medium to the recipient. It packed a few (siingle number) percent.
Found TransMac (http://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm) which made me realise this was a compressed DMG file.
So now you know; DMG images can be compressed. Expand them (“depack” for all I care) and then burn the image with your favourite piece of software ….
Selecting a language
Howdy!
Adding the blog to the home page was easy, as was adding a new theme to not look like the orginal default Word press instances.
Selecting language is harder; english or swedish? I do know my swedish better of course but that is limiting the audience. Well, do I write for me or an audience? English it is 
