Useful tech info I’ve gathered.
See Update Below I seemed to have lost the ability to add a custom temperament in the Cleartune tuner app on my Galaxy S6 Android phone. This app is probably the most popular tuner app for early music performers and is available on both Apple and Android platforms. The ability to add custom temperaments to …
Don’t wait for your computer. Make your computer wait for you.
Sometimes you run into a problem and do a Google search and up pops a solution that instantly solves your problem. This is what happened when I realized that I didn’t know how to switch my sound input and output from the computer microphone and attached speakers to a USB headset that I wanted to …
USB sound in Ubuntu – automatically selecting a USB audio device when it is plugged in Read More »
If you need to run USB Debug mode on your Android phone and the Developer Options are missing from your settings menu then read this: http://www.technipages.com/android-developer-options-is-missing.html Short story: Go to Settings>About and scroll to the bottom and repeatedly tap on “Build” until it says you are now a developer. Who thinks of this stuff?
Browser: Chromium 20 on Ubuntu 12.04 Recently I began having problems with Youtube. Some of the symptoms were erractic behavior of the volume slider or difficulty trying to move forward or backward in a video. The most maddening was not being able to type more than a couple of characters in the search box after …
Unable to type into Youtube search box and other problems Read More »
I hate “tap to click” on a laptop touchpad. In many installations it seems to be enabled by default. Some have a control panel for the mouse/touchpad set-up but in my current installation of Lubuntu 12.04 on my laptop there is no control panel setting. This article gives instructions for changing settings. However, it may …
Irritating behavior – trying to open the Dropbox folder from the tray icon lists the files in the browser rather than file manager. This answer worked for me on Lubuntu 12.04. Install libfile-mimeinfo-perl from the repository Run (in terminal) mimeopen -d ~/Desktop (any folder can be used) mimeopen should prompt you to pick something to …
Dropbox Opens in Chromium in Lubuntu with LXDE Desktop Read More »
I have been a closet geek ever since getting in trouble for taking apart the family lawn mower and, uh, well, not exactly fixing it so it would run again. But I DID get the broken washing machine running again not too long after that. I remember getting my first copy of “How to Fix …