Dr Jan’s Tips From The Top

Previously on Twin Peaks I wrote about the problems I was having with the Lightning calendar add-on for the Thunderbird email client, to the extent that I had to un-install the add-on and the associated Google Data Provider add-on (which synchronises calendars between Lightning and Google Calendar).
I’m pleased to report that since the release of [...]

I have recently programmed my Nokia N95 phone to control my music player (the rather marvellous snackAmp) remotely.
SnackAmp sits on my Linux-based server box. It has a remote control feature (details here) which accepts control strings from a TCP socket. I wrote a Python script which runs on the phone to open a Wi-Fi connection [...]