If you have Quicktime plugin for Firefox, annoyingly enough, Quicktime takes control and becomes the default mp3 player for your browser and leaving no option whatsoever to change the default mp3 player. Even if you change the  Tools -> Options -> Applications settings to change the default player, it will have no effect as Quicktime has already Hijacked this setting from users.

Now, we go brute force and restrict these kind of plugins to take such controls in the future:

• Go to about:config
• Type ‘plugin’ in the filter box (minus quotes)
• Look for ‘plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types’
• If it already exists and contains a value, add ‘,audio/mpeg’ to the end of it, otherwise just change the value to ‘audio/mpeg’
• Fully close Firefox, wait a few seconds for it to clean up and die
• Launch Firefox again.. click an MP3 link..

voila! it does whatever you’ve specified in your Firefox Options -> Applications.

If you have recently Jailbroken the iPhone 3GS with the new OS 3.1, you may have noticed that if you take a picture the camera now tries to save the picture but eventually gives up and in your camera roll you see a black thumbnail instead of the nice picture you just took :). You say why, wth is goin on?

Well, its because the picture folder’s owner is now set to “root” for some reason and the camera app can’t access the picture folder. The easy solution is to change the folders permission to 777 so that the camera can write to it.

1. Log in using SSH
2. change permission of the following folders to 777
/private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM
/private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE
/private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM/100APPLE/.MISC

Voila! Camera is working again :)…

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It’s kind of late to be posting this, almost 11 years that is :) but keep on reading and good thing will unveil slowly!!

My 98 Dodge Caravan, recently I had to take it’s battery out for some maintenance and after putting the battery back in when I started the car, weirdly enough, all my dashboards lights started flashing (the lights on the wiper and climate control buttons).

98 Dodge Caravan Dash Board

I was pretty sure this must be some issue related to “reset”. So I took it to show the guys at maintenance and they told me right away that I need to replace my battery with a new one, which seemed very illogical to be honest.

So I start searching for some sort of reset and surprisingly enough, I found one!!

Following the steps below, I was able to stop the light blinking/flashing on my Caravans dashboard:

1. Start the van.
2. Slide the temperature lever all the way to the left (full cold).
3. Turn the Mode Control to ‘panel’ (the one that sends air to your face only).
4. Turn the ‘blower switch’ to all the way to full.
5. Now go to the leftmost three buttons. Press and hold the top one (rear wiper on constant) and the bottom one (rear wiper washer fluid) until the lights come on solid then begin to flash, and then you can let go.
6. The AC will now calibrate. You will feel the air blow out of all the different zones at different intervals and see lights come on and go off. Then after a minute or two the top button you pressed will be slowly flashing. This means it has been completed.
7. Press the last flashing button and you are done.

Now that was fun to see it actually work and not to mention saving almost $200 on replacing the battery was a big reward too.

I was aware of resets in modern devices such as Xbox 360, PS3 or remotes that has these sort of hidden sequences that executes certain reset protocol but to find it in a 11 year old van was really surprising. I am pretty sure that this sequence still exists in the new caravan models, so if you are having similar sort of problems you may want to give this a try in newer models too.

I hope this helps someone too, let me know if it does.

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Today after starting XP with the “Last Known Good Configuration” option I lost the network connectivity on my Desktop. Although Internet was working fine but “Microsoft Windows Network” would not list my network computers and when I tried the Network Connection repair option, the error message I kept getting was “Windows could not finish repairing the problem because following action cannot be completed: Clearing NetBT”.

So the logical approach was to first find a method to clear NetBT and after  following these steps below, I was able to clear NetBT and get my network connectivity back in XP.

TCP/IP stack repair method for use with Windows XP:

• Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt.
• Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog
• Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ip reset [log_file_name]

Note: the log_file_name needs to be specified, e.g. netsh int ip reset reset.log