Author Archives: adq

While I'm at it, Check_fus Downloader is a windows app, which can download and decrypt official Samsung firmware updates directly from Samsung's servers. Avoids having to hunt about on forums!

I’ve been happily using my Galaxy S II for the last few months, and of course I’ve replaced the original firmware with a custom one. However, recently a colleague acquired one as well. His had the stock Orange firmware, and has a special app called “Signal Boost”. Searching around, I found that this is actuallyContinue reading “GAN / UMA / WIFI Calling / Signal Booster on the Galaxy S II”

Meet my favourite new backup tool: Duplicity. It can do incremental encrypted backups to a variety of destinations, for example ssh, webdav, Amazon S3. It also seems fast compared to other solutions I've tried, and its really really simple to get going! Farewell, rsnapshot and rdiff-backup!

I’ve been following this project for a while; I’ve even contributed some reverse engineering work to it. (I bought one of the devices from dabs a while back). Note that the majority of the work has been done by Steve Kerrison and Antti Palosaari. However, up until today I’ve been unable to use it as IContinue reading “HD DVB-T2 terrestrial TV using the PCTV Nanostick 290e”

Garden of Cosmic Speculation, a set on Flickr.

Beltane Pillars Panorama, a photo by adq_uk on Flickr. Interesting; didn’t think this would have worked at all!

Beltane 2011, a set on Flickr. Some mostly infrared pics from Beltane 2011

London Trip, a set on Flickr.

Ullapool Trip, a set on Flickr.

CARGO @ The Edinburgh Mela 2010, a set on Flickr.