In Turkey we are approaching a referendum for a major constitutional change. I’m not going to write about what the change is and how it impacts citizens’ lives, that’s my father’s job Instead I’m going to write about how voting abroad for Turkish ex-pats is handled. I’m only living abroad for ten years and I [...]

The Beast, originally uploaded by Emre Saglam. Heavy HDR. Picture of the evil clown thingy in Seattle.

I successfully printed my first envelope on my Canon MP620. I used Open Office and this wiki article from openoffice.org. Al I needed to do extra is to choose the orientation icon like this. The rest was just to feed the envelope from the manual feeder Easy and recommended!

I am starting to believe that my battery issues were 2-3 isolated incidents. Lately the phone is staying a full 13-15 hours without any issues with moderate usage: 3g/wifi browsing, media player + FM transmitter and the rest. One thing I did is to remove the RSS applet and empty the RSS feeds. I almost [...]

This battery life situation is kinda pissing me off. I wrote a script to get charge, battery %, and cpu load. Made it run every 10 mins to collect the data. I unplugged the phone at 9:40 am. No 3g, no wireless, very few interaction. About 10-20 mins phone conversation. And at 15:30 the battery [...]

Background information: All and all I’m definitely a Linux person. That means my expectations from n900 was primarily to be hackable I’m also coming from the world of blackberry. My previous hand-held was 8320. Other than being an extremely well designed smart-phone for business and email, it was pretty much useless for me. In this [...]

OK, the title means: World of Warcraft One Time Password Goodness. I just got my OTP generator from Blizzard. It has a nice horde colors touch. The activation was very simple. I was expecting that it would replace my static password, but it didn’t. Instead it asks your password first (what you know) then it [...]

This is very, very good. Be safe on the road…

I’m writing this entry to push me to finish my neverending story about the digital frame project I started. I’m hoping that the entry will give me some sort of ignition after more than a year. I had an old Dell Latitude c600 sitting at home and collecting dust. Like many other old hardware I [...]

This is my favorite: If you press J and K on the email list or while reading the email, it moves between previous and next emails in the context. (just like in the vi ) While reading and email, if you press N it goes to the next email, P to the previous email. And [...]