If you have a HTC smartphone you may well have used the HTC Footprints application. This application lets you create your own virtual ‘footprints’ around the world with geo-tagged pictures, web links, timestamps and Google maps integration. It’s a pretty slick little app.
There’s a problem though - you can’t easily change the date of ‘footprints’ added after the fact. So for instance, if you get a phone tomorrow and add all of your ‘footprints’ (for which you can import your own pictures and enter the GPS locations), these will all be created with date and timestamps corresponding to when you created them, not the date of your visit to the place. I have seen many forum posts asking how you can ‘fix’ this.
Well, I have found a way. It’s simple and it works reliably on my HTC Hero with Android 1.5 and I’m pretty sure it’ll work on any other versions of Android on any other HTC phone.
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Dean Blog, Totally random date, footprints, HTC, time
It’s true. Twenty days into the month of July and nothing in the log since the last week of June…save for 4 RTTY contacts a few days ago. So far this month I’ve just been busy doing other things and getting on the bands has taken a bit of a back seat.
The 4 RTTY contacts I mentioned were on 20 and 30m a few nights previous when I called CQ for a while to see what was out there. ‘Not very much’ was the answer! Having said that though, one of the stations worked was A61E in the United Arab Emirates for which I still need a QSL card so I’ll be sending my card to his Spanish QSL manager in the next few days.
I do keep telling myself I really should try to get back into some late night PSK31 and as 20m is often crowded with signals I may well give 30m a try. I’ll be hoping I can do that before the end of the month!
Dean Amateur Radio, Blog, Totally random A61E, G0RIF, QRT, QSL, RTTY
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…in 1967 the BBC first transmitted a colour television signal (on BBC 2, from the Wimbledon lawn tennis championships as it happens).
The BBC 2 full colour service subsequently commenced on December the 2nd, 1967. BBC One and ITV started colour transmissions on November the 15th, 1969.
More recently, in 2008, the BBC began experimenting with live streaming of certain channels in the UK, and since November 2008, all standard BBC television channels are now available to watch online.
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Wimbledon Centre Court
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Dean Pictures, Totally random BBC, colour, television, Wimbledon