Apparently there is a thing called ownCloud which lets you run, amongst other things, a calendar server and a contact directory, both of which will sync with your android phone and here is a writeup of doing just that. I’ve not tried it yet, but any option to prise the data away from Google and to something I own has to at least an option worth trying.
Month: March 2013
Configuring get_iplayer
There are lots of ways of setting up get_iplayer. Here’s mine.
It means that filenames work across Windows and Linux, removes underscores from names, never deletes old episodes and downloads episodes into a directory named after the series and names the files with the series’ episode number.
Your own options file is in ~/.get_iplayer or c:usersusername.get_iplayer depending on your operating system.