I have a Mecool KM2 Plus Android TV which I have in my garage so I can watch Netflix or whatever whilst riding my bike online. Generally speaking I really like this box. I also have some

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I have a Divoom Timebox Evo - it is 16x16 (10cm x 10cm) LED display which also doubles as a portable bluetooth speaker. It's a lovely device with decent sound and bright LEDs. By default it will show you animations that people have posted online using the Divoom app, or you can draw your own, as well as displaying the weather, time and more.

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Out of the box you cannot send files over bluetooth to a computer running the latest stable version of Ubuntu, Intrepid Ibex, 8.10. This is a bit of a problem for me since my main camera is my trusty Nokia N95. What you can do is send files to your phone, and browse its filesystem, just not receive. As you can imagine, there are some

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I have a new PC, and both my bluetooth dongle and mp3 player no longer work; some problem or other with the USB ports. So I’ve upgraded to Ubuntu. I can no longer recover from standby or hibernate mode without a hard reset (possibly because I’m using the proprietary fglrx drivers for my ATI card rather than the free radeon ones) but that’s a small price to pay. Skimming through

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It seems so obvious, I don’t why it didn’t occur to me before – my phone can take video and it has a bluetooth connection (which I use all the time for transferring photos to my PC), thus making it the perfect portabl...

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Instant messengers with bluetooth detection facilities. That’s where it’s at, man. If you’re on Linux, you’re probably a step ahead of the game already, given this page on the Gentoo Wiki (courtesy of Jim’s del.icio.us links) which shows you how to perform an action when your blueto...

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I’ve got a Bluetooth-enabled phone, and a Bluetooth-enabled computer. I’m online and I’m using Jabber. Except I’ve set my status to “Do Not Disturb” – when I do, it’s not for fun, there’s a reason, so it’s pretty annoying when my phone then rings or bleeps and vibrates to let me know I’ve got a message. I don’t care about messages – I’m busy. So why can’t my phone know about my ...

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