Since Android lollipop update on my Xperia phone and tablet I was in desperate need for more storage space.
Earlier this year I bought Toshiba MicroSD XC 64GB card for Xperia Z2 tablet with declared speed of 40MB/s. You can find a card like this one for $23.59 with free shipping on eBay. I can recommend the following seller and their super fast delivery service: Continue reading “Good 64GB MicroSD XC cards from Toshiba and SanDisk”
One of the hardest things to choose right for me was LCD screen. There are so many of them to choose from, but there is no much choice if you are looking for 4:3 format screen in a compact form.
Since most of the retro games is made for 4:3 aspect ratio this was a must, so after a long search I found Towin L8009 8 Inch TFT Color LCD monitor at eachmall.com website that fits perfectly with it’s 8” size and 800×600 resolution.
Continue reading “Ultimate iCade Raspberry Pi bartop arcade mod – Part III – LCD screen”
If you are using Putty to connect to your Linux box and have encountered issue that your ncurses apps look ugly and with garbled text like:
Continue reading “Fix broken / garbled ncurses output characters in Putty”
Look into following folder on your PC:
[YourDrive]:\users\[YourProfile]\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Search for the file with extension .nk2
Close Microsoft Outlook then select yourfile.nk2 file and copy it to external drive or over network to another computer in the same Outlook folder.
Start Microsoft Outlook again and your address book will be available again on your new computer.
Beside retro-gaming I am using Raspberry Pi 2 as my always on media center running Xbian.
I weighted between OpenELEC and Xbian and at the moment of my decision Xbian won me over with file-system. Xbian uses btrfs snapshot system which proved to be quite useful if you run into any kind of trouble since it is really easy to do a fallback to previous file system snapshot. Continue reading “Excellent protective ABS Case for Raspberry Pi 2 / B+ for multimedia use”