Archive for tag tips

Attaching an MP3 player to a hard hat

Take one nice and wide elastic band and pull the ends through the venting holes on a Peltor G22 hard hat. From the inside, adjust the size of the elastic loop to fit the player and tie the ends together with a wire tie. If you want, add some friction between the player and hat surface by [...]

Auto-compacting folders in Thunderbird

I often use an SE K610i mobile phone to check my email over IMAP. However, I’ve got Thunderbird at home and when I delete or move messages out of the inbox it doesn’t delete them for real immediately. SquirreMail handles these semi-deleted messages fine, but the phone displays them. This has been pretty annoying and [...]