Advanced Mobile Location (AML) – The gory details
When you call 999, your phone can automatically determine your location using wifi and GPS positioning data, then text it to the emergency services.
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iTunes Match couldn’t give me high-quality *everything*
With iTunes Match it’s possible to delete all of your music and then re-download a higher-quality version from Apple. Sometimes.
Transferring iTunes Ratings
There must be an easy way to transfer star ratings from an old iTunes library to a new one… right?
AirPi – a tentative v1.0 release
Earlier this year I forked the software used to control the AirPi, a small board which monitors air quality measures including Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen Dioxide and VOCs. Having made quite a lot of changes I’ve just tagged a v1.0 release on GitHub, so thought it might be prudent to take a look at what’s been added and/or amended.
VW Golf Mk7 – SD Cards and Album Art (Pt. II)
I wrote a post over a year ago explaining how to get album art to display correctly in the CMS system in the Mk7 Golf. While it worked for most of my music, and most other people’s, it wasn’t entirely foolproof and I couldn’t work out why. It turns out that iTunes may well be sabotaging your album art behind your back.
RPi / AirPi air quality station – Setup
I’ve recently been working with the Atmospheric Chemistry group at the University of Leicester, setting up some AirPis which they purchased recently. The AirPi is a small board which pairs with a Raspberry Pi, and reads a number of air quality measures.