Ronan's Blog http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:28:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 en Restore your texts from iPhone to Android Phone http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/restore-your-texts-from-iphone-to-android-phone/ http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/restore-your-texts-from-iphone-to-android-phone/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:57:48 +0000 Ro Cool Stuff http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/restore-your-texts-from-iphone-to-android-phone/ Convert Backup to XML File
2) Copy said XML file to Android Phone
3) Install Android App
4) Restore SMS Messages
5) …
6) Profit !

Currently doing it (6631 messages), class … Thought my text history was gone.

http://faked.org/isms2droid/

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Kindle Montessori, Dublin 15

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]]> http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/memories-of-mayrhofen/feed/ Steps required to get married in a church in Ireland http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/steps-required-to-get-married-in-a-church-in-ireland/ http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/steps-required-to-get-married-in-a-church-in-ireland/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:06:49 +0000 Ro Personal http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/steps-required-to-get-married-in-a-church-in-ireland/ I’m getting married this day 6 weeks and having gone through all the legal and church requirements, there’s quite a lot and not a definitive list anywhere, so here goes:

1) Attend a pre-marriage course (We did ours in All Hallows College fee is €150), you will receive a certificate.

2) Register the marriage with the births, deaths and marriages department in the HSE (HSE fee €150). You will need copies of your birth certificates, details of bridal party and bring your passports with you. You will receive a legal document to be signed on the wedding day
2a) If your priest is from abroad or not a regular parish priest, you will have to ensure that he is a registered solemniser

3) Got to the church where you were christened and get a new copy of your baptismal cert

4) Go to the church where you were confirmed and get a new copy of your cinfirmation certificate

5) Go to EACH parish that you have lived in since you were 18 and get a “letter of freedom to marry”

6) Go to your local parish priest, presenting the letter and certificates above, as well as a photocopy of the certificate you got form the pre-marriage course

7) Your local parish priest will then complete a “Pre-Nuptial Enquiry” document with you and (if necessary) send all the documents to the church in which you are actually getting married in.

More details are here

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Latitude - Allows my friends to see exactly where I am right now, why would anyone except for over-protective parents ever want this?

Wave - A simple web based group chat history to replace Skype group conversations and e-mail threads. Too revolutionary and too confusing to ever be taken up.

Buzz - Extending mail to allow for social networking status updates and location information.

Buzz is the real final straw for me, Google has ceased being an innovator and is desperately trying to cling to the coat-tails of other successful internet trends (i.e. Twitter / Facebook in this case). Buzz will never take off, for the simple reason that people become invested in their social networks with the time they spend on it as well as the community they build up. One might argue that Google and GMail contacts are already a community, but the are an e-mail community and not a social networking community.

Another Google product Fail has been released.

]]> http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/google-has-jumped-the-shark/feed/ Retrotranslator - Convert Java5/6 Classes to 1.4 http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/retrotranslator-convert-java56-classes-to-14/ http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/retrotranslator-convert-java56-classes-to-14/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:15:41 +0000 Ro Development Java Web http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/?p=97 Retrotranslator is a tool that makes Java applications compatible with Java 1.4, Java 1.3 and other environments. It supports all Java 5.0 language features and a significant part of the Java 5.0 API on both J2SE 1.4 and J2SE 1.3. In other Java environments only the Java 5.0 features that don’t depend on the new API are supported.

Could prove very handy !

]]> http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2010/retrotranslator-convert-java56-classes-to-14/feed/ The nicest coffee ever! http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/the-nicest-coffee-ever/ http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/the-nicest-coffee-ever/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:03:00 +0000 Ro Personal http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/?p=96 I was over in Paris at the weekend and having been there over a year ago, I had the nicest Coffee of my life in a Coffee Shop near Notre Damme.

Having searched for the shop, nad eventually found it …. Only for it to be closed, was heart-breaking !

]]> http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/the-nicest-coffee-ever/feed/ Spatial Sorting of Data based on location http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/spatial-sorting-of-data-based-on-location/ http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/spatial-sorting-of-data-based-on-location/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:29:23 +0000 Ro Development GIS http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/?p=93 Very handy tip today on how to drastically improve seek times in results for spatial queries, by physically re-ordering the rows of data to be contiguous on disk.

VERY HANDY.
SpatialDB Advisor: Spatial Sorting of Data via Morton Key

]]> http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/spatial-sorting-of-data-based-on-location/feed/ LinkedHashMap is Actually Quite Useful http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/linkedhashmap-is-actually-quite-useful/ http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/linkedhashmap-is-actually-quite-useful/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:40:23 +0000 Ro Development Java http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/?p=92 After reading this article, I’ve done a little code reviewing …. Great Class !
[JavaSpecialists 073] - LinkedHashMap is Actually Quite Useful

]]> http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/linkedhashmap-is-actually-quite-useful/feed/ How to run Multiple Instances of Firefox http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/how-to-run-multiple-instances-of-firefox/ http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/2009/how-to-run-multiple-instances-of-firefox/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:08:52 +0000 Ro Development Cool Stuff Web http://www.ronancrowley.com/blog/?p=91 Found this instructions for how to run your regular Firefox install as well as a portable version at the same time.

Awesome!
Tip - Run Multiple Instances of Firefox Portable | Pro Reviewer (My Free Review)

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