General
ZA’s nokia store joins others in failing
Further more on Nokia’s music store fail I recently found out that The South African branch or what ever they call them launched a localized version of the music store.
Nokia has a large(55.07%) share of the mobile’s with in South Africa in fact they have the largest, Yes I know this is only from people downloading applications but most of these users will be tech savvy enough to be able to use a mobile music store.
Back to the problem at hand. With this huge potential market Nokia’s za version of the store is even worse then worldwide and uk at least even with their bugs they allow any browser(mobile/web) to view their site and is mostly usable.
Firstly viewing the site from firefox. “Unsupported Device”
Nokia Music Store does not currently support your device. Further information about Nokia Music Store and compatible devices can be found at the Nseries web site.
You can access the Nokia Music Store from a PC using Internet Explorer
So that is what I did using Useragnet Switcher set to N85 one of the required Nseries I get redirected to an error page
An error has occurred – we apologise for the inconvenience.
If you are using a mobile device please try reloading the Nokia Music Store
If you are using a PC with Internet Explorer click here to try the main Nokia Music site
If the problem persists, then click here and tell us which page you were trying to view
Nokia are you trying to get users to use your product? The Uk version is complaining about slow sales? Maybe their product just doesn’t work good enough.
Their profits seems to be falling quite drastically is laying off staff an attempt to fix this?
Android Is Expanding
- Android releases CupCake (1.5) with some major improvements.
- Vodafone launches HTC-Magic in Spain.
- Samsung launches their first Android based phone the i7500
I must say from the pics of the HTC-Magic it looks like it has quiet a aesthetic improvement on the G1 although I think my black version looks much better.
Weechat Urlgrab Script
I have been using the devel version of weechat since the security issue was found.
I mentioned there was 2 scripts missing from the devel version that I used to use, weenotify, urlgrab.
weenotify was ported over by lavaramano
Urlgrab was another script that used extensively there wasn’t a port for it so I ported the original script.
My current Weechat Plugins
1) weeget – Weechat Script manager to install/update/remove scripts
2) iset – Provides added features for setting configuration vars.
3) urlgrab – Follows your buffers and detects urls (rather crudely currently) and adds them to memory allows opening of them in your favorite browser via /url N
4) notify – Uses Libnotify to alert users of private messages or highlights.
5) shell – Allows execution of shell commands from with in weechat.
Latest Cellphone Identity Scam
Summary
They phone you with the premise that you have won something but they require you to validate you are owner of the mobile by means of giving them the last dialed number. This is the exact same way that the networks validate you for a sim swap. Once doing they they claim to have lost “their” mobile provide “their” last dialed number and get hold of you a copy of your sim that sends/receives as if it was you.
This loop hole has been in the networks for some time. I wonder why it has taken scammers so long to make use of it….
Although this isn’t limited to banking it could spread over to your subscription services but there is little to no gain from subscribing your number to a R5.00 per week service when they are now fitting the bill.
The same process could be applied to sms electricity purchases the only difference is that the coupon you get back is linked to your pre-paid meter box in your home so the fraudster would not be able to make use of it. Funny that Eskom is more secure then the cellphone networks…
Something to note that this scam only really affects pre-paid users since if you are on a contract they require physical proof you are in fact the owner of the sim card by means of ID or drivers license.
I hope that no one I know is affected by this type of scam and they have the common sense not to believe claims made fraudsters.
Weechat Short Cuts
I discovered the alias command a few days ago. This is great when you have more then 10 channels open. Weechat supports alt+# but you only have 10 of those.
The command for opening your 11th buffer is /buffer 11 but this is often longer to type then alt+0+f6. Easy way to make this shorter is to alias /buffer with /b.
/alias /b /buffer $*
This tells it to redirect all params to /buffer
the same can be done with /url for those of you using the urlgrab python plugin.
/alias /u /url $*