I had misplaced my tablet and found it again today after a couple of weeks. It wouldn’t charge however. Turns out this a sort of android 4.x bug. All is well now after doing this…

To charge a dead Nexus 7:

1.  Plug-in your dead N7 to a wall charger. (Jump immediately to step 2.)
2.  Immediately after plugging it in, press Volume Down and Power at the same time.

*This should get you into the bootloader menu. You may have to try this with different chargers or test out the timing in order to get it to work.

3.  Once in the bootloader menu, use Volume Down until you see “Power Off Device.”
4.  Choose that option with the Power button.
5.  Once your device is off, unplug the charger and then plug it back into the device.
6.  You should now see the battery meter  with your device returning to life.

Worked a treat for me 🙂

Found a neat way of boosting your wireless signal indoors with some tinfoil, a template, pritstick glue and a craftknife – the Windsurfer aerial

I’ve found a useful gmail feature when trying to work out how to reply quickly to a ‘first come first served’ email about a wine tasting event that is likely to be very popular.

You can enable the ‘canned response  feature in gmail, setup a response ‘yes i’d like to attend the wine tasting next tuesday’ and create a filter so when the wine merchant emailed me my reply went back automagically and immediately. It lets you setup an automatic response when an email is received from a specific sender.

Setup canned response

Of course if the wine merchant had sent his email from a different email address from his usual one I would be stuffed 🙂