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I think living in Fife I forget what a lovely place it is to "visit" as a
"tourist" myself so this summer when on holiday that's what we are going
to do spend a week on holiday exploring our home area. The East Neuk, St
Andrews, Falkland and the like. I used to work in Dunfermline and never
been there for years and even though I work everyday in Kirkcaldy it must
be over a decade since I was in any parks in the town. So this Fifer is
going to Fife on holiday.

So if you've not planned anything yourself what about spending a holiday at
home and rediscover places you think you know but maybe don't know as well
as you think.

Thanks to Menhir for inspiring this post.

Took this photo, got chips, Tegan had Scottish Tablet flavoured ice cream.
We bought a wee net for fishing in rock pools when I'm on holiday. Oh and
we did the wee job we had to do for our eldest lass while there, that being
the reason we were there in the first place.

What's that third nipple thing all about then?

Last night I got tucked in to a couple of techy phone things I felt I've
needed to do for a while.

I had a search on the net for unlocking tools for the Nokia 3510i I have
kicking about. Its a good staight forward texting and call phone. I have
Opera mini on it to enhance web use as well. This would do great just as a
spare phone incase any one needs it. It was locked to Orange which is ok
for half of us but the other half of the family are on O2 and couldn't use
it. So I found a UK site and was able to get an unlock code generated. I
put it in the phone and hey presto one unlocked Nokia.

The SPVs that me and Tegan have are ok being locked on Orange. In fact its
actually preferrable that way cause at Christmas the eldest lads phone
packed in and if Tegans one had been sim unlocked I have the feeling she
would have losted it to him completely. So I'm not going to sim unlock them
just now. The application lock though just had to go.

This is really annoying, the app lock thing. Fair enough a network locking
you to them but its a bit much when you are restricted on what you can have
downloaded to your phone. Yes they have their reasons but when you can't
have something like Google Maps it takes the piss.

So last night I signed up for MoCaDo forums and downloaded a registry edit
tool. The instructions on the site were really good and I was able to
change a couple of values in the registry and my C550 was app unlocked. I
downloaded TCPMP and it installed no problem when it wouldn't before. So I
went and did the same on Tegans C500. I still have to check the C500 with
downloading but I'm sure its ok as well. I will slip my sim in it later and
check it by downloading Google maps just to make sure.

So now the C550 has TCPMP as an app to watch video I think Tegan has her
eyes on it so I may end up with the C500 again.