Jan 14, 2008 by Cristi
If you live outside the US and love listening to online radio, you might remember Pandora, probably the greatest free online service where you can listen and tune your music to your taste. Well, as Pandora is now only streaming to US-based listeners, what are people outside to do? Head to globalPandora, where you can listen to it without a problem (at least for a while, because we're ...
Jan 8, 2008 by Cristi
Got an e-mail in my inbox this morning from Pandora with the thing all UK-based users of this service have feared: Pandora will stop streaming to the UK as of January 15th. They have been forced to isolate everyone except the UK for a while, in hopes they might still be able to work out a deal. I guess it did not work out.
Oh well, there's always Last.fm ...
Nov 18, 2007 by Cristi
One of my clients' Linux server got hacked somehow recently and after discovering the hacker's files on the server I proceeded to re-securing the system and removing all traces, files, programs of that user. While doing this I stumbled upon this nice article on how to remove a user and lock down all files and access for that user on your system. Maybe it's a former company employee ...
Sep 5, 2007 by Cristi
When you have to start a new web project from scratch and you get absolutely no indication from the client as to what colors he/she would like on their site, or if they have just one base color to start with, where do you turn to? Color scheme generators? No? Sure?
Anyway, here's a short list of my favorite color tools for the web:
My main and favorite one: ColorMatch ...
Sep 3, 2007 by saxxonian
In the latest release (Beta version 4.1.7076.4458) of Google-earth there is a fine add-on for those who like virtualisation: the Flightsimulator. If you have dedicated hardware, like Joystick, Steering-wheel, Flightyoke, etc. you will enjoy a better experience.
Just it the special keyboard shortcut: CTRL-ALT-A (Command+Option+A on the Mac) and you get a requestor allowing you to choose from two types of aircraft - an F-16 or a ...
Aug 30, 2007 by saxxonian
That "Bong" is nice to hear if you first boot up a Mac. After several times it might happen you wish it wasn't there, for some people after the first time. Get rid of it! Use StartupSoundPrefPane, a nice piece of software that comes under the FREEWARE licence and is currently at version 1.0.4. System requirements are Mac with PowerPC processors and Mac OS X 10.2 or later. ...
Aug 28, 2007 by Peter
For those who have access to a server and maybe an FTP account or even an IM client transferring large files is usually not a big problem. If you do not have any of these tools you could give www.transferbigfiles.com a try. All you have to do is select the file you want to upload and put in an email address. After the file is uploaded an email is sent to the ...
Aug 23, 2007 by gary
I've found a great article about things to consider when planning a MySQL backup solution.
It covers:
1) How fast and how easy do you want the MySQL Recovery process to be?
2) What will be the impact of MySQL Backup process on your Application?
3) What will your backup configuration look like?
i.e. - the What, Where, When, and How of MySQL Backup.
4) How will you manage your backup process and backed ...
Aug 20, 2007 by saxxonian
You might have read about my favorite Linux based OS in one of my previous posts and even might consider giving it a try. If you are though new or quite new to Linux, there is a list of things you should consider and embrace as a philosophy. It has been around for a while in different forms and flavors but this one is tailored to fit the ...
Aug 14, 2007 by Adrian Short
Web applications like Gmail and the 30 Boxes calendar are great. You can access them from any net-connected computer. You don't have to worry about backing up your data. Installing upgrades to the software is someone else's job. It doesn't even matter which operating system you're running.
One thing you couldn't do until now was work with your web apps and data offline. Google Gears changes that. Even better, ...
