Archive for November, 2008
Seconds in one Sec
As a programmer, sometimes I need to deal with seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months and years to make it easy for the customer to have a glue of time. Just have a look at some popular platforms like Youtube or even this blog showing you how old something is. Timestamps are often used on unix-like [...]
Suspected Malware Site
I am really very confused about some comments on my Blog. This happened since I wrote an article about Apache2 and Perl. The comments are containing a part copied from the original content and the senders homepage URL is somewhat like http://sun.mygamesok.com/200811/server-error-29.html (do better not click). Safari 3.2.1 has now a new option in the preferences at [...]
Ping lite
Network problems can be hard to get fixed if you do not know the error source. But there are always nifty tricks to reach the goal. For the iPhone there is a little free and powerful suite helping you out with networking. Ping Lite helps offers you Pings, Subnet Pings, Traceroute and Telnet. The coolest [...]
Apache, Perl and Shebang
If you are a devoloper and especially for web, then it could be very comfortable to have a local installed Webserver, primarily Apache2. With a Mac it is absolutely no big deal, because you just go to the Preferences. In the Internet pane you will find a icon named Sharing and within there you can [...]
Calculator science
You may have noticed that the iPhone also has a nice calculator installed. That is really quite useful if you want to calculate some small things quickly. But what about a science calculator mode? Sometimes I really do need those scientific functions. Just turn your iPhone to widescreen and see the missing options. Rotate it [...]
LED Banner
Sometimes there is no way to communicate with spoken words. Then you may try written words. But as a geek “pen and paper” is somewhat like a foreign word and I can only “write” when having a keyboard in front of me. If you are the same kind of freak than me, give a try [...]
Zoom
Often, when browsing a website you have very small pictures on it which are very hard to see. The same is with small text also being really unreadable. With Mac OS X you can zoom in and out very easily by just holding down Control+Alt and using the scroll wheel of the mouse or your [...]
Dropbox
Sharing files is quite cool if it is easy. There are many ways to achive that, for example by a messenger, mail, FTP and so on. But often the average user does simply not get along with these techniques, because the setup can be complicated and the use of them, too. The first complication often [...]
Twitsaver
Yesterday, something strange happened at twitter and I am still not sure if I should like it or not. I tend not to like it. As you know, I am a twitter fan and tried several free clients on the iPhone. The best in my opinion is Twitterrific, because it is the only free application [...]
Skitch
Skitch is a wonderful freeware tool from Plasq helping you creating screenshots with annotations or simple image manipulations like rotation or scaling. As you can see in the picture, I made a snapshot of my DJ homepage and did some simple things like text and shapes. You can resize just by dragging or make snapshots [...]
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