After migrating from a dedicated server to my new hosting over at www.mediatemple.net, I was looking for a easy to use but yet powerful tool to migrate my existing databases from my former host to the new one. I was browsing the web, when I run over a tool called heidiSQL. I had a look at their webpage, and the tool looked very promising. I downloaded the latest version, and was surprised how easy and straight-forwarded...

According to the guys over at ispazio.net, the new iphone 3G (with GPS antenna and UMTS module) costs less then 100US$ to produce to Apple. Therefore a sale price set at 199US$ would be fair, but you will get this price only with a new 2 years contract… Crazy, imagine how much many the guys over at apple make….

I used yahoo’s smtp server (smtp.mail.yahoo.it) a long time for sending mails through Thunderbird, but recently it stopped working. I always received error messages that my mail was not relayed, but didn’t get a specific error code. So, after looking around for a long time, I had to change my smt configuratin to the following: smtp server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com Port: 465 Secure Connection: SSL Username:...

After trying to setup postgrey, I had a lot of warning messages in my mail.log file like this: May 7 12:26:19 gandalf postfix/postdrop[6065]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/713410.6065: Permission denied May 7 12:26:29 gandalf postfix/postdrop[6119]: warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop/724102.6119: Permission denied May 7 12:26:29 gandalf postfix/postdrop[6065]:...

I was browsing the web, looking for some iphone stuff, when I came across a website which offers a image managing program similar to Google Picasa and ACDSee. The clue of this program is that you can browseyour image collection like you can do it on your iphone: The program has a lot more features, just to mention some of theme: Image Management Image Library Management EXIF Editor Liquid Zoom (yes, another...

I was getting the following error on one my servers, after updating apache2 and php5 Starting web server (apache2)...(98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs failed! This is what I did to fix the problem netstat...

After some days, it seems that the guys over at zooomr.com have fixed there problems with the rss feed. I updated my zooomrRSS plugin, so now it works again. If you’re using it already, you only have to overwrite the existing file and do not need the change the configuration. If this is the first time you’re using it, please have a look at the configuration page here: http://inmyplace.info/2006/09/02/my-zooomrrss-plugin-a-first-release/ Download...

As someone wrote me today, my zooomrRSS plugin is not working anymore. I did a quick check, and noticed that the guys over at zooomr.com did some changes to the feed and is not displaying any item anymore. I adapted the plugin, as soon as they fix the problems with the feed I’ll update the plugin and release it here. So stay tuned, hopefully they get it fixed a.s.a.p

Openmoko announced today the launch of the first phone based on the open source environment “openmoko”. The phone has a bit of a “iphone” look, has a very appealing design and the price is quite competitive. There are 2 versions of this phone: a basic package for 300 US$, where you get the phone, a 512MB Micro SD card, a stylus, a battery and a pouch, while the advanced version, on the...

I was surfing on http://digg.com today, when I found an amazing new search engine. It’s totally different from what you know, a kind of “human to computer to human search engine”. It’s definitely not designed for the everyday use, but a great fun to play around with. The site is called “Ms. Dewey”, and here is the link: http://www.msdewey.com/ The site takes the first time...