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23Jun2009

[SOLUTION] Problem with battery life and overheating after upgrading iPhone OS to version 3.0

After updating my iPhone Firmware from version 2.2.1 to version 3.0, I got big problems with the battery life and when I plugged in the charger the iphone became really hot and I thought it will melt away. I was looking on google and found that I was not the only one to have this behavior since updating to OS 3.0. The problem for everyone seemed to be the same: short battery life iphone

Howto remove Nokia E66 Operator Branding

Recently I received a Nokia E66 company mobile phone. I never had a Nokia mobile phone before, and I have to admit that it is a relly truly amazing phone. One of the great things about it is the built-in GPS, and with a variety of GPS tracking software available I use it now as a sort of personal-fitness trainer. One thing that is really annoying is the branding of the Nokia firmware by Vodafone

[SOLUTION] iphone with FW 2.1 won’t start any app installed by AppStore

After successfully updating to firmware 2.1 using a custom firmware downloaded from ispazio.net, I started to install applications from Appstore and soon afterwards I installed the most important applications from Cydia: AppBackup, AptBackup and biteSMS. Before installing any app from Cydia, all apps from AppStore (Spore, BrainChall) started up with no problems, but soon after installing

Easy way to get new ringtones for your iphone for free

There are many softwares out on the market to create ringtones. Most of them are difficult to use, and then they can not create the ringtones for the iphone directly and you have to convert them first. The easy way to create and/or download new ringtones is to go to audiko.net. Either you can use the search function on the homepage and download the ringtone directly (you can download it in

problems sending emails using yahoo’s smtp server

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: 20d3ee7c7dbf42b4cbf5f98421901e42_000004 And this works

[Postfix] – warning: mail_queue_enter: create file maildrop Permission denied

After trying to setup postgrey, I had a lot of warning messages in my mail.log file like this: 20d3ee7c7dbf42b4cbf5f98421901e42_000005 To get rid of this messages, I had to do the

Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address – Apache – HTTPD Error

I was getting the following error on one my servers, after updating apache2 and php5 20d3ee7c7dbf42b4cbf5f98421901e42_000008 This is what I did to fix the problem 20d3ee7c7dbf42b4cbf5f98421901e42_000009 In my case the output showed that apache2 was already using the port, although no sites was working and it was not even possible to stop the apache2 daemon. I ran the following to learn

Top wordpress plugins you can’t do without

There are probably more then 1,000 plugins avaliable for wordpress, and some of them have to be good. But how to determine which one you need for your blog? There are a lot of "best wordpress plugins" out there, so this list isn't intended to be a list with the "best" plugins, but I show you here the plugins I use on all my blogs and are essential in my eyes. So, let's get started: Akismet >> The most common spam fighter plugin. It comes already shipped with wordpress, you just have to get your API-key on wordpress.com and you're done. This plugins works great for my sites, on some of them I get more them 200 comment spam a day, and just imagine how much time you save by turning this plugin on and not have to go to such a lot of comments to find a few good ones.

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