Given gMail has one of the best web application interfaces (for its usage) and can sit happy in your browser tab, it is after all still a web application and can not interact with your local address book, offers no drag and drop possibility and desktop notifications. Furthermore, Gmail offers some really useful features like [...]
This YouTube Video is just too good to pass on. As a big Star Wars fan (I guess, I watched the first one 50 times at the movies) this is a must see. And if you don’t know Star Wars (well you know, the Avatar generation) then it is a must see, so you can [...]
I like to keep myself informed on different topics, as such RSS feeds are a great way to keep informed. They allow you to follow a site, without having to visit a specific website and scan for the latest articles. Moreover, it can keep you updated of software updates or news that would not enter [...]
Right, so I’ve been on the internet for quite a long time. Like many of you, I most of the time “could” ignore those ads when visiting a newspaper website, but today, while reading the times.com website, I was just simply annoyed. You have to look at the screenshot to understand what I mean: I [...]
I have to admit, I’m a huge fan of Movies and TV shows that have some fiction involved. Movies like “Avatar” and TV shows like “Heroes”, “Lost”, and “Flash Forward” are my favorites. Nowadays we have come a long way to making the screen look real. Remember the first Star Wars movie (and how mind [...]
The last couple of weeks, I have had to use the Internet Tethering function that comes with the iPhone. During the course of this time, I made some interesting experiences that I would like to share. Phone Calls There is one thing I learned the hard way when I enabled Internet Tethering and wished that [...]
Nginx is our favorite web server currently as it is fast, lean and easy to configure. Performance is just outstanding and if you haven’t take a look at it. One thing that I noticed while we deployed Nginx with Tomcat is that their default size for the buffers are very low. Don’t know why a [...]
Today I set out to get MySQL and PHP setup on my MacBook Pro. Since Apache2 already comes with MacOS X (mine is Snow Leopard and yours should be too!). Now, the funny thing is that I first searched on the web how to best install PHP and MySQL. Surely, I came across MAMP (a [...]
SugarCRM is a good open source CRM, but the overwhelming functions and navigation makes it “sometimes” hard to really get to the one thing you want to do. In any case, it does the job well. Apart from that, I just came upon this error message within SugarCRM: Warnings: Inbound Email cannot function without the IMAP [...]
We just moved a whole bunch of servers to a new hosting center and moved from CentOS to Ubuntu (server) and Apache to Nginx (more on this in a later blog post). While we migrated mostly everything without problems we were confronted with the problem that our SSL certificate gave us an error message of [...]