Stuff on tech

31Jan I’ve freed my iPhone

One thing I hated on the iPhone - not having the option to copy music from two different computers onto it without losing everything. But no more!
Some background information: I use a laptop for work and also have about 3 other computers at home. On the home PC’s I have the bulk of my [...]

30Jan Is your monitor set up right?

Test it using the page here. I had to adjust both my contrast and brightness (my LCD was really bright). Btw, the tip they give, for setting the contrast high, at 100 and brightness at 25 is not very accurate, so make sure you pick your own.

29Jan An update plugin to update the host

I hate updating wordpress. It takes time and I need to be (slightly) carefull of what I do - I’ve already set up stuff once, I’d really hate to have to do it all over again. So I started for an automatic tool that would do this for me and would run within the confines [...]

26Jan Setting up subversion on Windows

Today I had something to test that required a svn repository. Since my home repository wasn’t answering my calls (well, pings actually) I decided to do a quick install of the svn server on my Windows XP box. From what I remembered it should have been simple enough.
After restarting all the process at one point, [...]

19Jan How the mac messed my morning

Weird title, but true. Today I planned to make my life easier when working with files from my home. For this I want to install a Lamp server using Ubuntu’s Server edition. Since I had a mac handy, I burnt the iso downloaded from the ubuntu site with the Disk utility app. And proceeded to [...]