Posts from 2008

BlueProximity automatically locks your GNOME screen when your phone leaves Bluetooth range and unlocks it when you return — hands-free security without the hassle.

Connect a Nokia N70 to the internet via 3G on Ubuntu 8.04 using the GNOME network admin — no command line needed, just USB or Bluetooth and a six-step guide.

Replace the default SSL certificate in WSO2 Web Services Application Server with your own self-signed or CA-signed certificate — a step-by-step tutorial.

Send SVN commit notification emails from the author's address by using the %(author)s variable in the from_addr field of mailer.conf on Debian or any SVN server.

Poll-n-Ping exclusively supports Bloglines pinging, now totalling 20 services — and actively monitors upstream ping servers to ensure they remain online.

Poll-n-Ping now reaches 18 blog search services — surpassing Ping-o-Matic's 16 — and automatically monitors your feed so you never have to manually ping again.

Poll-n-Ping now automatically pings 15 blog search services. Register your blog and never manually ping again — new services are added regularly for free.

Bundle and minify script.aculo.us with Prototype into one file using YUI Compressor, reducing 244 KB to 41 KB on the wire with gzip — an 83% bandwidth saving.

GNOME 2.22 arrives with GVFS virtual filesystem and PolicyKit, and will ship in Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9 — a big architectural step forward for the Linux desktop.

Poll-n-Ping is a free automated blog pinging service that monitors your feed for changes and pings blog search directories automatically — no manual effort needed.

A Drupal 5 patch that extends the advanced search block to filter nodes by author name and creation date — useful for sites with thousands of nodes.

Blogger served 502 errors for over 15 minutes affecting multiple blogs — a look at what might have caused the outage and why self-hosting starts to seem appealing.