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Entries from May 22nd, 2009

Google Calendar “Tasks” not yet available in Google Apps

May 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Tools

I had high hopes when I saw the news which said “Tasks, now in Calendar too” from the Gmail Blog. I have always been searching for a decent TODO app nicely integrated with my other appointments.
Unfortunately, when I checked the Calendar application from our Google Apps Standard, the link was not there. I then checked [...]

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Show Desktop Command on Mac OS X

May 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Mac OS X, Tools

I’m relatively new to Mac OS X and have been struggling to find out how to quickly “Show the Desktop” to see all the icons I have in there.
I have been used to clicking that little “Show Desktop” icon on the bottom left of the screen in Windows and was looking for an equivalent on [...]

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PHP writeUTF implementation

May 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Java, PHP

We currently have an application in Groovy/Grails/Java that we’re slowly porting to PHP (for more affordable hosting costs).
We encountered a problem when we needed to convert one of our routines for writing out a binary file. We were using Java’s DataOutputStream.writeUTF(String) method and had a hard time trying to write binary data in PHP.
After much [...]

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vi Page Up/Page down for Mac OS X

May 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Mac OS X, Tools

In case you’re wondering how to move up or down in “vi” from Mac OS X terminal:
Then CTRL-B and CTRL-F should do the trick.

Got this from the Mac forums at macworld.com.

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Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu 9 Downloads

May 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Mac OS X, Tools

Windows 7 Release Candidate is now ready for beta testing and will be available until July 2009.
Here’s what you need to have:
* Internet access (to download Windows 7 RC and get updates)
* A PC with these system requirements:
o 1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
o 1 GB RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB [...]

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