If you have to problem that some apps crash directly after running them, i.e. you see the app “popup” but it immediately disappears leaving you back at the home screen, it might be a problem with Apple’s DRM. This can occur if a Sync with iTunes is aborted or the connection was lost. I found… Read More: iOS and Crashing Applications »
To automount FUSE mounts, there’s a nice tool called afuse.
To connect Skype to a SIP-PBX (e.g. Asterisk), there’s only one free application available: There are also some (Windows-)apps for money, like: Since you can’t integrate these apps into Asterisk, you need to add an extension for each Skype account (1 per PC). If somebody calls via Skype, you can let SipToSis dial a specific… Read More: Skype ⇔ SIP Interlink »
There are quite a few messenger applications out there. Most people prefer BeeJive or IM+ – not only because they promise you to keep you online 24 hours a day – even without having the application open on your iPhone. Privacy issues Since until today, no application can stay “online” in the background (i.e., if… Read More: Messenger apps for iOS »
xGPS (You need a jailbroken iPhone for this.) xGPS is a navigation system which uses Google Maps for routing and display of the map. It can download map tiles for offline use and can use the “normal” map as well as the terrain map of Google Maps. Your current position is shown centered together with… Read More: Navigation for iOS »
For the SanDisk cruzer Titanium U3, there is a sync-software called CruzerSync which really is an OEM version of DMailer. In the SanDisk U3 Download Central you’ll find a link to CruzerSync 6.2.042.1 which is ancient. Then I somehow found a link directly at DMailer.com, which serves CruzerSync 6.3.130.0 (which updates itself to 6.3.134.0 after… Read More: CruzerSync »
Keyring error If you get the following error message: The password of IMAP/POP3 mailbox xxxxx could not be saved to the keyring. Check whether gnome-keyring-daemon runs. If not, just run it once and the mail-notification should work again.
I personally like English language operating systems. So I have set my Ubuntu to English language. But I still want German curency, decimals and time. With most applications, you can define the formats to use inside the application. But I stumbled at Evolution which lets you define 12/24-hour setting for the calendar, but doesn’t use… Read More: Mixed Locales »
Include wildcard configuration files Lighty doesn’t allow wildcarded inclusions of configuration files, but you can do a little trick using the include_shell command:
DD-WRT is an alternative firmware for several WLAN routers which offers a lot of more features than the default firmwares of most routers, such as repeater mode, printserver, fileserver, etc.. I use it on an ASUS WL-300g and a Linksys WRT54GL. Configure as non-WDS repeater After a lot of trial-and-error and studying the different HowTos,… Read More: DD-WRT »