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I have a PHP application that is is on a shared hosting provider.  I have no access to cron or anything else to run a scheduled task.  I can’t fake cron by relying on a visitor to the application to call a PHP function to run the task.  So, I set up a scheduled task [...]

I bought the Jawbone ICON, “The Thinker”, in December 2010.  In fact, I’ve had every Jawbone they’ve offered save the new ERA which was just released.  Overall, the Jawbone’s have been the best bluetooth headsets I’ve ever owned and I’ve owned A LOT of them. Unfortunately, my ICON kept losing the pairing with my Droid [...]

Dear Google Voice: Please buy PhoneTag and integrate their transcription technology immediately. That is all. V/R, Calmighty

I’ve been using Google Voice for a long time now.  Outside of the horrible voice transcription, my only gripe has been that contacts in Google were not synced to Google Voice.  I just added a contact to my Google account this morning and when I went to add it to Google Voice it was already [...]

That “know nothing” would be me.  Here’s a thought.  Before the z4Root app was released, you needed a tool and sbf file to flash your Android device.  This tool, RSDLite, and the proper SBF’s were supposedly leaked and found their way into the wild.  Posting of the RSDLite executable was met with DMCA takedown notices. [...]

I love Outlook.  It is probably the best thing that’s come out of Redmond.  Now, with Xobni, it’s even better.  Xobni is now in full public beta.  So, even though I have some invites, it appears you don’t have to ask me for one. What’s it do?  Simple, it aggregates all of your messages and [...]

I’m a huge fan of multitasking. At any given time I have ten or more programs, windows and widgets open on my desktop. Although desktop virtualization is common to Linux and Mac users, I didn’t realize there was a windows solution available. That is, until I found Dexpot. Dexpot allow you to have up to [...]

An update to the recently released WordPress 2.5 is now available. If you’re like me and running WP, you need to update now as this release fixes an important security issue: We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration. The vulnerability is not public but it will be shortly. In addition [...]

I wrote about the importance of a favicon for your blog or Website and how to get one, but left a crucial piece of the puzzle out. Want to use your own favicon on Blogger or another blog hosting service?  If you have access to a server or image sharing account, it’s pretty easy. Just [...]

Sure, you can use Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail or whatever as your email provider and get good things like forwarding, your own domain, POP3 access, but if you want kick ass email you have to check out FuseMail. But, before you click, no it’s not free. However, it is super affordable. At $0.99 per email [...]