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Google Calendar e telefoni Windows Mobile
Sep 4th
Did you know you could synchronize your Windows Mobile device with Google Calendar without using any third party application? Amazing, isn’t it? 
Simply follow this link:
Creative Zen: A section in the INF is invalid
Feb 5th
I hate when Hard Drives fail. Ok, I’m a paranoid so I backup everything but… reinstalling everything just sucks. And if you have a bad Karma, a device that worked may not install anymore. That’s what happened to my Creative Zen which refused to work on a Windows XP sp3 fresh installation! If Windows tries to scare you with an error message stating that “a section in the INF file is invalid”, simply download and install the following file:
Don’t thank me:) Donate to myCreative Fansite
MSI Wind U100: keyboard problem
Jul 12th
/Me OMFG
Do you know someone on this planet who can manage to destroy a 399€ jewel in less than a hour? Now you do. I just tried to update the BIOS of my new, flaming, MSI Wind U100 Black when I found out power wasn’t plugged. So I thought “what’s the problem, let’s just plug it in”. I wish I had never done that: keyboard suddenly stopped working. I tried rebooting to Windows XP (a pure DOS environment is required for BIOS updates) but, sadly, nothing changed. Keyboard was not working, no keystrokes where detected, I wasn’t even able to get into BIOS, since DEL key wasn’t working as well. But, before getting too despaired, I tried to unplug Wind’s power sources (yes, even the battery!). After a few minutes, I turned it on again and keyboard was working again.
I hope you will find this article useful, it could save your heart from breaking in case you encounter this very same issue
How to copy files from PC to Dreambox
Apr 24th
You would be surprised by the amount of people searching for “ftp dreambox” words in the box at the top of this page. Hey, that’s it, just to “finally make you happy”:
1) Download an FTP client (FileZila is recommended)
2) Create a new connection profile using your Dreambox address (192.168.x.x for example), root as username and dreambox as password (some firmware have no default password set for this, so just leave it empty)
3) Connect!
Easy, isn’t it?
Handling multiple projects/repositories with one svnserve
Apr 16th
Need to handle different projects/repositories using a single SVN instance and don’t know how? Need revision numbers to be project dependent? Or you just want your repository to look cleaner?
This (LINK) article by Thomas Guest explains you exactly how to do all that stuff in a simple and elegant way!
How to open .docx files using previous Word versions
Apr 5th
Are you tired of people sending you .docx files? You can’t afford to buy latest Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office? Fear not, if you’ve got an older Office/Word (at least Office/Word 2000), you can install the following free software upgrade to let handle .docx files:
Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack
Sweet, isn’t it?
Roundcube: allow users to change their own passwords
Mar 16th
If you are running a mail server, I’m pretty sure you’ve invested some time in testing Squirrelmail or Horde in order to provide your users a web access to their emails. Both of them are rock solid, but the lack of a good looking out-of-the-box UI is starting to weight more and more in our web x.0 days.
Roundcube is an alternative, not as mature as the aforementioned, open source software released under GPL license which comes with an awesome default skin. Sadly, it still misses one important thing: the control to make user able to change their own password. But that’s your lucky day: I made a small patch to allow this in Roundcube 0.1 (stable).
Internet TV (even p2p!) streaming to Dreambox
Jan 26th
I’ve been flooded by your requests since my “Streaming live camera feed to Dreambox” article and now, finally, the time has come: you don’t have to wait anymore For those who don’t know what I’m talking about… it’s how to watch your favorite p2p internet channel on your dear Dreambox! Yeah, you can now sit on your sofa watching porn movies from the Internet on your 52” plasma 
Change Paypal language in Buy Me a Beer plugin
Jan 26th
There are so many great plugins for WordPress and Buy Me a Beer is one of them. It enables your blog users to donate you money through Paypal encouraging them with specific phrasing. One of the problems of the current Buy Me a Beer release, is that it doesn’t allow to choose the language of the Paypal donation page. To overcome this issue, here’s the trick: in buy-me-beer.php, look for $paypal_link and $paypal_contentlink variables. They should look like this:
$paypal_contentlink = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=".$options['business']."¤cy_code=".$options['currency']."&amount=".$options['amount']."&[...]
$paypal_link = "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&business=".$options['business']."¤cy_code=".$options['currency']."&amount=".$options['amount']."&return=".$options['thankspage']."&lc=US&item_name=".str_replace(" ","+",$args['title']);
And add, after the first & in each of the occurrence of the variable, the string lc=US& including the “;”. You can change the language of the page by specifying a different country code instead of US (which stands for United States, so an English page is displayed). Query your favorite search engine for a list of country codes.
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