10 Things To Do With Moto Hint That Might Surprise You

Editor’s Note:  Emily Price  is a freelance tech journalist in San Francisco. We invited her to share her experience using  Moto Hint , a di...

Fix for Android phones running low on internal memory (without rooting)

The first, simplest and safest step is to delete dumpstate/logcat files. Dumpstate, logcat files are stored on the /data/log partition that...

Save encrypted PDF as plain / unencrypted PDF

Note: If you don't have the password for the PDF file, this post is not what you're looking for. You have a PDF file that's encr...

Add t1.micro support to ElasticFox

A lot of people, including me depend on the ElasticFox firefox plugin to interact with Amazon Web Services and its easy to see why. It has G...

Phone remains in headset mode - Fix

For those who own it, the nokia 6230i with its great form-factor, screen resolution and connectivity options is what keeps them from wanting...

Memorizing Design Patterns - the fun way

Just stumbled upon a wonderful way to memorize stuff at memorize.com Say you want to test yourself or just plain want to memorize Design Pat...

TripleDES encryption compatibility when using Java and .NET

Note: This article shows you how to generate a SecretKey to use with a TripleDES encryption cipher. The shared-secret key can be 24 byte or ...

Damn Small Linux: Install files with .dsl extension

The DamnSmallLinux live CD/USB allows you run DSL in memory. It also allows you to run apps that you download from the MyDSL repository. If...

HP Laptops with XP - Brightness buttons dont work - Fix

If you've got a new HP laptop and have formatted it (to probably get rid of the lousy Vista OS) and installed or downgraded it to XP you...

Hung Threads with BO SDK - Solution

Many developers seem to be facing the dreaded 'Hung threads' issue when they you the BO SDK in their java applications. The symptoms...

Install and configure CVS on Solaris 10

Download the appropriate binary from http://www.nongnu.org/cvs # create a "cvs" user. This user will be used to impersonate cvs...

Improve windows networking (especially if hosting webservers)

First of all, I forgive you for having to use windows to host your web server :) Now that thats out of the way, here's how you speed up...

WebSphere Process Server - File Adapter errors

Once you deploy a mediation module containing a file adapter on a websphere process server and turn on global security, things start going b...

Update files in .war and .ear directly

I have seen many applications (.war and .ear) that have their property files or resource bundles stored within the .war or .ear files. When ...

WebSphere Portal Server migration Issues - Part I

You've got WebSphere Portal Server 6.x comfortably hooked up to Oracle / Oracle RAC and then someone wants you to move to another Oracle...

Change CVS default port on Solaris 10

Changing the default port (2401) of CVS on Solaris 10 is real easy. 1. Edit your /etc/services file Change the following line: cvspserver ...

WebSphere Process Server / Portal Server with Oracle RAC

If you're thinking that you'll get out-of-the-box Oracle RAC support for an IBM WebSphere Process Server or Portal Server installlat...

Java - Create Zip file in memory

I find myself writing and rewriting this piece of code whenever I want to zip a set of files (in memory) and return the zipped file back as ...

iMac - Dual boot Mac OS X and Win XP with Shared Drive

You've just got an iMAC; you want to dual boot it with XP; you want a shared partition where both, Mac and XP can read/write; you've...

Problem accessing Gmail using Nokia 6320i or any S40 v2,v3 phone

...well, not any more! Nokia's S40 v2 and v3 phones dont have a way to specify a proxy for an 'Access Point' configuration that ...