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Google Voice and Gmail play nice to deliver telephone to pc calls

Eddie — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:50:00 +0000

You may have seen the news recently that Gmail can not place calls to your contacts through the use of a browser plugin, and google voice’s VOIP infrastructure. All you need is a headset or microphone for your PC to send calls. But the best part is the flip side — calls to my Google [...]

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Getting IP addresses for remote nodes

Eddie — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:14:07 +0000

I recently had the need to get the ip address for a remote node. Wait, scratch that.. I had to get the IP addresses for about 60 remote nodes. You’re right… I probably could have typed nslookup targetNode 60 times. But I am a programmer! SO I decided to pass my choir off to a [...]

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Passing Parameters with h:commandLink in JSF

Eddie — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:47:57 +0000

I have been growing fond of JSF as of late, but was stumped by the simplest task. How do I associate some value with a link? If I was using PHP I would just append a query parameter and grab the value. But with JSF it’s all done inside our xhtml files, so how do [...]

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Script to Backup Files (with Version History) Before Editing

Eddie — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:02:41 +0000

Editing config files is the only certain thing above taxes and death (too lame?). Whether it's your apache setup, or dns bindings its likely you use vi or another favorite editor to open your server's files, make that needed update and save. If you were good you copied the file first to a backup tagged by date. .. But managing that process manually is just a workflow annoyance. So the script below backups the file, tags it with the date, and opens it for edit. Additionally you can set a maximum number of versions to track any given day. It adds no more effort than calling vi..

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Details for the HTC EVO root

Eddie — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:01:04 +0000

Everyone is posting the video that shows a rooted HTC EVO, but no one has details. The main reason is a lack of information for the hack author themselves.. But to understand from the source why the details aren’t forthcoming, see this forum post that highlights the details, and links to the hacker’s site. Here’s [...]

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Wireless Tethering for Android Phones

Eddie — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:41:38 +0000

As many of you already know, Google announed during their second IO Keynote on Thursday that the latest version of Android (2.2 – Froyo) to start shipping will include WiFi tethering – or hotspots. This feature allows you to share your mobile phone’s connection with any nearby computer – and its completely legit Phone carriers [...]

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QueueMan – Netflix manager for Android to see major updates

Eddie — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:47:17 +0000

I am feverishly working to entirely refactor QueueMan in order to introduce long awaited features

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Plugins for a Full Featured WordPress Content Manager

Eddie — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:06:05 +0000

More and more clients are asking for dynamic sites that allow them to edit specials and pages at will. This is great because it surely means they will come back for more questions and changes as they use the site. (read : more income). What they want are CMS, or content management systems. What I [...]

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Backup all sub-directories with a Bash array loop

Eddie — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:02:05 +0000

I manage lots of domains, and offer my clients free backup and recovery service. Nice selling perk, but I best be damn sure I am backing things up regularly. Since there is no way my space-cadet brain would remember that, I rely on my ‘nix friends: bash, cron and tar to neatly package every sub-directory [...]

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T-Mobile G1 to ADP (Android Developer Phone)

Eddie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:24:40 +0000

I know G1's are locked, hence I took the action as a good citizen and called T-Mobile. Turns out if you have the phone for 90 days then they will just give you the Unlock Code. So I naively thought that would allow me to wipe the phone, and run sans sim. Wrong. I ended up with a useless piece of hardware that would do nothing but report the absence of a sim card.

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