Win two copies of myPhoneDesktop

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

I've mentioned myPhoneDesktop before, including listing it as one my best apps from 2010. It is, by far, my favorite way to send information to my iPad or iPod touch (works with iPhone, too): URLs, codes, phone numbers, anything that I need to get from my…

11 February 2011

Learning to write JavaScript

Planet Mozilla

So now that I work at Mozilla, I figured it was time to develop a “web app” just to make sure I understood it all. And since my team is working on educational resources for web developers, I wanted to see what it was like to learn how to use some of them…

10 February 2011

Using mod_disk_cache with MediaWiki

Planet GNOME

(Photo: LifeSupercharger)MediaWiki is a pretty fast piece of software out of the box. It's written in PHP and covers a lot of features, so it can't serve pages in 0 time, but it's reasonably well written and allows use of PHP accelerators or caches in most…

9 February 2011

From the Lab: How we test hard drives

Macworld

We at Macworld are always looking to improve and streamline our product testing, and as hard drives boast bigger storage capacity and increasingly faster transfer times, our editors and interns at Macworld are updating the way we test these devices in our…

9 February 2011

How to create labels with Pages

Macworld

Pages doesn’t ship with any built-in label templates, but it’s actually easy to create and use standard labels with the program if you know a few tricks.

9 February 2011

Sparrow mail application now available in the Mac App Store

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Sparrow announced today that version 1.0 of its popular email application is now available in the Mac App Store. The developers listened to customer feedback and dropped the price from US$25 to a much lower $9.99. The paid version is free of…

9 February 2011

Book Review: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

Slashdot

eggyknap writes "Thanks in large part to the oft-hyped 'NoSQL' movement, database performance has received a great deal of press in the past few years. Organizations large and small have replaced their traditional relational database applications with new…

9 February 2011

Aggregation by proxy, part 1

Planet Mozilla

(I was tempted to call this Integration by Parts, but I think the other calculus fans reading Planet Mozilla would raise a pitchfork or two.) In my last blog entry, I talked briefly about an idea I had: > Aggregation by proxy, though, means you could daisy…

8 February 2011

Jonathan McDowell: My Squeeze upgrade notes

Planet Debian

I did my first upgrade of a lenny box to squeeze today; a test server in work. All went pretty smoothly but I had a handful of things I had to frob manually that I thought I’d write up here: * collectd SNMP plugin needs MIBs or it won’t start: installed…

8 February 2011