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Hide Google Ads on Ning Social Networking

May 12th, 2008 by Alex Costa · 26 Comments

You can hide the Google Ads on your personal page in Ning. Ning is a Social Networking platform where you can create your own Social Networking site. Well you could say it’s mean to hide the ads that will generate income for the creators and I sympathize with that but let me tell why [...]

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Tags: Applications · Citizen Journalism · Social Networking · Web Design · quick & easy tips



Computer Hygiene

May 1st, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

The BBC Technology site has published an interesting article on computer hygiene. Tests were carried out on computer keyboards by the Consumer Group Which? and the results were astonishing (not to say scary). Some keyboards carried more bacteria than a toiled sit.
Here is a small extract from the article:
“If you look at what grows on [...]

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Tags: Citizen Journalism · Lifestyle

SugarCRM Error “IMAP won’t work without c-client”

April 25th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

This error will cripple Sugar’s email functionality, which is a major development in version 5.0, previous versions of SugarCRM Community Edition (free) did not handle emails at all. This error happens when the php5-imap extension hasn’t been installed. After searching for sometime I found a reference to php5-imap and decided to give it [...]

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Tags: Applications · OS & Servers · Tutorials / Training · quick & easy tips



SugarCRM Upgrade Error

April 23rd, 2008 by Alex Costa · 1 Comment

Upgrading SugarCRM Community Edition from 4.5 to 5.0 is supposed to be a walk in the park, and if you do have the right settings it will be. As in IT everything depends on the little details, SugarCRm wouldn’t be different. Don’t get me wrong I really like SugarCRM that’s why I post errors [...]

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Tags: Applications · OS & Servers · quick & easy tips

SugarCRM installation error “MySQL not available”

April 22nd, 2008 by Alex Costa · 1 Comment

While moving a SugarCRM installation to a different server I found this problem – “MySQL not available”. Firstly I had a blank page and then decide to re-run the installation script. During the system check it listed MySQL as not available, so I checked for the status of the mysql server and it was running. [...]

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Tags: Applications · OS & Servers · Programming · quick & easy tips

Brazillian enthusiast modder bullied by Creative Labs

April 19th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Daniel_K, the Creative Labs fan who fixed the company’s broken Vista sound card drivers only to be threatened by the corporate brass, shares his side of the story.
“My name is Daniel Kawakami and I’m Brazilian,” he writes. “I’m NOT a cracker, a hacker, just an enthusiast modder with basic assembly knowledge and very persistent.”
Kawakami’s expertise [...]

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Tags: Citizen Journalism · Technology