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Entries Tagged as 'Applications'

Hide Google Ads on Ning Social Networking

May 12th, 2008 by Alex Costa · 3 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



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 · No Comments

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 · No Comments

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

Saving default as .doc in Openoffice

April 20th, 2008 by dcouper · No Comments

I have always thought OpenOffice was a great tool to use - but have been continually frustrated at it saving in the open office format by default, so after some searching and tinkering I found a way to make all the openoffice applications default save into their microsoft equivilent. The best resource I found was [...]

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Tags: Applications

ReBlog - republish interesting posts from other blogs

April 11th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Sometimes I wish I could create a blog where I can republish interesting posts and articles I find on the net, with my comments and thoughts added to it. But I want to do it in a way that the credits for the post go to the owner.
With ReFeed and the ReBlog plugin for wordpress [...]

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Tags: Applications · Technology · Tutorials / Training · quick & easy tips