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iPhone copy & paste revisited

techpop admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:33:47 +0000

Following on from my old iPhone Copy and Paste blog. It looks like Copy & Paste will now function on the iPhone:

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Cut and Paste for iPhone from Cali Lewis on Vimeo.

Mysql Database Size

techpop admin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:45:42 +0000

Easy enough to do and this method will return the result in Kilo Bytes (KB).
Just change directory to your MySQL folder where the databases are stored (the following is a common location):

cd /var/lib/mysql

and perform the command

du -sk *

Hey presto it will return a list of database names and a tab after it will have the size in KB.

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YouTube user feeds

techpop admin — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:52:31 +0000

You can access a specific user’s feed this way:

feed://www.youtube.com/rss/user/[YouTube-Username]/videos.rss

More info on YouTube RSS feeds here.

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iPhone cut copy paste

techpop admin — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:10:18 +0000

The iPhone as many owners will realize is lacking one core feature and that is to cut, copy and paste. You can do a lot of Google searching on this but you won’t come up with anything more than a lot of rubbish about “how a cut copy paste function might work”, really it is pointless, trust me, I have tried. The best thing all of us iPhone “testers” can hope for is an inclusion of the feature in an update.

Notice how I say that we’re testers? That’s right, there’s no way this lil sucker should be out of beta… But oh, wait it’s been released a few months before December holidays, coincidence, I think not.

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Unix directory compression

techpop admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:34:42 +0000

The tar command is all you need to compress a directory for archiving and it does two things:

It create the archive, and,
It compress the archive

Usage of the tar command is as follows:

tar + switches + archive name + source directory

The switches really aren’t that complex, you pretty much always use -zcvf but just so you kow, here is an explanation of each switch:

z: Compress archive using gzip program
c: Create archive
v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
f: Archive File name

For example, you have directory called /home/techpop/data and you would like to compress this directory then you can type tar command as follows:

tar -zcvf data-1-dec-2007.tar.gz /home/techpop/data

Above command will create an archive file called data-1-dec-2007.tar.gz in current directory.
That’s it - I’m sure you’ll agree that’s very straight forward. For more information about GNU tar software, check here.

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How to buy an expiring domain name

techpop admin — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:11:25 +0000

I could have summarized a great post by Mike Davidson about how to snap up a domain name that is expiring but rather than do that I thought he should get credit for it an thus, here is a like to his post entitled how to snatch an expiring domain.

It’s not just about waiting for the 75 days AFTER the domain expiration date and you’re not guaranteed to get the domain by simply placing an order in Godaddy.

You really should check this post and understand the process.

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Simple as pie?

techpop admin — Thu, 20 Mar 2003 23:14:32 +0000

You would think that, but you’d be wrong.

Color schemes aren’t easy to integrate into a theme. Scheme to a theme and tweak and duck and shoot. That’s how you do it. Know what I mean?

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