Until version 4.1, MySQL tables were encoded with the latin1 character set. By default, the character set is now utf8. This is a good thing in terms of non-latin character support, but if you’re upgrading from an older database you may run into a lot of character encoding problems. I’ve recently migrated several older databases […]
Good news from the Windows Vista Team: Today we’re publishing at the Microsoft Download Center a recommended final compatibility update for users of Windows Vista and the Apple iPod; this same update will be automatically available via Windows Update on Tuesday 22 May. The release is for users worldwide and works with the latest version […]
Fans of Jesse Vig’s GeoGreeting (profiled here for Valentine’s Day) might want to check back in to send a Mother’s Day greeting on Sunday. Jesse wrote in to let us know that somebody found a building with a really cool flower design, so I added a temporary flower emoticon in honor of Mother’s Day. A […]
The Openchange project’s libmapi looks really promising. It’s an open source MAPI implementation that allows you to talk to an Exchange server from your own code. The OpenChange MAPI library aims to provide interoperability with an Open Source implementation of Microsoft Exchange protocols under UNIX/Linux. The current implementation offers a client-side library which can be […]
To track running/jogging distances I’ve tried all the wrist based GPS units and I’m not really that interested in the iTunes Nike product yet – So for now, I’m using the (free) Gmaps pedometer. You usually know where you start and where you turn around, so it’s as accurate as it needs to be for […]
WikipediaFS is a Linux virtual file system that allows you to interact with Wikipedia as if it were a typical directory on your machine. This means you can view and edit Wikipedia entries with a normal text editor like vi. WikipediaFS can be configured to work with any MediaWiki-based site, so this makes it a […]
The Windows Mobile 6 update for the T-Mobile Dash is out, and with it comes support for viewing and editing Word and Excel documents. What it lacks, however, is a simple “new document” feature for either of these. Paul at MoDaCo has released a package to solve this problem; it adds icons for New Excel […]
