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Another deep point in apple appstore approval policy was reached. Google’s Voice application was blocked out. Of course Apple claims it’s “because the app duplicates functions that an Apple app already has”. But there are no doubts that this is not true. The real reason for blocking out another great application are very likely business [...]

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I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to align the charts datatips to the axis ticks/labels. The solution wasn’t too difficult: I had to set the axis’s labelUnit/dataUnit as well as the dataInterval to the same value (in my case month) I had to set the axis’s displayLocalTime property to true, so [...]

When Apple brought out iPhone OS 3.0 they broke all applications that relied on direct access to the camera stream or to camera controls for no obvious reason. 100.000′s of buyers of such tools lost their money and developers weren’t accepted again as the loss of such great apps like CameraPro, NightCam (ex steady shot) [...]

Notes to self: Porticus: To get your port/porticus installation  back running use “Ports -> refresh port list” to get rid of old entries. Porticus: If compiling modules fail, you likely forgot to install the Apple developer tools, get yourself X-Code from the mac installer discs – or if you are iPhone developer, use the iPhone [...]

Open the Cofiguration dialog using “run->external tools configuration”. Open the JRE tab Click on “installed VM’s” button double click the active entry add “-Xms768m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m” to the field “Default VM Arguments” if you still get out of memory errors try to set higher values in step 5.

It’s surprisingly simple. Here the major steps: 1. Setup basic Drupal 6.2 installation aside of Joomla installation. You only need the Joomla DB for the conversion and can delete the files if you want. 2. Open Drupal Admin Area, go to Administer->Site building -> Modules and enable the Profile module by enabling the checkbox then [...]

Ever needed to test on a virtual host but with a custom php.ini and a custom user? You didn’t want to setup a complete new server in a virtual machine? You can configure apache to use custom users/ini files by adding the suphp-module: http://www.suphp.org/ Download + setup took me about 15 minutes. WARNING: Do not [...]

Since I received several mails from people that were searching for the windows binary of QT-Faststart but couldn’t find it… here a binary that works: http://notboring.org/downloads/video/qt-faststart.zip This tool was *not* written by me, say thanks to the author that can be found at http://multimedia.cx/eggs/improving-qt-faststart/.