Archive for March, 2010
Books for sale – Linux Shell, Qmail Handbook and SSL/TLS
Posted by Alex Costa in Books, Itechlog News, Linux, Programming on March 26th, 2010
I have selling on Amazon.co.uk a copy of each of the following books: Linux Shell Scripting with Bash (Paperback) (SOLD) by Ken O. Burtch (Author) Linux Shell Scripting with Bash will help you learn to not only get your system up and running quickly by employing the Bash shell, but it will also show you [...]
reCAPTCHA error
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips on March 25th, 2010
Today I had a few complaints from users not being able to download PDFs from one of the sites I manage. Users were not able to get beyond the registration page which kept hanging due to an error on reCAPTCHA. The error caused the $rep->is_valid to return null. I am not sure if the problem [...]
Changing your YouTube video thumbnail
Posted by itechlog.admin in Easy Tips, ITechFeed on March 23rd, 2010
Is it possible to change a YouTube video thumbnail? The thumbnail is a still frame that represents your video. When you upload a video to YouTube, it generates 3 still images from the video to be used as thumbnails, interesting enough the default image appears to be the second still. You can use this tool [...]
The future of gaming is OpenGL
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Linux, Open Source on March 11th, 2010
As a Linux user and Open Source enthusiast I always want to see people moving away from the proprietary stuff and into the Open Source world, but sometimes it’s easier to keep them where they are (stuck to Windows), specially when it comes to gaming. I am not a gamer, and would rather spend my [...]
Request the Audible.com books application for Android
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Mobile Phones on March 11th, 2010
I am deeply shocked at audible.com for not having an app for Android. They claim that “the Android media player does not allow playback of our titles“… right. Anyway they are now attempting to get the ball rolling for an App for Android in 2010. There’s a signup for upcoming beta testing on their website [...]
