Murphy’s Law was in full bloom recently when our home PC’s hard drive started to fail and my server’s drive just locked up cold one day. Thus began the great computer fix-up of 2003 for the Cantoni household. Step One: New hard drive storage for the server.
I've been meaning to do more playing with Bluetooth capabilities of my Palm Tungsten T3 (other than just connecting to another Palm device), so I finally bought a Belkin F8T001 USB Bluetooth adapter (available on Buy.com for about $40 with free shipping). Installing the Belkin software on my Win2000 system was straightforward, as was pairing my device with the desktop. What was not easy to figure out what sharing the internet connection so I can run e-mail and web browser on the Tungsten. The Belkin software wizard led me to turn on Internet Connection Sharing within Windows, but it gave…
Google recently launched a beta of the Google Deskbar which “enables you to search with Google from any application without lifting your fingers from the keyboard.” This type of utility is quite useful and allows you to quickly do a search without first bringing up a browser window. In fact, there is already an excellent tool that does this: Dave's Quick Search Deskbar. Both apps install into the desktop taskbar, providing a field for search entry. When not in use, Dave's will show the full date/time while Google shows a small Google logo. Dave's can be customized with XML files…
From Gizmodo, I learned about Reiter's Camera Phone Report which is a weblog dedicated to wireless digital photography. Among his recent http://www.ordergenericpropeciaonline.com posts is one about companies forcing handset vendors to remove cameras in phones due to security concerns.
I continue to get a fair number of web server “404 Not Found” errors on my site (caused by users requesting documents that aren't found). I strive to minimize such errors when making changes to the site, so normally I read through the server logs to find anything that needs to be fixed. To make this process easier, I recently installed a custom 404 error handler in PHP based on Harold Bakker's Mail on 404 script. This script will send you an e-mail message anytime a 404 error is generated on the server. I modified it slightly to also send…