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Squid3 Patch – Normalize Accept-Encoding Header

Posted on April 8, 2011 | No Comments
If you don’t strip Accept-Encoding, you might want to normalize this important Http Header to make sure your cache doesn’t get flooded with multiple identical copies. Why? Squid takes the...
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online internet service and website monitoring and check comparison

Posted on October 14, 2010 | 2 Comments
I need a monitoring service which is constantly checking the services of mine which I offer to my clients. I want to be the first who knows about an outage...
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DropBox down for hours!

Posted on October 6, 2010 | No Comments
On 5th of October 2010 – exactly the time when i decided to go for it (18:00-22:00 GMT) – dropbox had a massive outage of nearly all services. At least...
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A Simple Thin Line animated with jQuery and CSS

Posted on October 5, 2010 | No Comments
If you need a Solution to display an animated Line (e.g. to visualize a Countdown) don’t search for jQuery Plugins like timer360. It’s easier to do it yourself. Our finished...
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Xmarks Service ends – Lessons learned and next Steps

Posted on September 29, 2010 | No Comments
Xmarks will be shutting down it’s free browser synchronization services on January 10, 2011. A short email with a huge impact. Before we are searching for a new (free) Sync...
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Convert H.264/MKV Files to iPhone/iPad without Re-Encoding

Posted on September 29, 2010 | No Comments
H.264 (Mpeg4) Videos are mainly stored in a Container called MKV. But iPhones, iPads and other Devices can’t play this Container Format – but they can play H.264. One way...
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apple’s upcoming stroke: iphone 4G

Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
what the hell are all the manufacturers doing? while apple issues a new generation of it’s revolutionary iphone every single year, others like nokia are not even trying to come...
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wordpress xml google maps plugin

Posted on February 10, 2010 | 5 Comments
some guys are tracking their routes with their navigation systems, as most of them offer this feature. you ride the route and the device is logging the actual way you...
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iphone 3.1.2 baseband (firmware) 05.11.07 jailbreak and unlock tutorial

Posted on February 6, 2010 | 1 Comment
there is just too many informations and blog posts out there about this topic! here is the case: the iphone: apple iphone 3g 16gb white (bought 2008) with sim-lock (to...
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cable salad 2.0: bluelounge’s cablebox

Posted on February 1, 2010 | No Comments
hide your cables, your knots, your power supplies and your bunch of splitters! ok, to be honest, this is a not rocket science. it is just another overpriced thingy –...
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