Monthly Archives: April 2009

Delay email to send at a specific time

I don’t have the answer yet, but I want to build a service that allows somebody to schedule email to be sent at a certain date or time. Most importantly, it should come from their existing email address and integrate with any existing email service. The point of this post is to gauge any interest, [...]
Posted in Web dev | 11 Comments

Get 5.1 surround sound in ubuntu with Realtek ACL662

Just switched over to Ubuntu as my primary OS and been working (hard) get to get everything working properly. Still worth it thought. Anyway, one of the more difficult problems was getting 5.1 sound out of the sound card in Ubuntu. The motherboard has a built-in 5.1 sound card, the realtek ACL662. Some people have [...]
Posted in Googled, Technology | 9 Comments

Creative extigy on Mac OS X doesn’t support 5.1 surround sound

I ordered a few cables to get both my PC and powerbook hooked up to my old creative extigy sound card, hoping I could then listen to either through my 5.1 speaker set. I’d used the extigy on the mac before, and it certainly does detect it and play sound. Unfortunately I hadn’t paid much [...]
Posted in Peeves, Technology | 15 Comments

Selecting and uploading multiple files with one form element, wordpress style

We’re building a CMS at work and one of the requirements is a half decent file manager. Having seen how easy the wordpress upload tool is, we wanted to replicate it. Clients don’t want to sit there having to individually select and upload 50 files from a folder! There are a number of options available [...]
Posted in Googled, Technology, Web dev | 2 Comments

Blackberry app world (store) launches

Somebody just mentioned that the Blackberry application store launched yesterday and so I had to try it out! So far, it looks promising, but have hit a number of teething problems. Yesterday I was unable to browse the store on my phone because I was in the UK. Today I’m able to browse the store, [...]
Posted in Googled, Technology | 1 Comment
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