I previously blogged about Birdsoft Battery Watch as a good status bar battery monitor for the Pocket PC platform. After some use though I realized it is not exactly optimal, it’s very prone to being obscured by other applications and sometimes just dies on its own.
Help is at hand with GSBatmonp (Authors Page) which seems to be much nicer than the Bird Soft solution. Give it a go.
Having bought a second hand iBook I was a bit worried about upgrading to Tiger, it would seriously dampen my resell value etc if it could not upgrade but based on this article I am just about in luck.
It seems the big hurdle is that you must have a DVD Reader in your Mac, its presumed this is only for installation time, but thats quite a big deal for many many people who do not have DVD drives in their machines, and as the article states upgrading a iBook is nearly impossible.
Via Geek News Central comes a link to a great list of sites that offers free Royalty Free Images.
These are images that you can use in your own projects, commercial or not, without paying for them.
Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles
I use the excellent OpenVPN for my VPN needs. Since version 2 it supports printing a nice status file of currently connected clients but unfortunately it is a bit ugly.
I wrote a simple php library that can parse this file and returns a associative array of logged in users, you can then easily display it using Smarty or whatever you use for templating.
You can download version 1.0 here you can also check out the README and a Sample that I did using Smarty.
In my previous post about 5 minutes ago I slagged off feedster.com and I wondered now if it is a Firefox thing or a Feedster thing.
So I tried a few searches with Safari, it worked better actually, nice and quick even with obscure terms which I thought wouldn’t be cached, but after a while this happened.
