Monthly Archives: July 2011

Self-Contained File Upload Webapp

If you run your own server and seek a simple web interface to upload files to your server here’s an easy-to-install web app: http://www.pipasoft.com/filenabber/
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Anatomy of the Mobile Market

This infographic puts many things in perspective. For example, everyone claims that Nokia and RIM are finished. Right, except that their combined market share worldwide is still a staggering 70%! Edit: Related article about China being the second large iPhone app market
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How to Fix A BlackBerry Device That Keeps Restarting

In my experience this is usually caused by a misbehaving application. To fix it: Start the phone in Safe Mode Remove the offending app Restart the phone normally
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Twitter Library for Java

For many websites and bloggers social networks are the biggest source of incoming traffic, beating Google (OK, beating search engines). Whilst it’s easy to see the value of embracing social networks, it’s not straightforward to actually do it. The biggest problem stems from poor documentation. I don’t mind making low level HTTP connections, but I [...]
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