How to backup / restore a paid Android app’s SQLite database without root
On a non-rooted Android phone, it is not possible to read a paid app’s data folder from adb, as the /mnt/asec directory …
The Dress – Simple Trick To See It In Blue and Black
The Internet went nuts this week over debates on the colour of a dress. While the original colour of the dress is …
Personalized Birthday Doodles – A nice touch
Google puts a lot of effort into the doodles on their homepage. Every once in a while, there was even one that I really …
Zimbra and Postfix Policyd (cbpolicyd)
I was looking for a way to throttle the number of emails sent / received per account per hour on Zimbra servers. …
IE 11 and Standards – Oh the Sweet Irony!
Internet Explorer is any web developer’s worst nightmare. Developers would spend months building and perfecting the greatest website in the world, all …
Nadella and Elop Pen Memos Joey Style!
The tech world has been ablaze with the news that Microsoft is putting 18,000 jobs or about 14% of their workforce on …
Switching to a Mac isn’t easy
For as far back as I could remember, I have always preferred Linux on my PCs. Linux is just so much better …
Block entire countries on Ubuntu server with Xtables and GeoIP
Anyone who has administered even a moderately high traffic server will have noticed that certain unwelcome traffic such as port scans and …
Bootstrap Progress Bar Component for Tapestry 5
Here is a quick and dirty bootstrap progress bar component designed to be used with the tapestry-bootstrap project. The component provides a …
TurboTax Sucks or: How I Got a Bigger Refund with SimpleTax
‘Tis that time of the year again, when a weekend is spent by the entire nation in frantically trying to scrape all …