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  <title>gadgets gizmos geeks</title>
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  <updated>2008-08-20T22:19:40+00:00</updated>
  <entry>
    <title>An alternative to paypal..</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://johnjones.org/node/43" />
    <id>http://johnjones.org/node/43</id>
    <published>2011-03-09T21:09:56+00:00</published>
    <updated>2011-03-09T21:09:56+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>John Jones</name>
    </author>
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
    <summary type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Well today after getting rightly annoyed with paypal, I found this service <a href="https://www.moneybookers.com/app/?rid=21373811">Moneybookers</a> they look to do all the same stuff as paypal, but seem to allow me to verify my bank account, something that paypal would not allow, as they said my bank did not allow direct debits (now I know my bank does do direct debits, as I see the monies go out of my account each month)</p>
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    <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Well today after getting rightly annoyed with paypal, I found this service <a href="https://www.moneybookers.com/app/?rid=21373811">Moneybookers</a> they look to do all the same stuff as paypal, but seem to allow me to verify my bank account, something that paypal would not allow, as they said my bank did not allow direct debits (now I know my bank does do direct debits, as I see the monies go out of my account each month)</p>
<p>Also it will tie easily into my magneto shop that I am developing, so <a href="https://www.moneybookers.com/app/?rid=21373811">Moneybookers</a> looks like  a good service, check them out by clicking this <a href="https://www.moneybookers.com/app/?rid=21373811">link</a></p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Magento theme, one of the best I have found</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://johnjones.org/node/42" />
    <id>http://johnjones.org/node/42</id>
    <published>2011-02-22T15:47:35+00:00</published>
    <updated>2011-02-22T15:47:35+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>John Jones</name>
    </author>
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
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  <entry>
    <title>online accountants for limited companies</title>
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    <published>2011-02-08T09:22:11+00:00</published>
    <updated>2011-02-08T09:22:11+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>John Jones</name>
    </author>
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
    <summary type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Got told of a new accountancy service, that allows you to interact completely through their web <a href="http://www.crunch.co.uk?a_aid=race-it">site</a> there are other services around on the internet, but this <a href="http://www.crunch.co.uk?a_aid=race-it">one</a> has been the only one that I have seen sofar that does the end of year filings as well as the VAT submissions, you can create a demo account <a href="http://www.crunch.co.uk?a_aid=race-it">here</a></p>
<p>Its been done with contractors in mind, but will work for any limited company.</p>
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    <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Got told of a new accountancy service, that allows you to interact completely through their web <a href="http://www.crunch.co.uk?a_aid=race-it">site</a> there are other services around on the internet, but this <a href="http://www.crunch.co.uk?a_aid=race-it">one</a> has been the only one that I have seen sofar that does the end of year filings as well as the VAT submissions, you can create a demo account <a href="http://www.crunch.co.uk?a_aid=race-it">here</a></p>
<p>Its been done with contractors in mind, but will work for any limited company.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Creating apple notification certificates</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://johnjones.org/node/39" />
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    <published>2010-12-16T14:15:02+00:00</published>
    <updated>2010-12-16T14:15:02+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>John Jones</name>
    </author>
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
    <summary type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>To get started with APNS you need to generate an certificate unique to each applications which will support APNS. You need to log into your iPhone developer portal with “Team Agent” access. Only users with “Team Agent” access can do the below mentioned process. The iPhone developer portal with “Team Agent ” has a detailed steps to generate an APNS certificate. You should be able to see the screen shown below in the portal to start creating your APNS certificate. Follow the steps mentioned below:-</p>
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    <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>To get started with APNS you need to generate an certificate unique to each applications which will support APNS. You need to log into your iPhone developer portal with “Team Agent” access. Only users with “Team Agent” access can do the below mentioned process. The iPhone developer portal with “Team Agent ” has a detailed steps to generate an APNS certificate. You should be able to see the screen shown below in the portal to start creating your APNS certificate. Follow the steps mentioned below:-</p>
<p>(1) You need to create an App ID without .* in the iPhone developer Portal. An App ID without .* means its unique and works only for a single application<br />
(2) Generate a certificate signing request from your Mac’s keychain (You should be an Team Agent to have access to the wizard shown in Figure 1) as shown in figure 2 and save to disk<br />
(3) Upload the CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest to the Program Portal<br />
(4) Wait for the generation of cert (about 1 min). Download the certificate (aps_developer_identity.cer) from the Program Portal<br />
(5) Keep (or rename them if you want) these 2 files (steps 2 and 4) in a safe place. You might need the CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest file to request a production cert in the future or renew it again.<br />
(6) Suppose you have imported the aps_developer_identity.cer to the keychain. Then you have to export these new cert and the private key of this cert (not the public key) and saved as .p12 files.<br />
(7) Then you use these commands to generate the cert and key in Mac’s Terminal for PEM format (Privacy Enhanced Mail Security Certificate)<br />
openssl pkcs12 -clcerts -nokeys -out cert.pem -in cert.p12<br />
openssl pkcs12 -nocerts -out key.pem -in key.p12<br />
(8) The cert.pem and key.pem files will be used by your own program communicating with APNS.<br />
(9) If you want to remove the passphase of private key in key.pem, do this<br />
openssl rsa -in key.pem -out key.unencrypted.pem<br />
Then combine the certificate and key<br />
cat cert.pem key.unencrypted.pem &gt; ck.pem<br />
But please set the file permission of this unencrypted key by using chmod 400 and is only readable by root in a sever configuration.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>installing memcache on centos through yum</title>
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    <published>2009-09-16T09:56:37+00:00</published>
    <updated>2009-09-16T11:09:46+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>John Jones</name>
    </author>
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
    <summary type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><a href="http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-memcached-redhat-or-centos" title="http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-memcached-redhat-or-centos">http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-memcached-redhat-or-centos</a><br />
Also upgrading php to v5.2 on centos JSON is the issue on 5.1.6 (issue is its not supported till 5.2)<br />
<a href="http://bluhaloit.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/installing-php-52x-on-redhat-es5-centos-5-etc/" title="http://bluhaloit.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/installing-php-52x-on-redhat-es5-centos-5-etc/">http://bluhaloit.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/installing-php-52x-on-redhat-e...</a></p>
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    <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><a href="http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-memcached-redhat-or-centos" title="http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-memcached-redhat-or-centos">http://www.lullabot.com/articles/installing-memcached-redhat-or-centos</a></p>
<p>Also upgrading php to v5.2 on centos JSON is the issue on 5.1.6 (issue is its not supported till 5.2)</p>
<p><a href="http://bluhaloit.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/installing-php-52x-on-redhat-es5-centos-5-etc/" title="http://bluhaloit.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/installing-php-52x-on-redhat-es5-centos-5-etc/">http://bluhaloit.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/installing-php-52x-on-redhat-e...</a></p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Largest file in the disk for unix</title>
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    <published>2009-07-02T14:22:26+00:00</published>
    <updated>2009-07-02T14:22:26+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>John Jones</name>
    </author>
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
    <summary type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30599&amp;seqNum=4" title="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30599&amp;seqNum=4">http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30599&amp;seqNum=4</a></p>
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    <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30599&amp;seqNum=4" title="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30599&amp;seqNum=4">http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=30599&amp;seqNum=4</a></p>
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    <title>Going racing...</title>
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    <published>2009-03-26T18:01:59+00:00</published>
    <updated>2009-04-26T01:21:26+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>John Jones</name>
    </author>
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
    <summary type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Well to make more of my love for cars, I am going to racing a car in a racing series this year.<br />
The championship is called the BMWRDC (<a href="http://www.bmwrdc.com" title="www.bmwrdc.com">www.bmwrdc.com</a>) and my car is being prepared by myself (apart from the cage as I need it to have a certificate)<br />
You can see the progress here <a href="http://www.going-racing.com/blog/" title="www.going-racing.com/blog/">www.going-racing.com/blog/</a> for the build diary.</p>
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    <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Well to make more of my love for cars, I am going to racing a car in a racing series this year.</p>
<p>The championship is called the BMWRDC (<a href="http://www.bmwrdc.com" title="www.bmwrdc.com">www.bmwrdc.com</a>) and my car is being prepared by myself (apart from the cage as I need it to have a certificate)</p>
<p>You can see the progress here <a href="http://www.going-racing.com/blog/" title="www.going-racing.com/blog/">www.going-racing.com/blog/</a> for the build diary.</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Putting firefox into developer mode.</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://johnjones.org/node/27" />
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    <published>2009-03-18T11:13:33+00:00</published>
    <updated>2009-03-18T11:13:33+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>John Jones</name>
    </author>
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
    <summary type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Putting the following in a browser url bar, can put the page into a editable mode.<br />
javascript: document.body.contentEditable = 'true'; document.designMode = 'on'; void 0</p>
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    <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Putting the following in a browser url bar, can put the page into a editable mode.</p>
<p>javascript: document.body.contentEditable = 'true'; document.designMode = 'on'; void 0</p>
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  <entry>
    <title>Apple Reinvents the Phone with iPhone</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://johnjones.org/2007/01/apple_reinvents_the_phone_with.html" />
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    <published>2007-01-09T00:00:00+00:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-20T22:19:40+00:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Anonymous</name>
    </author>
    <category term="apple" />
    <category term="gadgets gizmos geeks" />
    <summary type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Announced today during a keynote speach at the Macworld conference in San Francisco, is the new iPhone, this looks to be the most advanced phone that you can buy today, with full widescreen video capability, smartphone and music player.<br />
Technical Specifications are as follows</p>
<ul>
<li>Screen size - 3.5 inches</li>
<li>Screen resolution - 320 by 480 at 160 ppi</li>
<li>Input method - Multi-touch</li>
<li>Operating system - OS X</li>
<li>Storage - 4GB or 8GB</li>
</ul>
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    <content type="xhtml"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Announced today during a keynote speach at the Macworld conference in San Francisco, is the new iPhone, this looks to be the most advanced phone that you can buy today, with full widescreen video capability, smartphone and music player.</p>
<p>Technical Specifications are as follows</p>
<ul>
<li>Screen size - 3.5 inches</li>
<li>Screen resolution - 320 by 480 at 160 ppi</li>
<li>Input method - Multi-touch</li>
<li>Operating system - OS X</li>
<li>Storage - 4GB or 8GB</li>
<li>GSM - Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)</li>
<li>Wireless data - Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0</li>
<li>Camera - 2.0 megapixels</li>
<li>Battery
<ul>
<li>Up to 5 hoursTalk / Video / Browsing</li>
<li>Up to 16 hoursAudio playback</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Dimensions - 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm</li>
<li>Weight - 4.8 ounces / 135 grams</li>
</ul>
<p>The iPhone has impressive wireless features this should definatly put one over the Microsoft Zune.</p>
<p>The only problem that can be seen at this time is its not available until the forth quarter 2007 in the UK, the americans get a better deal and it should be available in the states from June with a 2 year contract on the Cingular network.</p>
<p>The questions that come immediatly to mind is is the new iPhone locked to a network, if so how can it be unlocked.</p>
<p>For more information on the <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone">iPhone on the Apple site</a></p>
<p>At the same day apple also announced the availability of the Apple TV (a media player for your tv that can interface with the iTunes store and stream content like movies to your existing TV)  The Apple TV has a inbuilt 40gb harddisk for storing the media, and a version of frontrow that is easy for everybody to use. Although unlike the iPhone the Apple TV is available during Febuary 2007</p>
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