Hi,

recently building a app i was need to suggest data to the user when trying to fill a input. so i look for a js script for this. i usually use mootools for my development in js, so looking for a plugin i found this: Meio.Autocomplete plugin for mootools

is a really nice plugin, between their features, support the inbuilt ajax calls using the Request.JSON method from the mootools framework. also support to set up filter for the returned data, the set of field parameter to look for the input by the user, the minimum of characters that the user need to enter to start looking for it, delay between the ajax call and the search in the data and many other properties. you can also customize the look and feel of how the options are displayed.

from their web page you can download the source code and the compressed version for production environments. also there you can see plenty of documentation explaining each property of the plugin and several examples to see and try online.

i hope it help you in some way

Regards,

Shadow.

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Hi,

if you are looking a easy way to root your android phone, i found this app yesterday:

Universal androot. the app let you root or unroot the phone with 1 tap. it do not work with all phone (in mine, motorola backflip didn’t worked) but there are success case in several HTC and motorola phone, in almost all android versions.

you can download it from here

i hope it help you in some way

Regards,

Shadow.

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jolicloud starting screen

Hi,

recently i saw several new linux powered distributions come up oriented for the end-user, so i wanted to test them to see if the linux OS made some progress in the way to get closer to the common user, those users that just know how to turn on the computer, send a email and check their facebook. between those new distributions, are the ubuntu netbook with the unity interface, meego and jolicloud, that has been a while with us and i wanted to make a test today. i tried to test the other 2 this days but none of them worked on a virtual machine, so when i have some time to try it in a real computer, i get it tested.

What is jolicloud

Jolicloud is a linux based operating system, oriented to the web services. the aim of the os is to make the use of a computer painless and easy to use, and also make it full integrated to the web, with integration with facebook, twitter, google, dropbox etc..

after the jump can see the rest

First start

Jolicloud come in 1 ISO image, in the image come a installation mode and a live mode. the installation setup is like any linux distribution, the common 7 steps where you select your location, time etc..

after you installed it or started it in live mode, you will get a register and login screen like the one below:

jolicloud login phase

the OS is deeply focused for the web, this also mean’s that you can’t use whiteout a internet conecction. as you see in the screen, you can create a new account or login with facebook.

jolicloud register form

the registration form is pretty simple, ask for the basic information and then send you a confirmation email to activate your account. is funny that you need a second computer to complete the registry phase like there is no way to access to your webmail under the jolicloud to click on the activation link (the form is based on chrome, so a simple link to open gmail, hotmail etc.. is a easy and handy thing to do)

once that you already registered the account and activate it, you can log in and start using it. the first thing you will see is not the common desk, you will see a dashboard with a normal gnome top bar and then a second bar with option as system settings, package manager etc.. and as last, the available app’s as big icons, in a easy user access.

jolicloud dashboard

the GUI is very clean and professional, is easy to find items and access to the different features of the OS.

App manager and common use

as i said, jolicloud is very web oriented so it comes with several “apps” as programs links that basically launch a fullcreen version of chromium with the selected app (that could be facebook, twitter, gmail etc..). anyway not all is the web, you can also access to almost any linux app from the app manager. i need to say that is one of the most easy to use i saw, with just 1 click the app is downloaded and installed, and can see the progress on your dashboard bar. of course that if you want a really specific app is possible that will nor be available in the repositories, but if you want a something like, you should use any other more “heavy” linux distribution.

jolicloud app manager downloading

Integrated networking

jolicloud is also social networking integrated, not only with the normal services but also with the jolicloud community, where you can follow the activities on the web services of your fellow users of jolicloud. even that i think is a great feature, i didn’t found a way to deactivate my profile or enable/disable the services i want to be tracked by jolicloud. this is one of the bigs glitch that concern the user privacy, that seems to be forced to share their activity with other jolicloud users.

jolicloud networking

Conclusion

jolicloud is one of the best OS i saw for the end users. they made a great job on the user interface, making the operation of the computer, for the basic task, something easy to use again. of course is not focused to users that want to make something else than the basic office tasks. this is a the distribution for your aunt, mother, non tech family member or friend.

on the other hand, even that the cloud integration is great, is a limit for those users that maybe do not have a persistent internet connection or even if you lost it for some hours, you are unable to use your computer. also it needs a design integration of the file manager with the style of the dashboard, is not a big problem but it distract the user from their comfort felling that they have. another glitch i noted is the bad rendering of some pages as facebook, but well, the problem could be also the virtual machine where i tested it.

jolicloud facebook

basically i’d like to see another distribution not so internet  focused to work, with this same usability for the user, i think is the correct way to make the user life more easy at the time to use a computer.

i hope this review help you is some way

Regards,

Shadow.

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Hi,

i just received a email from a site that i win a award to be one of the best programming blogs (?) you can see it here

i need to say, i think the site is a little crap, but at least they give me nice badge

at least know that someone read all the no senses i write

Regards,

Shadow.

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Hi,

yesterday i found this program, called SuperOneClick, that in theory let you root your android phone with 1 click. i tried it myself with a motorola backflip and it didn’t worked, so i’m not sure if it works or not (even other say that have worked for them). if you want, can download it from here (require you create a user in the forum)

the process to root the phone is:

• set the phone under the debug mode: go to configurations -> applications -> developer -> usb debug mode
• connect the phone to the pc
• start SuperOneClick, and click on Root and wait till it finish

and also, if you have a motorola phone, you need the ADB driver, that can be downloaded from here.

i hope it works for you.

Regards,

Shadow.

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Hi,

recently i was needed to set up a ftp account in a test server, so i made it basically adding a user as always. the problem have come when this user, needed to access to a folder located in a higher level than her user directory (basically on /, the root of the system) so, there was only 2 options, or give him  root account and access using scp or having that folder under the home directory in some way. so of course i choose  the second option. my first thing to try was to create a symbolic link from the folder that was needed to access to a one in the user home directory. after several tries, and in different ways, when i tried to access to the folder, alway told me that the file was not found. so searching a little in the proftp documentation i discover that is impossible to access for a user to access to a folder that is in a upper level than her user directory, but that in linux system, you still could “mount” the folder into another. so i made it like this:

mount –bind /folder/upper/level /home/user/directory/for/folder

this will mount the folder on a another in the user home directory and could be accessed from the ftp account. if you want this mount to be permanent, you need to add it to your fstab in this way:

/folder/upper/level     /home/user/directory/for/folder  none rw,bind 0 0

and that’s all folks, i hope this help you in some way

Regards,

Shadow.

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Hi,

today i noticed on my recently brought android phone that when i made a app search, android paid app’s showed as options, something that before didn’t happened.

so i made a quick search and i found this on the official android blog.

so now, 20 more countries can buy and sell app’s including argentina

Regards,

Shadow.

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Hi,

today a quick post, basically only to share this link that has been a great help to solve the bottleneck problem that could happen on postfix.

the bottleneck happen when the queue are stuck’s with too many request for some particular reason (like dictionary attacks or spam’s that make the active queue too busy) or something failed at processing the emails that put the request on incorrect queue.

as example, yesterday, for some reason clamav failed for lack of memory, something weird as the box have enough for everything (something that i need to look about) so, as result, the postfix failed at connect amavis, so the mail system but all the emails into deferred queue. after the restore of clamav, amavis and postifx, y run a postfix reload, that will run the cleanup daemon, to process all the emails that was on deferred and put them on the active queue.

you can diagnose this with the qshape tool, all explained  on the link above, is a but difficult to understand at the beginning, but is really useful

i hope it help you in some way

Regards.

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Hi,

as i said in a earlier post, i brought a android phone, and some days ago looking for the app’s to install, i was looking for some MSN app. in my first search i found ebuddy, a service that i never used but i know that hey existed for years. so i installed the app, created a new account and link my hotmail credentials. all worked flawless so i continued doing my stuff. hours later, i starting to receive bounced emails from my contacts, send from my hotmail account, that was more than obvious that was spam. so then i changed my hotmail password and the spam emails stopped.

how i know that the fault was from ebuddy? i’m more than careful with my mails and important accounts, all of them have a different passwords that i change time to time, i do not use any web service, all open source app’s as AMSN in case of msn, and i only login on my computer or in this case phone, i never login on a public or strange computer for any reason. and BTW, my computer is running ubuntu, so virus are not a possibility

so, i don’t know if they sell your data to the spam people or have a big and important security breach, but avoid using ebuddy at all cost, from my side i reported the app and downloaded an app that directly connect to the msn service called “MSN Talk”.

Regards,

Shadow.

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Hi,

just a quick code snippet to filter any text inserted by the user, useful for only numbers (and symbols) fields like for the user phone in a form.

function checkLetters(elem){
var val=elem.value;
elem.value=val.replace(/[a-z]+/gi,”");
}

you can add this function to any input like this:

onkeypress=”checkLetters(this);”

a very basic and simple code example, but very useful some times

Regards,

Shadow.

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