Today the ipinfodb server went down, creating disruption in all these applications that use the service for identifying a user’s location via their IP address. The script provided by ipinfodb, does not have a timeout option, resulting in the function hanging for 30 seconds or more (depending on your PHP time out settings.) The solution:
The Mobile Content Switch Plugin is a free Joomla Plugin that will enable you to hide or show content depending if the user is visiting your site from an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or not. Great to display an embedded Flash video for non-Apple mobile devices, and a QuickTime movie for Apple mobile devices, or other [...]
The CalDAV specification has been under development for a few years now, and now there is an open source solution for shared calendaring implementations. The authors of DAViCal have evaluated the possibilities for shared calendaring, and have elected to follow the path of implementing CalDAV because they believe it is a good specification and that [...]
Sphider, the open source PHP spider (aka Web crawler) and search engine, uses the fsockopen() function to get files that are spidered. This means that if the site you are spidering is protected via .htaccess or the Apache directive to protect realms, Sphider will return a “401 unreachable” error when attempting to fetch files during [...]
Off-the-shelf, Sphider the open source php crawler and search engine, (http://www.sphider.eu/) only returns one portion of a document in which the searched keyword is found. With this mod, Sphider will display as many as 5 portions of a document instead…
