Some Little News

Some time ago, when I first discovered multi-protocol instant messaging softwares I was really excited. Digsby for instance allows you to chat with tons of other applications protocols, even facebook; It also provides instant notifications of email messages.
The downside of all of this, is a great loss of time and concentration. I used to think [...]

UPDATE: sito ufficiale
Di recente per il corso di Tecnica delle Costruzioni mi è toccato rappresentare più volte i grafici di Momento Flettente e teglio per la trave continua; farne più combinazioni di carico ed infine l’inviluppo…
Fortunatamente esiste il software MomCad che permette di creare il grafico in automatico dati i carichi e le luci. Sfortunatamente [...]

Google Maps API offer a lot of possibilities, especially with the new Javascript V3 API. Part of this are the so called services: geocoding, directions, elevation and places.
Elevation service allows you to get the elevation of a place given the coordinates or the place address. To use it within your google maps code, you just [...]

Well, I thought this was not possible but I found an application that really does that! The only thing you need to make it work is to add its not-obtrusive box to your profile and you’re done! The application is developed in italian, but the installation is pretty straightforward anyways:

So first go to the [...]

Il conto WeBank oltre ad essere tra i più convenienti della rete, di recente regala 100€ spendibili su MediaWorld Online! Qui per attivarlo subito, altrimenti basta inserire il codice convenzione MEDIAW00 al momento dell’apertura.
Non fate come me, che mi sono accorto della promozione solo dopo aver aperto il conto!

I have recently moved a WordPress installation to another web hosting, I had it win-zipped, uploaded via FTP and then I extracted it with Hostgator’s File Manager. I repaired the config file and the databases as well.
To my surprise there were a lot of error messages like this:
Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter [...]

Today I needed to replace LOTS of values inside a wordpress database, especially the meta_value in the wp_postmeta table. This solution will allow you to only replace values with a specified meta_key. It is very usefoul if you are using (like me) some “custom values” plugin in your posts.
UPDATE `YOUR_WORDPRESS_DATABASE`.`wp_postmeta` SET `meta_value` = REPLACE(`meta_value`,”OLD_STRING”,”NEW_STRING”) [...]

Need to invite all your Facebook friends to an event but you don’t want to select all of them manually? Try pasting this code in your browser addres bar:
javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}
Pretty cool, isn’t it?
— ITALIANO —
Hai bisogno di invitare tutti i tuoi amici facebook ad un evento ma non hai voglia [...]

VPN is about creating a virtual private network or tunnel over the public network “internet”. Each VPN tunnel is totally anonymous on the public internet and it helps to keep your activities of internet users anonymous, private and secure. A VPN connection is an attractive option for people concerned about their security and privacy. It [...]

It may happen that you want to upgrade your Hard Disk without loosing all your data, especially your Windows partition. Fortunately this is pretty easy but with Windows Vista and Windows Seven you’ll probably have boot problems, here is how I did:

recreate the disk structure on the new HardDisk
copy files from the old one
repair Windows [...]