Hey folks. Google Apps just ended their free account for business. This is sad in a way but if have a profitable business you should technically be able to pay for a service like this.Personal accounts are free (for now). And I figure it’ll be that way for quite a while.Here is the thing. I make web apps too and ...

I have a contact that is looking for a .NET application developer (not web) for work from home in Sri Lanka.If anyone is interested please contact me I’ll put you in touch with them.

Don’t do your thinking at the computer. There are just too many things to distract you. Find your sweet-spot sitting in traffic or with pen and paper at a desk.

MySQL Workbench doesn’t work out of the box in the latest Ubuntu. These steps will get it working until Oracle gets around to updating the official package sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olivier-berten/misc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl Source: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=62347Update: Don’t know if Oracle has fixed this yet. This works in the latest Linux Mint as well. ...

When you go to a Sampath Bank ATM and ask for 10,000LKR they give you 5 x 2000LKR notes.When you go to a Commercial Bank ATM and ask for 10,000LKR they give you 4 x 2000LKR, 1 x 1000LKR and 2 x 500LKR notes.Commercial gives you sensible defaults whereas at Sampath if you want change you have to ask for something like 11,500LKR.

AppCleaner is a great tool on the Mac. It helps you remove and clean up app files. As great as it is you have to keep an eye on what it’s going to delete.In the image above you can see its trying to nuke my Cookies folder when I was trying to delete the Kies app.My advice is delete 1 app at a time and carefully have a look at that list before you press that delete button.

Usually I just update OSX to the latest. But I came across this after a quick search. Skype 6.3 crashes on Mac OSX 10.8.3 – Skype Community I use Skype quite often so I’m going to hold off for a bit longer until things are sorted out.

I got a mail from technorati.com today. They wanted me to take a short survey or something.Hey good that you reminded me of another account I don’t use. I don’t get any referral traffic from them anymore either.So I reset my password which comes in plain text in an email. Okay that’s bad.Then I continue to try and delete my ...

I’m back on Linux, back in trouble as well. Ok so downloading and installing the latest deb file for VirtualBox doesn’t work out of a box. I found this in the VirtualBox forum. It turns out you need to install these packages first. sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic Then install the deb file sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-4.2_4.2.10-84104~Ubuntu~quantal_amd64.deb

I finally setup a company for myself. Yay for me! Don’t believe the hype just yet. Then again there isn’t much hype about it right now. I’ve been trying to drum up some interest over the holidays but it was harder than I thought.I might be a bit late to the ...

I got a LinkedIn request from a guy I know I should know. I have probably worked with him as well. But since he doesn’t have a profile picture I really can’t tell. So I can’t won’t Please add profile pictures if you want to connect.

Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos | Politics and Law – CNET News Seriously? If I was a serious user I would have paid for a pro version of the service. That could have been a revenue model right? Oh well. I want to delete my account • Instagram Help Center

I’ve been hit with a “No Service” issue on my iPhone 4. I’ve been trying all sorts of fixes in the last few weeks.I think my troubles began when I upgraded to iOS 5.1.1. Although there are ways to revert back I hadn’t kept a snapshot of the OS at 5.0.xYou have no idea how frustrating this is. First I ...

When I was compiling my last post I wanted to embed a tweet in my blog post. I found a nice plugin for that called Twitter Embed.Getting a Tweet’s permanent link wasn’t that straightforward, so I made a small video to show how. Also notice I’m picking the short code instead of the link, that’s what Twitter Embed needs.

I had a few months worth of photos on my phone that needed to be imported and sorted.All I wanted to do was move the photos into monthly folders. So I found exiftool that had some options that did what I wanted.If you have Homebrew on mac you can install it like this. brew install exiftool Here is the command I used to move my photos. exiftool -d %m "-directory

I know I should have blogged more. But then I was busy working. Now that I’m out of work do you think anyone following this blog would notice and hire me?Lets find out http://www.linkedin.com/in/dilantha

You can’t run Silex apps directly on Dreamhost yet. After a bit of digging around I came up with this.You need to create a file ~/.php/5.3/phprc in your home directory, not under the website directory and put these lines in there. extension=phar.so detect_unicode = Off phar.readonly = Off phar.require_hash = Off suhosin.executor.include.whitelist = phar Its not immediate, but in about ...

Indi is asking: What kind of taxi do you usually take?I think he is building some kind of social app for taxis. At the moment on his poll meter taxies are winning. Here is what I think about that.I voted for meter taxies too. Its the obvious choice there. If you call for a car or van from a cab ...

Sri Lanka is a great place for used stuff. Cars and phones are in the top bracket here. But these days there is a problem selling. Although there is a demand once you sell you can’t afford to buy the next best thing.The rupee is falling and businesses are not spending as much.So that means my hosting fees are going up and it’s getting harder to get paid.

Scientists Discover That Tiny Fractal Trees Could Hold Key to More Efficient Solar CellsHmm sounds familiar. I have heard something like this before. There was a kid called Aidan Dwyer talking about solar cells in a tree pattern last year.It looks like Aidan got some negative articles written about his theory as well. Then again he was 13. But if this is related the kid deserves some credit.