Never use PureSync

It is not often that I find it important to write any warnings, but I started to use the program PureSync (version 2.8.1)  from Jumping Bytes Software. At first it seemed as a really good idea. The free version could react on file changed and push a new copy to a “sync dir” and it even could delay deletions for a while to be able to access a file which should not have been deleted for a while.

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Funny Coincidence

I was sitting reading TechCrunch today and suddenly I just had to stop. There, on the TechCrunch page, was a funny sign talking about taking the air out of the tires

I don’t know what it has to do with net neutrality, but what made me stop was a picture we took in New York when we were there in 2008. Sure it is NY and anyone can post a picture which TC can used, so it is maybe not really that unlikely, but I still find if funny that they happened to use the same motive.

Not the same angle, but if this is not the same sign I’ll be more than amazed.

TechChrunch Air will be taken out of tires

Google Voice and PBX

Many people are interested in using Google Voice together with a software PBX and there is an option. Google Voice let you forward your voice to a gmail chat account (the one with the same user id as Google Voice). Now this is interesting as with the right software you can integrate it via the Jabber/Xmpp.

PBXes has done it and there is talk that Asterisk 1.8 will do it :-)

I’ve not tried any of them, but it sure sounds good ….

SMS HowTo

You might have been thinking – damn! why does he not post that SMS article as well .. well here it is. Hope you enjoy it.


“How to send a SMS message to a mobile phone using a dial up connection to a gateway.”

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programs

It was back in October 2002 I last published this page. Some people are still asking for these tools, so here they are for you to use.

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Strange IT politics

Ever since the net was new I have failed to understand that Denmark rejects to use a common suffix (like eg. .gov.dk or whatever they like) for all sites published and maintained by the government. So is danmark.dk a part of the government? What about nyidanmark.dk? Ok they are not difficult, but what about nemid.dk and netid.nu? Which one do you think is from the government?

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VCL

Still in the spirit of re-publishing some of my old information you can here find my VCL components. I last coded on this back in 2001 on Delphi 3 (afik) – you can download them and use them, but I can not help you with upgrading to newer versions of Delphi.
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Google Voice and a US number

Here is my quick guide to a Google Voice account and a US number terminated at my home phone.

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1% of the Internet crashed the other day …

You might have read this in some newspaper, though unless you are very unlucky I doubt you really noticed, but a few routers stopped work the way they were suppose to and caused failures in the control information in the Internet.

You can read more on HITECHfourm. If you read the article, or scroll down near the end, you see they say “it will happen again”.

The scary thing is that they are so right. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) was not made to handle errors in the data stream, and if they did happen it did basically use the ejection seat (imagine your car not having a break, but an ejection seat instead .. wuuuuussshhhhh).

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Jpeg Info

In the spirit of helping I’m trying to post old articles again in on my website. Links below does not work, but here is the text about my Jpeg /Exif “investigations” 9 years ago :-)


Recently someone asked me for a program to rename jpeg files, so they would contain the date as a part of the file name. Naive as I am, I thought that this would be an easy task, so I offered to help. I just didn’t know if he wanted to use the file date or the “current date” when attaching the date to the file name.

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