Author: vinhboy

If you search for “quickbooks online login”, you will notice that it is marked as “Currently Offline” https://login.quickbooks.com/ This is interesting to me because WorkingPoint, an online invoicing solution has never been down. We’ve been very careful to only add new functionality and features doing off peak hours. We have literally stayed up past midnight… Continue reading Quickbooks Online Login Is Down

Here is why the iPhone FaceTime is really a FacePalm. It only works on WiFi – What are the chances the person you want to talk with will also be near a WiFi location? Texting is easier – We’ve already abandon “talking” on the phone in favor of texting and twitter. Why would we go… Continue reading iPhone FaceTime Sucks

I was following some instructions on setting up activation emails for authlogic. I got everything working, but I noticed actionmailer was not sending out the activation emails, eventhough I can clearly see it created them in the logs. What’s even more interesting, it does work when I deploy into production. So I snooped around in… Continue reading Rails ActionMailer working but not sending

I get abnormally excited when I see cool hacks and tricks go down. Today I found a couple of people on my profile “liked” the page “The Man With The Biggest…” First order of business, go here to unlike that page if you are a victim: http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://allhqpics.com/the-man-with-the-biggest-dick-on-earth.html&layout=standard&show_faces=false&width=450&action=like&font=tahoma&colorscheme=light&height=80 Secondly, here is what you see when you… Continue reading Facebook “Man With The Biggest” Trick

If you accidentally upgraded your iPhone to OS 3.1.3, like I did, you will notice that the peacefulinsanity and help.benm.at mobileconfig no longer work. Well here is, the only way, to enable iPhone tethering again for ATT customers: Use the http://spiritjb.com/ to jailbreak your phone Go into Cydia and install MyWi with Rock Sign up… Continue reading How to tether the iPhone OS 3.1.3

Got bored so I started experimenting with making wordpress plugins that are widgets. 1) I wrote this one because the default WordPress “Recent Post” widget does not show dates. It is important to have dates, so here it is: https://gist.github.com/0c80a1918d6f66683f42 2) I was using a plugin called “get recent comments” that was working fine. But… Continue reading Latest Posts and Latest Comments WordPress Widgets Plugin

As a developer, I run Firefox all day long. Then I began to notice that Firefox would get progressively slower, to the point where it wouldn’t want to move anymore. So here is how you can diagnose and fix the problem to make Firefox faster: 1) open “Activity Monitor” 2) Notice how on mine Firefox… Continue reading How to fix firefox memory leak and slowness on the Mac

Clear the cache. The Google Chrome browser on my MacBook Pro literally took half a minute to startup. Here is how to make it bootup in less than 5 seconds. 1) Chrome >> Clear Browsing Data… 2) Check all boxes 3) Select “everything” from the drop-down 3) Click “Clear Browsing Data” Chrome will freeze. It… Continue reading How to make Google Chrome faster