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Instagram will sell your pictures without any compensation or notification

12-18-2012 Tech News No comments

Following its purchase by Facebook a few months ago, Instagram released last Monday 12/17/2012 an updated version of its privacy policy and terms of service that involves severe changes affecting everyone who publish their pictures on this huge social network wich a few months ago beat 100 million users.

As of January 16, 2013, all new pictures uploaded to Instagram may be sold to others and they have no obligation to compensate you for it, or even notice to you. That means for example that your photos, whether a landscape, a monument or yourself, may appear in any advertisement or as a part of the cover of a magazine.

New Facebook Hoax: Copyright/Privacy Messages

11-27-2012 Tech News No comments

In the last few hours I detected a growing number of Facebook posts from many users who claim copyright over their own pictures. Well, after some research I confirmed what I suspected: this is an Hoax, ie a false viral message that Facebook users are massively posting on their walls.

SugarCRM error when searching tasks related to custom modules with underscores within their names

When we create a custom module in SugarCRM (eg “grt_Providers_Contracts”) and create a link or relationship between that module and one that uses the “Related to” field type such as “Tasks”, we probably will want to search all the tasks related to our new module “grt_Providers_Contracts” from the simple or advanced search form from “Tasks” module.

However, there is a bug in SugarCRM that prevents us to retrieve tasks related to a custom module if that module has underscores (_) within his name, showing the following fatal error:

Podio, a great collaboration tool

11-06-2012 Collaboration and Teamwork, Productivity 1 comment

After a long time looking for an application that would allow me to manage the vast amounts of tasks I have to deal with every day, I never found one that suited my needs so well and offered me as much potential as Podio.

And I tried so far. From the first ones I looked at many years ago, like Egroupware, dotProject, ]project-open[ or Feng Office, to the much more powerful and evolved Redmine, Teambox, Confluence and Jira, Zyncro, Basecamp or Asana, there are many tools I squeezed in search of the ultimate solution to my needs in time, files and links management, information sharing, group communication and team collaboration.

1-click automatically open a Keepassx database

11-02-2012 Security, Tips & Tricks No comments

Those who use the tool KeePassX (KeePass clone for Linux and Mac OS X) to safely save passwords and login details at one single place will have seen many times on the need for rapid access to their repository of passwords with a single click. However, by default when accessing KeePassX none repository is open, or one is open that does not correspond to the one we want to check, so often it’s necessary to browse the file system to locate and select the corresponding file. If in addition to a master password we use a key file to improve security, we have to repeat the same process over and over again to locate and select the key file.

I am looking for freelance PHP programmers

08-01-2012 Entrepreneurship, Programming and Web Development 4 comments

I am looking for freelance PHP programmers with initiative and entrepreneurial spirit to help me, first, take on the surplus of projects that my clients request to me and I can’t accept due to lack of time. On the other hand, but not least important, I would like to find reliable people to form a strong team to undertake and develop some projects I have in mind and others that someone may propose.

ERROR: PleskFatalException – Unable to connect to database: saved admin password is incorrect.

07-01-2012 Troubleshooting 5 comments

After subscribing a new VPS server from my hosting provider, I found that although I could access to Plesk control panel properly, I was unable to access MySQL with the same admin’s user and password as used in Plesk. As a result, I couldn’t do anything with the database from the command line or in any other way. So I decided to manually change the admin user’s password via the mysql shell. After making such change I could perfectly log in to MySQL, but nevertheless the Plesk control panel stopped working, throwing the following exception:

Connecting sites securely using OAuth

04-18-2012 Portfolio, Security No comments

Client: withheld for reasons of confidentiality (Germany)

The German client company who hired this project has a website with a high component of social network and a mobile application for iPhone and Android that tracks walking, driving or biking paths and then is used to share them with other people on the former website or other external ones thanks to its export tools. This is similar to Endomondo app, but more oriented to track tourist routes and attractions that in sporting terms.

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