Jens Olsson » Tips & Tricks

Strtoupper Å Ä Ö fix UTF-8

Jens Olsson — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:18:15 +0000

As you might know the Stroupper dont work with special chars like Å Ä Ö. Also its not working to do str_replace sice Å Ä Ö is not supported there. But there is a way to do this easy with mb_stroupper and use UTF-8, see my example:

$string = “åäö”;

$string=mb_strtoupper($string, “utf-8″);

echo $string;

Enjoy!

$string=mb_strtoupper($string, “utf-8″);

FTP server Ubuntu with graphic

Jens Olsson — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:15:19 +0000

GproFTPD is a good graphic based FTP server for Ubuntu. For install simpley type:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gproftpd.

After installation just start the program by: sudo gproftpd and setup your FTP server and users.

Unexpected end of mysql – EasyPHP

Jens Olsson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:48:38 +0000

When I was running EasyPHP on my Vista machine I got error:

unexpected end of mysql

To solve this just quit easyPHP and then right click on easyphp.exe and run as administrator. Hope it helped. Dident find this trick on google so perhaps you did

Good luck!

Skype in your Nokia N97

Jens Olsson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:57:58 +0000

Now I finally got my new Nokia N97 and I really like this “little” phone! But since I am as you already know a huge fan of Skype I just had to install it on my new phone. But skype have not yet created a offical version of Skype to Nokia N97 so I decide to install a multi msg client and found out that Fring is the best working one! It support skype-out witch I really like. Also have some other nice furtures! Try it out if you are looking for Skype client for Nokia N97!

Add printer in Ubuntu, Linux

Jens Olsson — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:55:57 +0000

Little tips how to add network or regular printer to Ubuntu. Go to System>Admin>Printers.

Then New > Printer. Here you choose if you have a network or regular (ex USB). If you have network just enter the IP address and then serch. After you have to select printer for install drivers. All mine networks printer have worked very good so far, only used HP but any way

Then finish and print! Have fun.

.local domain message Ubuntu, Linux

Jens Olsson — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:19:15 +0000

I was getting a message when i connected to my wireless network that said I hade .local domain thats not recommended. To get this dissapere I just wrote this two command into the terminal and rebooted. After that it worked fine:

sudo sed -i -e'/AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL/s/1/0/' /etc/default/avahi-daemon sudo service avahi-daemon start

Did see it on: http://ubuntu-se.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=41977&hilit=dom%C3%A4n#p340853

Thanks!

Open RAR in Ubuntu, Linux

Jens Olsson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:33:27 +0000

To open RAR in Ubuntu, install unrar by typing in the terminal:

sudo aptitude install unrar

Then you can open your rar file as usually

Convert AVI to ISO (DVD) easy on Ubuntu

Jens Olsson — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:35:16 +0000

Was in need to convert a avi file to iso file and did find a perfect program for this. DeVeDe is the name and you will find it in synaptic. Install and use, choose video DVD if you want to burn it out and then watch it on your DVD-player. You can add subtitles and etc. Perhaps little slow but works perfect!

Webcame driver/program for Ubuntu

Jens Olsson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:31:30 +0000

Today I did get a tip for a webcam program(driver?) on a forum. The program is called Cheese, its in synaptic or if you more like the terminal just write “sudo aptitude install cheese”. After installation you will find it under graphic. Try out some cool effects while testing, take a look at mine below

Best MSN client for Ubntu

Jens Olsson — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:14:05 +0000

Now i finally have found a good MSN client for Ubuntu and iom the best. It’s name is emesene and it have some nice futures. Please take a look at the pics below to see a demo of it. For install just do “sudo apt-get install emesene” and it will work perfect.