Horde webmail error: There are no messages in this mailbox.

A couple of days ago, however, all of a sudden my inbox displayed the following message, even though there were plenty of messages both read and unread in the folder:

There are no messages in this mailbox.

The funny thing was, I could see all of the messages in the folder if I did a search for a string that was not found – for example search for messages in inbox from “nosuchuser”:

Some searching revealed that others have occassionally seen a similar problem, and there seemed to be a connection to the IMP preferences for the user having the problem. The most common recommended solution was to delete all of the imp preferences for the user.

Since I have a lot of customized settings, I wanted to avoid that if possible, so I went digging. I tracked the problem down to a garbled setting in the sortpref preference setting. The solution for me was to reset sortpref to its’ default setting. I did this with the following SQL code:

update horde_prefs set pref_value=’a:0:{}’ where pref_uid=’USERNAME‘ and pref_name=’sortpref’ and pref_scope=’imp’;

(Of course, you have to replace USERNAME with the actual username of the user having the problem)

After logging out and back in again, the problem was fixed.

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GoDaddy supports SOPA. It’s time to make the switch to a hosting company like XPC.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.

The bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who requests the court orders, the actions could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators such as PayPal from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites. The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a felony. The bill also gives immunity to Internet services that voluntarily take action against websites dedicated to infringement, while making liable for damages any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement. Read this post

Access photos remotely on your iPhone/iPad from your home PC

Using Blinq Photo for iPhone and iPad (universal and free) you can wirelessly access all your home photos from your iDevice.

Simply install the software on the computer, tell it where your photos are, then install the app to your phone. You must create an account with Tunaverse to set everything up. This will be part of the install.

The computer software is both Mac & PC compatible.

Auto-post your blog entries to Facebook, Twitter & LinkedIn

Using TwitterFeed.com you can simply write a blog post, and the website will automatically create Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn posts for you. They even use bit.ly links that let you track how many clicks your posts are getting.

1. Start by signing up at www.twitterfeed.com
2. Create a feed. (This may pop up by default for new users.)
3. Enter the name of this feed. Anything will do.
4. The blog URL is the RSS feed address. If you use WordPress, your URL will look like this example: http://example.com/?feed=rss2
5. Continue to Step 2. Authorize any services by clicking them in the list and logging in.
6. You’re finished! It should grab your newest post first, so check to see how it worked.

Fix Windows 7 Gadgets Display Glitches

If you have a rare glitch where you drag out a gadget to your desktop, and all that appears is a graphic that stays stuck on your screen, among other issues, try the following solution that worked for me:

• Open taskmgr and kill sidebar.exe process.
• Press the start button, paste the following in and press enter: %localappdata%\microsoft\Windows Sidebar
• Rename the Settings.ini to Settingsold.ini and then launch the gadgets again.

Enable exception logging in Magento via FTP

If you can’t get into your Magento administration area and are stuck with only an error, there is a way to get in by editing a file.

1. Via FTP, browse to /app
2. Open up Mage.php
3. Go to line 116, or do a search for: static private $_isDeveloperMode            = false;
4. Change that so it is true and your basic error page should turn into a detailed error log. Make sure you don’t leave that option set after you’ve fixed your problem.

Magento Error: Could not determine temp directory, please specify a cache_dir manually

• In newer versions of Magento (1.5 or so) look at: /lib/Zend/Cache/Backend/File.php
• You’ll find the following code: ‘cache_dir’ => null,
• Change it to ‘cache_dir’ => ‘/full/path/to/your/tmp/directory’,  (obviously change it to match your system).

Solution: Computer Shuts off After a few Minutes

The Problem: I have a computer at home that started randomly and suddenly shutting down due shortly after logging into windows, or just waiting a while at the bios or the safe mode prompt. Read this post

How to Integrate a Google Search Engine to Your Website

If you would like a custom search engine by Google on your website, you can simply create one here and just use the code they generate and place it on your site. However, if you want a more integrated look, I found a different solution. Read this post

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