Author Archives: Ashley Ross
Gmail From Sorter 1.6 unleashed
Having released Gmail From Sorter 1.4 the other day, I continued fiddling with it based Robert’s feedback. One thing I hadn’t realized was that, as a user of Google Multiple Sign-In, the URLs I see differ slightly from the URLs … Continue reading
Gmail From Sorter 1.4 released
I recently noticed that my Gmail From Sorter Greasemonkey script stopped working, but as usual “out of sight, out of mind”; having sent the email, I promptly forgot about the problem. I was reminded again tonight when Robert emailed me … Continue reading
The Legend of FinkyPieheimer@zoobatz.com
Occasionally, you want a quick disposable email address for registering on suspicious websites, or in my case, for testing your own website’s registration system. While there are several options, I use Mailinator because you don’t need to set up anything … Continue reading
Getting to the (Reparse) Point: Notes
These are the links, notes and resources for my presentation Getting to the (Reparse) Point, which I’ll be giving at Microsoft Devs4Devs on Saturday, 20 August 2011 at 09:30. Code Manta, my open source .NET library with functionality for managing … Continue reading
Announcing Manta
It’s taken much too long, but I’ve finally created an online project for Manta, which until recently didn’t even have an official name. Manta is an open source .NET library that currently features a variety of I/O- and web-related classes … Continue reading
Buying a Dremel in South Africa
I’d been wanting to get myself a Dremel rotary tool for ages, but only started looking into it recently. Immediately, I was overwhelmed by the variety of options thrown at me – do I get the tool by itself and … Continue reading
Your iPhone & its dock: Disabling the mute feature
I recently purchased a dock for my iPhone from a guy on Ebay. It’s not an official Apple product, because $5 is a far better price than the $29 Apple wants for a piece of plastic. All-in-all, its a great … Continue reading
Restoring iPhone USB access under iTunes 9
Like many jailbreak iPhone users, I prefer to SSH to my iPhone 3G via the USB cable instead of over my wifi network. Since upgrading to iPhone OS 3.1.2 and iTunes 9.0.2 (Specifically 9.0.2.25), however, I’ve discovered that the tool … Continue reading
The legal risks of buying a US iTunes voucher/gift card
My experience with safely buying a US iTunes voucher was entirely positive, but being scammed isn’t the only way things can go wrong for a South African iTunes user. I recently came across a post discussing the legality of using … Continue reading
Buying iTunes vouchers/gift cards online
Using an iPhone and iTunes as a South African user sucks. Every iPhone user I know has registered a US iTunes account to get access to apps that are inexplicably* unavailable in South Africa. The only downside is that, without … Continue reading