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Changing Calendar Colors on a Jailbroken iPhone running iOS 5

Chris Carey — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:54:00 +0000

iOS 5 changed the database that deals with Calendar colors. The value is now a hex value just like CSS uses (something like #fe6548)

- Install sqlite3 via Cydia

- ssh to your iPhone

- Run sqlite3 and open the calendar database

iPhone:~ mobile$ sqlite3 /var/mobile/Library/Calendar/Calendar.sqlitedb

- Issue the SQL commands to change the calendar colors:

sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#9FC6E7' WHERE title = 'Chris Carey';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#FF7537' WHERE title = 'Work';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#D06B64' WHERE title = 'Important';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#B3DC6C' WHERE title = 'School';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#4986E7' WHERE title = 'Chris & Nasique';
sqlite> UPDATE Calendar SET color='#AC725E' WHERE title = 'Health';

-Quit sqlite3

.quit

-Quit ssh

exit

If needed, kill the calendar app or reboot the phone to get it to reload the new colors

Twitter API, PHP precision and scientific notation

Chris Carey — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:20:40 +0000

If you use PHP and the Twitter API, be on the lookout for this issue.

Twitter IDs are up to 141 quadrillion (141 million billion). These Twitter IDs exceed PHP’s default precision of 14. So your Twitter IDs could be converted to scientific notation by PHP.

A Twitter ID of 141675395434037249 will be stored as 1.41675395434037249E+17 once PHP gets it’s hands on it.

This could cause code that has been working great for a while to stop working.

Edit your php.ini and set precision to 20, or use
ini_set(‘precision’, 20);

Debian squeeze libmysqlclient.so.15

Chris Carey — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:48:40 +0000

Here is what you need if you have some binary on Debian squeeze which wants libmysqlclient.so.15

wget http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mysql-dfsg-5.0/libmysqlclient15off_5.0.51a-24+lenny5_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i libmysqlclient15off_5.0.51a-24+lenny5_i386.deb

mBuzz Maintenance Page

Chris Carey — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:53:53 +0000

mBuzz Maintenance page. The ‘Like’ and ‘Comment’ buttons both function. It sent the Likes and Comments into an IRC channel that could be seen during the upgrade process.

Show or Hide hidden files in Finder OS X

Chris Carey — Tue, 10 May 2011 22:39:01 +0000

Here is how it’s done via the Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder
How to Hide Hidden Files:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE killall Finder

Thanks Brooks Andrus

Google Search Globe

Chris Carey — Fri, 06 May 2011 15:26:21 +0000

Google is working on this open source data visualization project Search Globe, check it out. I’m a big fan of creative data visualization.

Google Buzz link inside GMail

Chris Carey — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:37:06 +0000

The location of Google Buzz within GMail does not make sense to me.

Currently Google Buzz is inside of GMail, along with Inbox, etc:

Here is how it should look. Google Buzz should be it’s own section up with Mail:

Firesheep netmask error solved

Chris Carey — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 03:07:58 +0000

When using Firesheep on MacOSX you get:

“Couldn’t get netmask for device en1: en1: no IPv4 address assigned.”

Open up terminal and type “ifconfig” to see if your ethernet cart is indeed on en1. My Mac Air has the wireless card as en0, not en1.

Go to the url “about:config” in Firefox. This opens up extra configuration options for Firefox. Search for ‘firesheep’ and there will be an option to change the Firesheep interface.

SLCC Barbering and Cosmetology School

Chris Carey — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:24:04 +0000

Funny Video

SSH KeepAlive

Chris Carey — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:18:09 +0000

By default, your ssh daemon probably will kick you out after a period of no activity. I like to set the following in sshd_config:

TCPKeepAlive yes
ClientAliveInterval 60