I needed to be able to generate some frequency tones for project involving measuring vibrations. I just need to be able to generate a range of tones at specified frequencies. I found some nice online tools that did just that, so implemented my own here: http://nuclearprojects.com/tone/ It’s easy to use… just type in the frequency […]
I got a very sad email today from Google (actually several emails, one to each of my Google Apps accounts). Here is part of it: “Starting today, we’re no longer accepting new sign-ups for the free version of Google Apps (the version you’re currently using). Because you’re already a customer, this change has no impact […]
I send all my mail through my Google Apps account, using Google’s SMTP servers. I spent some time setting up Swift Mailer to do this, so I figured I’d show how I did it. Setting-up Swift Mailer to send mail through Google’s SMTP servers is quite easy once you put all the correct pieces together. […]
(Note: As of 12/7/2012, Google Apps is no longer offering free accounts… dang it!!) While I lease server space and host my own sites, I’ve had a lot of issues over the years with the mail server. Sometimes I don’t get emails that I should or some emails get massively delayed. So the solution I […]
On one of my sites, I needed to generate thumbnail images from various uploaded files. There are several options out there for doing that, including the GD and ImageMagick libraries. Since GD only supports a limited number of file types, the clear choice was to go with IM. ImageMagick itself does not have native PHP […]