Ever tried to install EasyPHP or Xammp or even IIS and found trouble. Well I just spent an hour to find that Skype is running on Port 80, which means that Apache couldn’t start.

From Windows XP or Server 2003 you can run a port scan but in Windows 2000 a little utility called Fport will be useful. If you’re using Skype, turn it off and try again.

Otherwise download Fport. It’s a little tricky - it saves itself to a directory called Fport-2.0. Their instructions are actually wrong.

They say to run it from the command prompt c:/>fport, but it’s actually c:/>Fport-2.0/fport

it just depends how you save it I suppose.

Anyway, that little sucker will tell you what’s running on all ports on your computer, and could be pretty handy one day.

Well, a bit technical but pretty cool.

Well, it’s all happening isn’t it. They say it never rains but it pours. Further to my increased love of all things Google I have just activated a Gmail account. The main reason for this is that my regular email address has been spammed to hell and back and I’m just sick of it. The other reason is that I am switching to ADSL2, which I mentioned in a previous post. Part of that is that I will need a new email address. Now silly me, it just occured to me that i have a central, nice and spam free address with the Big G, then if I change ISPs again it’s going to be a lot easier. I still have the momentous
task of switching all my email addresses in my multitude of providers, services and contacts that I need just to exist in my current form on the internet, but when all is said and done, I love it because I will only have to do the work once. Plus I can’t beat the 2.7G of storage Google is going to donate to the cause. Way to go Google.

Now further to this is another problem I have had. I am an afficianado of Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundations, open source email client - and I’d like to get my gmail in my Thunderbird inboxes. I didn’t even know this was possible but I searched on Google and found a tutorial for configuring Thunderbird and Gmail for pop access, so that you can get you gmail on thunderbird.

Pretty cool hey?

You can find the complete instructions for configuring Thunderbird for Gmail at this nice little blog here. I told the guy I’d link to him, since it saves me having to write this tutorial myself. I couldn’t have done a better job.

Configuring Gmail and Thunderbird together

So here it is: How to configure Thunderbird for Gmail - or reading Gmail on Thunderbird - you know what I mean.

Viralpix is a new image sharing script available. It allows webmasters to create a website allowing visitors to post their photos and share them with friends and families. Additionally you can place an image gallery snapshot in your MySpace account creating an image sharing centre for friends, family or your online community.

And the best part about it is it’s free to upload your images.

Here’s what the authors had to say about MySpace which I thought was pretty interesting, since I only heard about MySpace last week.

* MySpace is a super cool, totally free, and wildly popular social networking site (a massive online community)

* MySpace members can create profile pages, blogs, share music, make friends, communicate with each other, and much more

* MySpace is currently the 9th most popular website on the planet

* MySpace is currently growing by more than 150,000 new users a day

* MySpace gets more than 12 billion page views per month (that’s more page views than any Internet destination except Yahoo, AOL, and MSN!)

Now that is some successful business.

Check out viralpix

Check out MySpace

Heck MySpace is definitely popular.

*** See my viralpix site BudPix.net

Why is called Viral Pix

Because you share your pics with others and they share their pics and pretty soon you’ve got an avalanche of traffic. But if you just want to post your photos for your friends it’s great for that too.

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