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Just finished debugging a persistent error with a PHP5 install on Windows 2003. Kept saying:
“Invalid access to memory location.”

Finally figured out that it means that there is a file or folder referenced in the php.ini that doesn’t exist. To fix, simply search “c:\” and find the uncommented line with the wrong path.

Google just released a new feature – iPhone sync for Google Calendar! That was the first thing I tried to do when I got my iPhone. I ended up using a workaround through NeuvaSync.com. It worked perfectly and thus I was a little hesitant to try the official version out. The little banner at the top of my Google Calendar homepage, finally got to me though:

I had to try it out.

I went through all of the steps, but it the instructions didn’t work! It appeared that it worked perfectly for regular google calendar owners, but when you used Google Apps for Domains it didn’t work.

It took several hours of searching to finally figure out what was going on. The Mobile Sync wasn’t enabled in my Google Apps account. But also, I didn’t even have the ability to enable it! Here are the steps that I had to take to get Calendar Sync working for my Google Apps for Domains account:

1. Go to Domain Settings at the top:

2. All the way at the bottom, make sure that your control panel has Next Generation selected.

3. Now, go over to Service Settings on the top right. You’ll now have a “Mobile” option. This wasn’t there for me until I selected “Next Generation” in the control panel section.

4. Enable the Sync and you’re off. The original instructions link should now work perfectly!
http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

Sometimes you just want to test an email address to see if it’s valid, but you don’t actually want to send them an email.

Instead of sending an email with the subject of “Just testing”, it’s a simple programming task to check the validity of the address. You can check the syntax, if the domain name is valid and if the receiving mail server will accept mail for the address.

I did a search today and found several websites. One was broken, but this one worked perfectly:

http://verify-email.org/

Do you have any other good ones that should be mentioned?