Quick intro for the first-timers: Backup2Mail automagically creates backup of your database and sends it to your mailbox with a little help of Cron.

The script can now be tested without the Cron, prior to moving it to its permanent location.

First, download the .ZIP, unpack it, and change configuration settings.

Upload folder in your public web folder to test it. Open the file in your browser.

If you see the black page with green letters and there’s no errors, you are good to go. Move it to protected area (that means delete from public folder).

Have a nice backup.

From Oxford American Writers Thesaurus:

Impartial: unbiased, unprejudiced, neutral, nonpartisan, nondiscriminatory, disinterested, detached, dispassionate, objective, open-minded, equitable, evenhanded, fair, fair-minded, just; without favoritism, without fear or favor.

Treat your users well. Don’t underestimate anything.

General Rommel said:

Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.

Every human has the optimal role within its little ecosystems — family, friends, sports team, interest groups, workplace.

Unfortunately, one’s virtues and vices can’t be always recognized early.

Gathering the team is like solving a puzzle. Each piece has the exactly right spot in a picture that no other piece could replace.

Today, May 21st 2008. — the Ezadar team is celebrating the first year of their online presence! Same time last year, web.burza crew ran for another winner, and now — one year later — it turns out that Ezadar really is one of the fastest growing news portals here in Croatia.

They are showing off their grid and maratz.com joins the party.

For the geek in you, turn off JavaScript and reload the Ezadar cover.

HRT robbed BBC.

This is the embarrassment of the decade for the Croatian web community.

Follow the original thread at mi3dot.org. It is a Google’s translation from Croatian to English, but you’ll get the picture.

If you care, please let us know.

More voices:

• zytzagoo: HRT vs BBC
• Marketing Servis: HRT.hr i BBC.co.uk ko brata dva!
• T-portal: HRT ‘posudio’ dizajn od BBC-ja?
• Davor Peić Gavran: Croatian HRT vs BBC.co.uk, totally rip off
• Index: Iz koda HRT-ove stranice najednom nestalo ime tvrtke koja ju je radila
• Index: HRT-ova nova web stranica besramni plagijat bbc.co.uk
• Index: Hašim Bahtijari: Pitat ću na Vijeću koliko je novaca utrošeno na izradu novih stranica HRT-a
• Index: Dizajneri složni: HRT je pokrao BBC, i to loše
• Marko Mihelčić: Croatian national television website (HRT) fancy’s BBC website.
• Nivas Blog: How HRT failed in their intention to become Croatian BBC
• Wolfwood’s Crowd: Ripanje i ripersko prigovaranje

Typetester user Jason from Robbinsville asked:

Why are some font sizes in the typetester drop down size list in red and others not?

The highlighted values in font size drop-down match the ones in Photoshop.

Those values are also known as Typographic scale. Mark Boulton wrote a series of short articles on the topic. Here’s a quote from Five simple steps to better typography - Part 4.

In the sixteenth century, European typographers developed a series of typeface sizes, a scale (the musical analogy is a good one - stick with me). As shown in the diagram they are sizes we’re are all familiar with. Six point through to Seventy-Two point type has remained pretty much intact for over four hundred years. In fact, they are the default font sizes in many applications (give or take a few.).

So, what’s so special about these sizes? Well, because this scale of sizes has been used for centuries, if set correctly, type set in this scale will appear more pleasing to the eye and therefore more legible.

The major Croatian web conference Web.start moved to a better location, the Hypo EXPO XXI Center. It was so much more convenient for networking, because of broad terraces and numerous coffee shops where we all had endless discussions. Very smart move. Continue reading »

You might have a problem printing to your USB printer connected to your Time Capsule, with the error message “Network Host … is busy” as described in the topic 10.5 Printing Error “Network Host Busy Problem”.

If that’s the case, here’s the quick tip.

First, make sure the Time Capsule recognizes the printer. You can check that under the “Manual Setup” in your Airport Utility.

Next, open System Preferences, choose “Print & Fax” and hit the plus button on the left (i.e. add printer). At this point you should already have your printer drivers installed on the computer.

The default tab is the most probably IP and that is misguiding. Switch to “Default” and wait a couple of seconds. This however could take a while, just don’t close the window too soon. When the list is updated, select a printer from the list (the “Kind” column should indicate Bonjour).

Finally, hit “Add” on the same screen and you’re done.

I had a quest.

My Old Man asked me to find a decent mobile phone for him. He wasn’t after anything fancy — “Just to have the large letters on a display”, he requested.

My Dad doesn’t care about the model and make. His only concern is avoiding troubles he used to have when sending text messages. He is having trouble reading text on the small screen.

To make things harder, my Dad is a tiler. Tilers have enormous fists and fingers. Probably, the largest of all builders. When your hands are like paws, you’re having trouble using a small keyboard.

So I bought him a Nokia. I found a model that has both — large display with large letters and fairly large buttons.

I have two phone numbers.

The phone I use to talk to my parents is a personal one and we have cheap calls, since we’re on the same carrier. When he calls me on my business phone, they charge him much more than they should. But Dad keeps calling me on that phone. I wondered why.

When I gifted the new phone to my father, I added my business phone number, just in case.

This new phone has large letters on the large display and large buttons. The phone also has large icons which you can assign to any contact in the address book. When I added a new phone number, I automatically assigned an icon to it. Since then, my father calls me to that number.

I will have to remove the icons.

Illustration by Marko Kršul

Web.start is a local web conference with strong focus on Web application development and Web startups. The conference takes place on May 8-9, 2008, at Hypo EXPO XXI Centre in Zagreb, Croatia.

This year the schedule is really, really promising. If you are around and you understand Croatian, you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to hear what’s going on at the local startup scene.

On the other hand, if you have an interesting project yourself, then there is a chance to meet some quality VCs to help you out.

I’ll be there both days, so drop by and say “Hi!”. If I look confused, don’t worry — that’s just me being full of excitement about my presentation ”What the users want?”. The presentation will give a short insight in user’s needs, based on our work with users and focus groups at Croportal.