Step 1 – Update and Upgrade your existing software repositories
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2 – Add some extra repositories so you can get the latest version
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Then add the following to that file, and save it:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable all
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ stable all

Step 3: Update your new repositories
sudo apt-get update

(I got some 404 errors with this step, but you can ignore them)

Step 4: Install the latest version of php
sudo apt-get install php5-cli

Step 5: Restart Apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

A quick look at the source for install.php reveals this on line 489:

$version_fail = (version_compare(phpversion(), “5.2.8″) < 0);

If you just change 5.2.8 to your version (in my case, 5.2.6), it will install. There aren’t heaps of changes between these two versions, so I’m hoping there won’t be any major side effects!

Please buy this for me. You don’t need an excuse, it’s just because you love me. Or Christmas. Whichever makes me get it faster.

Logitech® Performance Mouse MX™

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/5845&cl=us,en

And as much as I love my Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard, the wireless USB dongle which comes with the mouse supports a wireless logitech keyboard too, so I might have to borrow your keyboard to test it out (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/keyboards/keyboard/devices/6040&cl=us,en).

Don’t get me wrong, I love our house, but I love travelling and change and culture more.

So, here’s a short Google Earth placemark movie of 10 places I would live. Google Earth required. See if you can spot some recurring themes.

The Places I Would Live

So far I’ve been having fun with:

• Pulling a cross domain JSON file (can’t do it with XML I discovered) into my app
• Experimenting with jQuery and $.ajax
• Using some of HTML 5’s cool new features like LOCAL SQL STORAGE! (Can you believe it???!! Very handy)

I’m hoping to use Phone Gap to compile all my hardwork into a native app, so hopefully Apple doesn’t mind. I’m going to probably submit it by this time next week.

Stay tuned for more updates! Maybe even a sneak preview – email me if you want one.

Download it and take a look. It’s only been tested on Mac OS X 10.5, but there’s no reason it shouldn’t work in 10.4. There’s not, nor will there ever be, a windows version.

If you like it, please let me know. It’s free, not even donationware, all I ask is that you tell me that you like it. You can comment on this post if you like.

Please, also remember that it’s beta software, so if you find bugs (and you probably will), make sure you let me know what they are, as well.

So here it is, the DOWNLOAD LINK. Like I used to say to all of my customers when I worked for Uncle Tony’s Kebabs, ‘Enjoy’.

So what do you think? Do you like it? Better or worse than my last theme?

Here’s how to add Google Latitude to your iPhone as a web clip without Mobile Safari’s top and bottom navigation bars.

1. On your iPhone, go to http://carbis.fu8.com/iPhone/latitude (the capital ‘P’ matters)
2. Before you are redirected to the latitude page, quickly press the + button, and press Add to Home Screen
3. If the icon loads with a black background, you didn’t quite get it before it redirected – try again
4. Press Add in the top right hand corner

And that’s that. You’ll notice I also edited the ugly Latitude home screen icon so that it matches all of Google’s other web apps.

Hope you like.

I know this doesn’t make a terrible lot of sense, but that’s all part of the mystery.

(click for a bigger picture)

What do you think?

First of all, you’ll need to update your SRV records. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of them before, it’s really easy. Log into your domain control, and, in the same way you would add DNS records, add the following SRV records (replacing domain.com with your domain):

_xmpp-server._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.domain. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.domain. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.domain. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.domain. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.domain. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.

_xmpp-client._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 5 0 5222 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-client._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 20 0 5222 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-client._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 20 0 5222 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-client._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 20 0 5222 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-client._tcp.domain.com. IN SRV 20 0 5222 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.

The last five are the most important, and they’re not included in Google’s article on the topic. They are the part that lets you log in from a different instant messaging client.

Next, just add a Google Talk account, with the username being ‘username@yourdomain.com’ . It should all be good from there.

Let me know how you go, if this works for you (or if it doesn’t).