If you’re having trouble logging in to the Rhapsody website and you are running Firefox 3 on Ubuntu (or possibly other flavours of Unix) then the following might be useful.

If, every time you try to log in to the Rhapsody website, you are asked to install the Firefox plugin, even after apparently installing it, then the plugin is not getting installed correctly.

To install the plugin manually try -

Start a shell prompt

Then restart Firefox.

Hopefully, now you should be presented with a username/password box when you try to log in rather than the plugin install prompt.

I really like the delicious plugin for firefox and have been recommending it to people for a while now.

Recently though using the plugin with firefox 3 on both Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) has been a real pain. “Favorite Tags”  and “Tag Bundles” have been disappearing and losing their settings. This has been going on for a few weeks now and the developers have been working hard on resolving the problem, which turned out to be a corruption in one of the settings files.

They have released a beta fix for this problem, which you currently have to sign up to a Yahoo group to download. Details of the problem and how to obtain the patch can be found here.

Hopefully they will release a mainstream version of this patch soon!

I love my new Blackberry Curve! I had a small problem setting up the Google Calendar Sync and thought this might help someone else.

I had no problem installing the software from http://m.google.com/sync – just point your Blackberry web browser at that URL.

However, when I logged in and tried to sync my calendars (I have 5 different calendars setup) I only saw “Default Calendar” listed under “My Calendars”.

It turns out this was because I was logging in to Google Sync using a secondary e-mail address I have assigned to my Gmail account (ie I was logging into Google Sync using user@mydomain.com rather than user@gmail.com)

When I logged in to Google Sync using my Gmail username (user@gmail.com) all of my calendars were listed under options after the initial sync.

Dan Goodin has written an interesting article for theregister.co.uk about the benefits of using a personal VPN for your wireless internet traffic.

There are some downsides to running a VPN server at home. One of these is that all of your data must travel via your home PC/server and most peoples broadband connections will limit the speed that this will work at. The maximum speed of your VPN connection will be limited by the upload speed of your home broadband – which is normally quite slow. Also, dynamic IP addresses, port forwarding and NAT on your broadband router and having to leave your home PC powered on all the time could be a pain.

Another alternative could be to run OpenVPN on your own server (or vps) at a data center or, a cheaper alternative, to buy access to an OpenVPN server that has already been setup and configured.