I really have been making some dumb mistakes the last few days.
Im suffering from a strange flu, so I think I will blame that on my scatterbrain and tendency to make the smallest problem a 3 hour ordeal.

Anyway, whilst sorting out my Virtualbox VM (Ubuntu Server) another of my php scripts broke. At the time, of course I presumed that it couldnt possibly have been anything I'd done, so proceeded to spend the next few hours scouring the web for others with similar problems.

Turns out in my inpatience, my first assumption was correct, which was that I had no ftp module installed on the machine.

A simple apt-get install proftpd would fix it right?
Yep, should have, but the download failed and three coffees later  I remembered that earlier, I had been playing with my hostnames and my vm wasnt getting an internet connection.

Doh.

Fixed the hostname problem, then installed proftp which of course opened up port 21 and all is good with the world again.

Well I have been trying to get my Virtual server running on Virtualbox and hit across the problem of "sockets not connecting" whenever trying to run an email method.

My custom CMS uses gmail to route mail through, so I really should have seen the problem straight away, but for those that also use a gmail setup to send email from their scripts, "Could not connect to socket" actually means.

"You dont have OpenSSL installed dummy!"

So I installed OpenSSL and its all running nicely.

Google have now released 150 invites to all who already have access, so I am putting my 150 invites up here for people to grab.

Go get em!

I've managed to fix a particularly annoying bug in Tabapp Pro today.

What made it quite confusing was that where users were reporting that it would simply force close when searching for guitar tabs, it seems it was something completely different.

When searching for a song, tabapp launches a dialog box with an animation to let you know that it is searching.
If nothing is found, that dialog box closes and another one opens letting you know that there were "no results".

The problem with this, is that if you navigate away from that search screen, whether your internet is slow and you do not allow it to finish, the process is still running in the background and eventually will still attempt to launch the dialog box, when the screen is no longer in the forefront.

Hence the force closing.

Ive now put a check in so that the dialog box does not show unless you are still on the search screen.

Problem fixed.!

Go on over and get the update!

TabApp PRO is our latest Android App release.

TabApp PRO is the successor to our FREE app TabApp FREE, and adds extra functionality, making searching and adding guitar tabs to the app that much easier!

Here is the description from Android Market...

Tabapp Pro is the new and improved version of Tabapp FREE.
This version has additional functionality to make searching and viewing your guitar tabs easier.

- Search for guitar tabs online
- View retrieved guitar tabs
- Save online guitar tabs to phone
- Sort tabs by band or song
- Add your own guitar tabs with copy/paste
- Pinch and zoom tab view
- Phone stays awake in tab view so that it doesn't sleep when viewing and playing
- You can also copy tab files from your pc to sd card and use in Tabapp Pro
       
Storage:
This version no longer stores tabs in a database, it stores them in files so you can connect your phone to your pc, and copy your favourite tab files over to use in Tabapp Pro.

When started for the first time, Tabapp Pro creates a file in the root of your SD card named 'tabapp' where it saves your tabs.
Simply paste your tab files (.txt) into this folder with the filenames formatted like this ('bandname_song-name.txt').
Please make sure that you replace the spaces with (-) dashes and seperate the band from the song with an (_) underscore.
       
Using Tabapp FREE tabs:
If you were using Tabapp FREE before, you can choose to export your tabs first, this creates the 'tabapp' folder and creates the tab files to use in Tabapp Pro automatically.
       
Errors/Bugs:
Please email spresser@gmail.com to report bugs or errors so that I may fix and update as soon as possible.
       
I hope you enjoy using this app!

Currently we are just waiting for our Google checkout account to be verified so stay tuned!