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Openfire XMPP Admin password recovery

I tried to login today after a long time into my XMPP Server via admin console and to my surprise none of the passwords i normally use worked, hence the conlusion: “I forgot the password”. In order to change the password for the admin user i logged into the database and manually changed the Column [...]

Recover IPhone contacts / AddressBook from ITunes backup

Imagine that your iphone is frozen like mine, and all your contacts are gone along with it! if you are a impatient person like me and dont want to wait any longer then keep reading and we will get your contacts for you  as long you have synched your iphone contacts atleast once with itunes. [...]

Tunnel HTTP Data through ssh/remote machine

How often have you been blocked from viewing certain http content? Well heres a work around to that, which is to tunnel http traffic through a ssh tunnel to a remote machine. Since i use Fedora as my primary workstation,  the scope of this article will be limited to linux systems. window users may go [...]