I sometimes wonder what monsters haunt the nightmares of Apple’s resident designer, Mr. Jonathan Ive. He’s so prim, so meticulous, so clean and proper, but on those nights when he has a slice of pepperoni pizza a little too close to bed time, what horrors does he dream up? Some horrible Cenobite iMac dragging itself bloodily across the floor whispering “Make way for the new flesh:” a biomechanical monstrosity of Foxconn components crammed into the pulsating sack of some skinless, cancerous stomach?

Or is it something more like this cardboard box Hackintosh, put together by the guys over at One Block Off the Grid — a cooperative for buying photovoltaic solar panels at a group discount — after one of their Macs proved too slow to run Adobe After Effects?

To make this Hackintosh, the One Block Off The Grid chaps simply ordered $900 worth of components from Amazon, including a 2.66 Intel Core i5 CPU, a 1 TB hard drive, 8 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM, and an XFX Radeon HD 5770 1GB DDR5 Graphics Card, and installed it inside the cardboard box in which it had all arrived. They installed Snow Leopard on the finished machine using iBoot Multibeast.

The end result? The performance equivalent of a $2700 Mac Pro in a $900 ghetto package. Jonny Ive must feel invisible insects crawling all over his body right about now. Some things were not meant to be.

[via Gearfuse]

Many PHP programmers facing this issue and hitting same wall which is already hitted.

PHP itself provides the mail() function to send emails. In this article I will show you the options of sending email using PHP language.

If you are using linux or windows hosting service for running the PHP application. PHP mail() function uses the sendmail mail server to send emails.
If sendmail mail server is configured and running on linux server then only mail() function is able to send the emails.

First we will talk about mail() function. You can pass the following parameters to mail function.

mail(to,subject,message,headers,parameters)

Sample code as follows: Continued