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Athens international airport BSOD 29 Jul 2011 | 04:50 am
I’ve spent more time at Athens international airport than with my family and friends lately (which btw says a lot about my social life). One of the best things at the airport is the 1 hour free intern...
Change the height of all list items in order to float properly with jQuery 21 Jul 2011 | 07:27 am
Many times web developers use a floating unordered list in order to create a grid of items (like a product list). By using a list instead of a table, the developer doesn’t have to check if the number ...
Greek trams run windows 2000! 6 Aug 2010 | 06:44 pm
A few days ago I decided to use the tram line to go to a nice Vietnamese restaurant for dinner. When I got in the tram wagon, I was astonished by two things. The first one was its amazingly slow speed...
jQuery Liquid Carousel plugin 23 Jul 2010 | 08:51 am
Liquid carousel is a jQuery plugin intended for liquid designs. Every time the container of the carousel gets resized, the number of items in the list change to fit the new width. You can see how the...
KoalaZoom jQuery Plugin v1.0 15 May 2010 | 10:28 pm
This plugin makes images in an unordered list to zoom in on mouse hover and displays relative information. KoalaZoom was created in just a few hours. I’m planning on adding more effects and options i...
Save mp3 radio streams to file 12 Apr 2010 | 07:51 am
I use my HTC Hero to listen to music everyday while I walk to and from work. Who doesn’t, right? Unfortunately my favorite station (electricFM) is a internet station, so I can’t listen to it while I’...
Access s-video on p7131H tv tuner 22 Mar 2010 | 07:55 am
I recently bought an asus p7131H pci TV-tuner solely for the purpose of connecting my Wii to the 24″ monitor I have acquired. After trying for a couple of hours to access the s-video stream from diff...
Backup websites and MySQL database on a linux webserver 9 Mar 2010 | 07:06 am
One of the servers my company has, runs CentOS with plesk 8 on it. Unfortunately there isn’t any easy way to backup all the sites and databases on the server, so I created a nice simple script to do j...
What happens when ATMs run IE 6 7 Mar 2010 | 11:34 pm
I went to my bank’s (winbank) ATM this morning hoping to get some cash. The ATM was out of order though with a very familiar error message window. Someone has to tell them about the google chorme fra...
Make webcam mic work with Flash in ubuntu 9 Jan 2010 | 12:34 am
I have been trying for a long time to make Flash 10 use my webcam’s mic under ubuntu (9.04 and 9.10) with no luck. Flash settings only give one option in the microphone tab, and that is “Linux Microp...
