This is an ancient problem: older versions of IE do not support the opacity CSS property. Instead, IE8 uses -ms-filter and IE prior 8 uses filter. Also, in IE, one has to be cautious about the positioning of the element the opacity properties apply to: the element has to be positioned for the filter to [...]
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Opacity in Internet Explorer
Posted in Code, HowTo, tagged css, IE, internet explorer, jquery on July 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Facebook Feeds
Posted in HowTo, tagged facebook, feeds, RSS on August 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I added a Lifestreaming plugin to my blog recently and as I was entering the feed urls of the various Web 2.0 sites I am participating, I stumbled upon the Facebook problem. Since its last change, the old mini-feed feed has disappeared, so one has to reassemble it by its components. I was particularly interested [...]
Tethering through a Nokia N95 phone
Posted in HowTo, tagged Macbook Air, N95, nokia, tethering, Vodafone on August 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am ‘locked’ up today in my mother’s house, which, quite unsurprisingly, does not have internet access. One option is to steal my way to the net through a neighbors’ open wifi. Not without some odd problems though: I can open my Gmail in https, send and receive mail as normal, I can browse pages [...]
Moving Gmail accounts
Posted in HowTo, tagged Gmail, Google Account, Google Analytics, Google Docs, Google Documents, google reader, Google Talk on November 19, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Problem : I had this old Gmail account and all its paraphernalia (Google Reader, Google Docs, Analytics, etc) which was named after a ‘nick’ I used in my first blogging days. Recently I decided to consolidate my various email accounts in Gmail and since some of them were business accounts I did not want customers [...]
Media Manager for WordPress
Posted in HowTo, tagged media, tips, Wordpress on October 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
From time to time, I like to write a kind of how-to or tip post, usually a result of tweaking the tools and services that I use. Here is a little one for wordpress. If you have used before an open source CMS, what you probably are missing in wordpress is the media manager functionality [...]
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