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Responsive Images: the solutions so far and a mixed new one

Posted in Code, Web Design, tagged , , , , on February 5, 2012 | 4 Comments »

I read the other day this fine article by Mat Marquis about his experiences, searches and conclusion on the issue of responsive images. It sparked my interest to look at the subject a bit more thoroughly. What are the responsive images? Or, better, what they should be? For a more elaborate explanation read Mat’s article. [...]

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A Calibre plugin for Greek book metadata

Posted in Code, tagged , , , , , , on January 19, 2012 | 4 Comments »

A few days ago, I sort of promised to deliver a plugin for Calibre for  greek book metadata. I had to dive into Python to accomplish this task but, as I said in the previous post, I had no Python knowledge. Thank God, all programming languages have many things is common. So, with the assistance [...]

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Bookmeta: a book metadata extractor for Greek books

Posted in Code, tagged , , , , , , on January 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »

You know how it is: you want something that no program/service provides and you end up making it yourself. In my case, what I wanted was a metadata source for my books in calibre. I use calibre not only for tracking ebooks (which is what is made for), but also for normal, printed books. I [...]

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I call it “Relief”

Posted in Tech News, tagged , , , on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »

IE6 and IE7 in between 10 and 20%? I call it “relief”. And I also call it, “not fast enough”. Still, IE6 being used more than IE7 is a kind of a perversion. The End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web Usage | Webmonkey | Wired.com.

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The Android Déjà vu

Posted in Business, Technology, tagged , , , , , on October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Since it’s inception, Apple meant to offer a combination of hardware and software to the consumer. Back in the ’70s this wasn’t really a novelty. Such was the paradigm of the Computer Industry in general. One needs only to think of IBM as a testimony to this claim. And then, in the beginning of the [...]

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Web things I came across lately

Posted in Technology, tagged , , , , , on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I have been doing a lot of reading and searching about web development issues lately. Actually it’s a catch up exercise for things that I should have followed but missed. So here is a list of a few projects that I was really pleased to discover. CSSLint For those that would like to have some advise and an [...]

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Opacity in Internet Explorer

Posted in Code, HowTo, tagged , , , on July 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »

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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Hootsuite can post to a WordPress.com blog

Posted in Social media, Tech News on October 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Hootsuite can post to a WordPress.com blog. I am really impressed by this feature. And the reason I am writing this post is to explore the capabilities. Does the twitter character limit apply? Can I upload pictures and videos? Update 1: The character limit does not apply as you can testify from this post

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The mobile OS future according to IDC

Posted in Technology on September 7, 2010 |

via betanews.com

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Is Social Search a threat to SEO?

Posted in Business, Social media, Technology, tagged , , , , , on November 5, 2009 | 13 Comments »

I think it is, and I tweeted so  yesterday.  And the reason is obvious. What is SEO about? Ultimately, it is about one thing: the ‘website’. It’s about making a website and its pages discoverable, ranked favorably in search results, described appropriately so that searchers hook on the description etc. But ‘websites’ are not ‘in’. Check [...]

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