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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I call it “Relief”
Posted in Tech News, tagged browser, IE, IE6, IE7 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.
The Android Déjà vu
Posted in Business, Technology, tagged Android, apple, iphone, Microsoft, MS-DOS, Steve Jobs 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 [...]
Opacity in Internet Explorer
Posted in Code, HowTo, tagged css, IE, internet explorer, jquery 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 [...]
The mobile OS future according to IDC
Posted in Technology on September 7, 2010 | Comments Off
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Is the Salmon protocol tasty enough?
Posted in Technology, tagged Aggregator, atom, comments, digital identity, protocol, salmon on October 18, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Conversations on the social web are mostly performed through comments. But comments are so fragmented! Consider this example: Publisher publishes a blogpost A regular reader of the Publisher comments on the blogpost Someone else reads the post in Google Reader and shares it Another comments and reshares the Google Reader item Another decides to share [...]
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