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Bookmeta: a needed update

Yesterday, while I was trying to show a friend the calibre plugin I have created to extract and retrive Greek Book metadata, to my surprise, I saw that it was not returning much. Obviously the biblionet page had changed and

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

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

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Posted in Code, Web Design

I call it “Relief”

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

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The Android Déjà vu

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

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Posted in Business, Technology

Web things I came across lately

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

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Posted in Technology

Opacity in Internet Explorer

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

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Posted in Code, HowTo

Hootsuite can post to a WordPress.com blog

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

Posted in Social media, Tech News

The mobile OS future according to IDC

via betanews.com

Posted in Technology
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