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Today I received 2 emails from a site I never heard from before, entitled Joomlaaa.com. Seems like a spoof eh ?

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 was released on August 27, 2001, shortly after Windows XP was finished. Now, 8 years later, both are outdated but still used by a multitude of users. That of course is little concern to the average joe, but it makes web developers everywhere want to kick the bucket sad.

But uncle Google is finally taking a firm stand against the evil overlord with taking IE6 out of the list of supported browsers for Gmail and showing users of the mentioned browser messages to upgrade to ither Chrome or Firefox. That same message was shown weeks ago to IE7 users, but later removed.

Here is hoping the browser wars will get interesting again. The standard is ready to boom out of proportion with more and more features being added by different engines regulary. But will the users follow, or stay with their captive untill they are finally left out in the dry ?

JoomKey is a joomla native mootools js virtual keyboard. It can be used on html inputs and textareas.

The language is based on the language of the currently viewed site/article. It comes with English, German and Slovenian keyboard but can be easily be fitted with any additional language. If you do create a language please send it to me so i can add it.

Download Module JoomKey 0.1.0

Tested on Firefox 3. Made in scope of the Institut-Oko Kiosk project.

(C) Marko Zabreznik

Image by via CrunchBase

I’ve found myself trapped on a Windows Vista environment for the next two weeks. The reason is that I recently bought a new PC and while installing OpenSUSE I realized the next mayor version is due in less then a month so I decided to stick with the then installed Vista Ultimate 64bit to avoid the hassle of upgrading the distro. That would also give me a opportunity to get some insight on the capability of the hardware using the operating system the accompanying software was written for.

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ScreenSave is a Javascript Screen Saver for Joomla! 1.5 (Uses Joomla’s native JS API).

It works just like any desktop image rotating screen saver. You specify a folder and it displays the images found there ( randomly on the screen ) after a specified time with a specified delay.
It also supports transparency and pre-loading.

Download: ScreenSave 0.2.0

Tested on Firefox 3 and Google Chrome. Made in scope of the Institut-Oko Kiosk project.

Backlink: extensions.joomla.org

How hard can it be to install a app for everyone to use, BlueHost ?!

Well, in any case. This is how to do it yourself ( source ):

cd ~
mkdir src
cd ~/src
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache/apr/apr-util-1.2.12.tar.gz
wget http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/apache/apr/apr-1.2.12.tar.gz
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
wget http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.25.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf apr-util-1.2.12.tar.gz
tar -xzf apr-1.2.12.tar.gz
tar -xzf subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
tar -xzf neon-0.25.5.tar.gz
cd ~/src/apr-1.2.12
./configure --prefix=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/apr-util-1.2.12
./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-apr=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/neon-0.25.5
./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install
cd ~/src/subversion-1.4.6
./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db --with-zlib --with-ssl LDFLAGS="-L/lib64"
make
make install


I Bought a Wacom Bamboo Fun Small Graphics Tablet a couple of days ago.
Wanting one for quite some time now, I decided to go and buy it on-line. And after 3 days, it came all the way from Germany .

I didnt even try running it on windows/mac before I plugged it into my ‘box running OpenSuse 11. First thing I notice: Its already working. Kindof.  It’s got relative tracking and the pad/buttons dont work.

How i got it running and some pics, after the jump. (more…)

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Spore, the multi-genre “massively single-player online game” by Maxis was succesfully tested on Linux trough WINE. The actual video after the jump.

Both the PC and Mac versions of the game will feature the full experience of cell through to space with editors for designing creatures, buildings, and vehicles. Spore for the Mac will be made possible through TransGaming‘s Cider Portability Engine, with experience gained from the past EA Mac titles.

Also, a side affect of the Cider port, its cousin project WINE has all the benefits. That also brings up the question why didn’t Maxis go and release the title under Linux.    (more…)

Just wanted to say how i LOVE my new Head-Crab plush toy i bought from the Valve Store.

Well, actually: Since Valve doesn’t include Slovenia in its shipping destinations, it wasn’t as easy to get one of these..
But thanks to a really good friend ( that means you Tami ;D ) i got it delivered from the USofA  today =)

Picks after the jump.

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