Category Archives: Internet

expansys’ unrealistic stock and status…

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Raphael

See update at the bottom (Thursday 13th October) I wanted to order a new Canon DSLR. After looking at different online shops, I decided to use expansys for 3 reasons: The prices were similar to all the other shops I … Continue reading →

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Holidays calendar in Google Spreadsheet with scripting

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Raphael

At work, we found that the easiest way to track holidays (days off) was to use a Google Docs spreadsheet. The only issue we had was to keep track of the days taken by each of us, but scripting came … Continue reading →

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15 years online!

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Raphael

Last month (February 2011) marked my 15th year anniversary of internet activity. It started at the end of February 1996 on my first Windows computer (Windows 95 was magic… was it not?) and an old 14,400 modem from my Atari’s … Continue reading →

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Updated movie collection is online

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Raphael

Using DVDpedia, I have placed online our list of movies. The template used for the export is Antracite but with some tweaks. First, I have created my own banners using different covers. Then I have changed few things on the … Continue reading →

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APN Settings for Vodafone: OK for all Android phones

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Raphael

I have lots of visitors searching for the Vodafone Ireland APN settings for their HTC Hero that I published in this post but you might want to know that these are working (tested!) on HTC Tattoo, Motorola Milestone. In theory, … Continue reading →

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Dynamic charts with Google Chart API

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Raphael

Google Chart API will let you generate charts dynamically to be used on any web page. For example, the following IMG tag will create a 3D pie chart: <pre><img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart? cht=p3&amp;chd=t:60,40&amp;chs=250×100&amp;chl=Hello|World" alt="Sample chart" />

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