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Changing create date and time of video imported from Mini DV

I always struggle to properly convert special characters into HTML when adding to a web page or importing into a database… the foreign characters with accents like Umlauts etc.
Although PHP has a few functions that claim to do it (e.g. htmlentities() ) , it does not work for all characters I have, just some of them.
So I have written a script to do a find and replace on the characters without using PHP built in functions.

Joomla 1.5 supports exporting your section or category listing page as a RSS Feed right out of the box. So if you have a menu item linking to your latest news category for example, you can export this as a RSS Feed for others to add to their RSS Readers. The benefit is of course those readers will read your news updates without having to visit your site.

Here is an overview on how to install Tweetdeck and AdobeAir on 64bit Ubuntu. There are a few sites with instruction but none of them worked in total, so have spent a few hours combining them together which worked for me. You will need Flash Player 10 installed, a link is provided for this if you don’t have it.