Where are the portable digital note taking tablets?

by amityadmin | Aug 4, 2011 | Technical

Am currently using an iPad with Penultimate note taking app, and using a Just Mobile Alupen stylus. I can see what I write and sketch, erase, colour and more. When finished I email it to Evernote. It’s fantastic. Almost. The problem is the iPad capacitive screen...

Adding a module position (loadposition) inside another module in Joomla

by amityadmin | Jun 1, 2011 | Technical

Here is a good way to use {loadposition} inside another module without hacking core files or using extensions in Joomla… 1) First copy templates/system/html/modules.php into your_template/html/ override folder so we don’t change the core file. 2) Then copy the...

Changing create date and time of video imported from Mini DV

by amityadmin | Apr 1, 2011 | Technical

I recently imported some Mini DVs of videos I took over the past year and a half but because iPhoto/iMovie orders them by create date and time, which is the imported file and not when the video was recorded, my videos were out of place in my ordering of photos and...

Replace Special Characters with HTML Codes in PHP

by amityadmin | Jul 14, 2010 | Technical

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...

Exporting Joomla Content as a RSS Feed

by amityadmin | Jun 16, 2009 | Technical

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...

Installing Tweetdeck and AdobeAir on 64bit Ubuntu 9.04

by amityadmin | Jun 15, 2009 | Technical

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...

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