Kaiser Soze's Blog

Working on my social repository

October 6, 2009 – 15:58
Unlike a few years ago I don't bother registering for websites or social services. Over these years I have registered for numerous social media websites, applications and services. The problem is I only use a very small percentage of them. I really like my Youtube and Flickr accounts but normally I find it to much trouble to keep track of all my social media profiles and updates. Therefore I wanted to do something about this problem, not only do I want my social networks to grow I also want to use them more actively. So I had to automate some stuff, for me as a user and for you as a follower. [ad#ad-2] First the ' easy updating'  part. I found a great service that does all the hard work for me, Pixelpipe. This great service allows you to upload messages and multimedia to a lot of services. More than 120 ...

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Picture Quality on BBC HD: a response

September 21, 2009 – 17:32
On the 5th of August BBC's new transmission encoders were taken into operation. After some questions from viewers they have decided to respond on their Internet blog. The blogpost is actually a response from BBC's head of BBC HD Danielle Nagler to an anonymous author. In my opinion this article gives a very interesting insight in the kitchen of world's biggest high definition br0adcaster: Hello Everyone I thought that you might like to see the detailed response which I have sent to someone who contacted me regarding the picture quality issues which are under discussion here: "...Your complaint refers to the introduction of the new transmission encoders for BBC HD which were introduced into operations on Wednesday 5th August. There was an extensive process of assessment in advance of the selection of new encoders for the BBC HD service, using both objective and subjective criteria. The encoders which were chosen then went through ...

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IE7 CSS fixes, The most common css solutions for Internet Explorer 7

September 4, 2009 – 17:43
The <!--[if IE]> Tag Problem: Various sizes, margins and padding attributes can display differently in Internet Explorer, this coded snippet can help you sort out these problems. Add this code with your required settings underneith your pages <style> or external style link: <!--[if IE]> <style> .item { margin: 5px; padding: 10px; } </style> <![EndIf]--> These setting will now only be loaded when your page is viewed in Internet Explorer. I often use this setting to tweak areas of my layout that do not quite display the same as in other browsers. Margin Auto Centering Problem: When centering div tags via either the margin-left: auto; or margin-right: auto; settings, this will not work in Internet explorer unless you add the following to your style sheet for the html body: html, body { text-align: center; } Don't forget to now add this to your paragraphs and headings as the above setting will now cause these to also center. p {text-align: left;} [ad#ad-2] Minimum height bug Problem: When trying to create a ...

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Hadu CCCam client Plugin for windows

August 4, 2009 – 23:28
While I'm testing my new satellite setup for a HTPC that has yet to be build I found a really usefull DVB plugin everybody should hear about. Finally a CCCam client for windows is available. First tests were very succesfull for me. Version Beta 0.1.0.0 was released June 23, 2009 this was a initial Beta Test release. The current version is 0.116. Find latest release and changelogs here. Download Hadu 0.116 Hadu is a CardSharing Client plugin for DVB softwares on PC using DVB TV-Cards (Windows). It works as a MD plugin, a DVBCore plugin (eg. ProgDVB) or as a DVBViewer plugin. Currently, it only supports the CCCam protocol (without the AU option). Installation: ------------- Just put Hadu.dll and Hadu.ini into the directory affected to plugins, regarding your current DVB software. It can be the directory of the software (i.e. for old versions of ProgDVB), or a given subdirectory (i.e. ./Plugins for MyTheater and Alt-DVB, ...

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The ultimate top list of top lists for web designers

August 2, 2009 – 14:18
Personally I'm a big fan of top lists on the internet. I like them on all kinds of subjects, being the best movies of 2006 or best swimming shorts for this summer, I read them all. But I have to say the most usefull for me are usually the top lists involving web design and programming. So being such a fan of top lists I decided to make my own. It's a top list on top lists, ha, thats funny right? To keep it simple it's not a top list on all top lists but just those I've found for web designing. [ad#ad-2] 16 Websites for web design inspiration A while backSixRevisions wrote "Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration", where he listed some of his favorite places to peruse when he's looking for design inspiration. At the end, he posed the following question to the readers: "Where do you go ...

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What happened on the 5th of July?

July 24, 2009 – 07:59
[ad#ad-2] The number of unique visitors for this blog is fairly stable since I have started writing articles for it. Approximatly seven to eight hundred people visit my blog every day. That's okay for me, the more the merrier but I don't intend to write my articles for huge audiences, my english isn't good enough for that as your Dutch probably isn't either. Besides that, a lot of my articles are only interesting for a very specific group of people who might happen to encounter the same problems as I do in our digital journeys. Anyway, since the 5th of July my visitors count is sky rocketing and I don't know why. All new visitors seem to be coming from Google´s image search and are watching Katy Perry nude. So I tried it myself and I show up as the first search result when searching for images with Google on different ...

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Kylie Minogue is George Michael

July 23, 2009 – 15:12
It seems pitching audio isn't just helpful for bypassing Youtube's audio infringement notices as it's also really fun to easter eggs in your favorite music. A few great ones were found by Rob Manuel. For example, did you know pitching Kylie Minogue makes her sound excactly like George Michael? Now you do! [youtube width="425" height="344"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZmkFmW5LXY[/youtube] [ad#ad-2] This is how Muse sound when you apply a 120% pitch shift. Coincidentally it is exactly like Gwen Stefani: [youtube width="425" height="344"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c_Ca506xPE[/youtube] So what happens, when lowering Gwen stefani's pitch? She sounds like Ricky Martin! Freaky! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBFjK7zl4_M[/youtube] [ad#ad-2] There seem to be a lot more of these, drop it in the comments if you know a new one. Some others found around the internet are: Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire" sounds like Dolly Parton (sort of) Mercy by Duffy, it sounds like Gnarls Barkley and Stevie Wonder Kylie and Rick Astley "I remember sampling both on my Amiga 500 and slowing down / speeding ...

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HDTV Glossary – the who, what, where in High Definition terms

July 16, 2009 – 10:10
Okay my bad, I published this article before it was supposed to. But it doesn't really matter as this glossary should be the start of a bigger "tech-nerd-1337-speak" gloassary. A lot of people ask to explain stuff in plain english if I go into "geek speak mode". Because I don't like to do stuff more than once, including explaining things, I collected, edited and re-published some well know glossaries found around the net. I'll post them on my blog and will try to link to it as much as I can when writing my articles. I did not write these glossaries myself, if you find something wrong let me know and i'll try to fix it asap. [ad#ad-2] 1080p 1080p is a high-definition video format with resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. The "p" stands for progressive scan, which means that each video frame is transmitted as a whole in a ...

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The magic behind the stars

July 14, 2009 – 10:04
I know, you´re suppose to look away the moment someone starts typing their password while you´re standing next to it. But i´m curious and this sort of stuff should be secured a lot better. So ever wanted to know what  is behind those magic stars in passwords? Say you want to know the password from a Facebook account that somebody else has typed and agreed to save it on that PC. Here are three methods to unravel the magic... [ad#ad-2] 1) In firefox Let's start simple. Just copy and paste the following javascript code in your address bar if you are on a website with a login form and the magic stars are displayed. [sourcecode language="javascript"]javascript: var p=r(); function r(){var g=0;var x=false;var x=z(document.forms);g=g+1;var w=window.frames;for(var k=0;k

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Good news on bad days

July 7, 2009 – 14:35
When I woke up this morning I really couldn't be bothered to get up and go to my internship. So suffering from a very bad morning mood I started my day. Supported by a cup of coffee I opened my e-mail and the first thing I read was just great. After a long time searching and sollicitating I got my dream job. I sollicitated a few weeks ago at NOS and they have chosen me as their new frontend-developer. For the non-dutchies, here's a little wiki info on the NOS: "The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS, Dutch Broadcasting Foundation) is one of the broadcasters in the Dutch public broadcasting system, Nederlandse Publieke Omroep. The NOS has a statutory obligation to make news and sports programmes for the three Dutch public television channels and the Dutch public radio services." I'm very excited about it and very happy to be given the chance to ...

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Bypass, Fake and get rid of Youtube’s audio copyright infringement

July 1, 2009 – 21:41
To make things clear: I do not support the use of copyrighted material on Youtube or anywhere else. Musicians and all other artists should be payed for their work. But the measures Youtube has recently taken to prevent the use of copyrighted audio just don't work. Youtube analyses the audio in the video's you upload and when the system matches it succesfully to copyrighted audio, all the audio get's muted. If so, Youtube will show you the following copyright message: Your video, Video with copyrighted music , may include audio content that is owned or licensed by WMG and audio content that is owned or licensed by UMG As a result, the audio track of your video is muted. The problem is, when you have put a lot ...

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