Category Archives: browser

PHP Hack – How to Detect iPhone, iPod, Andoird, Palm Pre Browsers!

Posted on February 26, 2010 by max

One of our readers Titus just alerted me that Zedomax.com on smartphone browsers such as his iPhone will cause our e-mail newsletter lightbox to appear and make it almost impossible to get rid of.

Therefore, I’ve just put in a simple PHP code that will detect iPhone, iPod, Android, and Palm Pre browsers so there’s no more of that. Try PHP code something like below:

<?php $iphone = strpos($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],”iPhone”); $android = strpos($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],”Android”); $palmpre = strpos($_SERVER[̵

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jQuery Hack – How to Automatically Re-size Background Images!

Posted on February 24, 2010 by max
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For web designers out there who use photos as background images, you might want to learn how to automatically re-size background images, matching the size of the browser of the user.

You can probably use a complicated javascript for that but there’s a better way, you can use a simple jQuery hack for that, see Bavota’s hack here.

I just really dig how versatile the jQuery library is and all the amazing things you can do to a Web site with it. I had to creat

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Website Design Hack – How to Test your Website for IE6 Browser Compatibility!

Posted on February 23, 2010 by max
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Thanks to invent of Windows 7, I no longer complain about how Vista sucks but I ran into one problem, that of testing my new blog designs on IE6 browsers.  I do have an Eee PC netbook that runs IE6 still but it’s a pain to boot my netbook just to check my blog designs on the IE6.

For those of you already enjoying Windows 7, there’s a cool little free program called IETester that will let you check your

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DIY Web-Powered Robot!

Posted on January 22, 2010 by max
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Thinking of building a DIY web-powered robot that you can control through your browser or smartphone?  You might want to check out ioBridge ethernet control modules and this DIY web-powered robot made using them.

The robot uses a pair of serial bluetooth adapters to form a wireless link with the ioBridge IO-204. The serial levels of the IO-204 are TTL and a circuit u

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Germany Warns Against Use of Internet Explorer!

Posted on January 20, 2010 by max

Recently, I’ve been hearing a ton of tweets on Twitter about Google’s accounts being hacked by Chinese hackers. I guess it turns out security flaws in IE has been at fault. My suggestion? Use Firefox or Google Chrome, I find these new browser are faster and better than IE.

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security is urging people to stop using Internet Explorer because it isn’t safe and to find another web browser instead.

The warning comes after Microsoft admitted that it was a flaw in Internet Explorer that allowed Chinese hackers to get into Goog

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CoolPreviews 3.0 Brings In-page Previews! [Firefox Plugin]

Posted on January 19, 2010 by max

CoolIris, a Firefox plugin that lets you view media faster while browsing with Firefox, has just released CoolPreviews 3.0, which allows you to “preview” sites before clicking through them.  I just installed it, it works pretty well, we will see how well it works for the next few weeks. (Download the CoolPreview 3.0 Firefox plug-in here)

Say, you want to search the Web to see everything about Avatar, the new James Cameron movie. You query “avatar” in Google web search as usual.

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Game – “Browser Pong” Uses your Browser as Part of the Game!

Posted on December 19, 2009 by max

Looking to kill sometime?  Well, here’s a game that only involves using your browser to play the game itself, Browser Pong!

Best of all, this cool Browser Pong game supports 2 players so you and your friend can kill time LITERALLY!

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Browser Equality Might Actually Come Soon to Europe

Posted on December 6, 2009 by max

For awhile now, Europe has finally been trying to get things straight with Microsoft, who has been monopolizing browser market for as long as we can remember.

The EU’s antitrust case, which kicked off last January, had been sparked by complaints filed by Opera in December 2007, when the Norwegian browser maker accused Microsoft of shielding IE from real competition by bundling it with Windows. To level the playing field, the commission wants M

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Chrome Hack – How to Install Google Chrome OS on Eee PC!

Posted on November 29, 2009 by max
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Here’s a rather fun Chrome hack that shows you how to install Google Chrome OS open source Chromium on Eee PC.   I think this hack should work all across most Eee PCs as hardware is pretty much the same.  Also note that this uses a 4GB USB flash drive as boot, which allows install practically on most netbooks.

It’s actually a Chromium OS build by Hexxeh and he has a

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South Koreans and their Online Banking System on Windows Internet Explorer!

Posted on November 26, 2009 by max

The South Koreans have practically built all of their web-based businesses on IE.  I know this for a fact because I used to intern at a South Korean company back in about ’99 when I was forced to learn Microsoft’s ASP, good thing I quit after couple days, what a useless pile of technology. (in comparison to PHP that is)

For one, the South Koreans do online-banking over their cellphones, smartphones, and the Windows computer.  The difference between the Koreans and Americans is that Korean online banking allows instant transfers.  Koreans use online banking to do most o

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