Best of Web #3

Posted by Raffael on 11/11/2013 Posted in Best of Web Tagged Best of Web, BoW

Now it goes into the third round of Best of Web (#BoW). Every Monday, as promised, I post a few of my favorite internet finds. This week I’m a little late, but Monday just prior to 23:00 clock still Monday. (So I’ve reached my own goal again this week.)
Today there are some links about hardware and software hacks, IE toolbar programming and WordPress speed optimization. Also featuring: A infographic for nerds, the answer to the question “How to cluster a handful of Raspberry Pis?” and a short video to your general amusement. Let’s go!
Use the Raspberry Pi as Babel Fish
Ok, it’s not a real Babel fish, but Dave Conroy’s Raspberry Pi project is getting close to Douglas Adams Babelfish. He has “taught” the Raspberry Pi to translate between a lot of languages using various online […]

RadioduinoWRT – a do it yourself webradio

Posted by Raffael on 11/05/201303/21/2015 Posted in Arduino, Hardware Hacks, HTML, OpenWrt, Personal stuff, PHP, Tutorials Tagged Arduino radio, Arduino web radio, MPC, MPD, OpenWrt, OpenWRT MPD, OpenWRT web radio, RadioduinoWRT, TP-Link WR703N, WR703N hacks, WR703N lighthttpd, WR703N lighttpd, WR703N web radio

RadioduinoWRT Today I want to present you one of my larger craft projects. This time it is not just about software, but also about the associated hardware. What is it? A web radio!
I like to listen to internet radio stations, but I didn’t want to run my pc only for listening to webradios. Connecting my phone to my stereo either wasn’t a solution, since I’d rather wear this with me, because I don’t want to run for each SMS / Whatsapp message to the music system. And because I always like to tinker, it was obvious to build a web radio as a standalone device myself.
As this article has become a bit longer, there is a brief overview of the following sections of the article, so that everyone can quickly find what he looks for.

What is the RadioduinoWRT?
Considerations before […]

Best of Web #2

Posted by Raffael on 11/04/2013 Posted in Best of Web Tagged Best of Web, BoW

It is once again Monday and as I explained to you last week, that is from now on my “Best of Web”-day. That means on every Monday I will post an article with my personal finds from the internet – just the “Best of Web”.
Whoever has missed the first roundup, can find it right over here. By the way – I would really love it to get an email or comment from you, if you have suggestions and recommendations for the upcoming roundup.
Otherwise, if you have no more questions, it’s now going on with “Best of Web”- round 2. This week with some nice infographics, a C# do-it-better blog and some tutorials.
Notifications with CSS
For a current web project I was looking for a way to display messages/notifications to the visitors of the website. Actually there are hundreds of guides […]

Update: WordPress2Doc 1.1.0.0

Posted by Raffael on 11/04/2013 Posted in Downloads, Wordpress Tagged bugfix, Update, Wordpress2Doc

Wordpress2Doc Version 1.1.0.0 Short info: After Habared has kindly told me on GitHub that my “WordPress2Doc” tool has a few problems with UTF-8 characters, I took time and wrote a small fix.
In fact, I had missed the character encoding in the HTML code that is embedded in both, the generated .docx- and .pdf-documents.
The latest, UTF-8 compatible version of WordPress2Doc can be found both in the main article and on GitHub. I would appreciate any feedback!
Download WordPress2Doc

How to pixelate images using Javascript

Posted by Raffael on 10/30/2013 Posted in HTML, JavaScript, Tutorials Tagged Close Pixelate, how to pixelate images with javascript, JavaScript, JS, JS Canvas, pixelated images with javascript, use js to pixelate

Today there is again a bit of Javascript code. The exact topic is about how you can pixelate images via Javascript. This has both advantages and drawbacks, which I would like to briefly point out once below.
Advantages:

Pixelation can be done dynamically (Manual effort in your graphics program falls away. Graphics must not be known beforehand.)
The computational power required is outsourced to the client side. In contrast to a server-side solutions (eg using PHP & Imagick), the computational load is distributed to the users. This helps to keep the server load low, if you have a lot of visitors.

Disadvantages:

The pixelation should be used rather as design or graphic effect, since the data is only sent not pixelated to the client. So if you really want to hide faces and picture information the pixelation still needs to be done before delivery […]