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Upgrading your Canon 720 camera with a help of CHDK

I was really frustrated over weekend with my Canon 720. This is really great camera but have couple of software glitches that are really annoying, and one of them is that batteries drop death while I was taking some video, grrrr... Main reason for this is that stupid Canon OS will not alert you that batteries are low until last 1-2 minutes before it will shut down camera completely.

Drupal scalability in test

For all of you that are thinking that Drupal is consuming, slow, not optimized, etc.. here is very nice post showing that things are quite opposite

Bang! The starting gun went off. Later that day Jon posted Drupal is RAD to his blog about how impressed he was with Drupal: "In an hour, there have been over 1,200 comments."

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Where is Drupal going?

Here are couple of nice interviews with Dries in which he speaks about future of Drupal and Acquia. First one is from cnet, and second is from webmonkey.

Among many nice things here are couple of them I would like to point out:

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Panels meet Drupal Organic groups

Ogranic group module was recently updated and one of new feature is integration with Panels module through og_panels. Thats means that now groups admin can set extremely flexible page layouts for their groups. So you can easily build something like this (screenshot taken from drupal-dojo group):

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Drupal vs ExpressionEngine - comparison

Recently one client ask me to do comparison of Drupal and ExpressionEngine, two well know CMS. Comparison lasted 3-4 days and it was also informative to me because, before that I never heard about EE - it appears it is commercial CMS that is very capably and it is interested to see how Drupal will compete with commercial product.

Dries has launched another Drupal service - Mollom

After launching Acquia, which is a company that offers commercial Drupal services, Dries (founder of Drupal) is now launching new service called Mollom.

Mollom will be similar to Askimet and basic functionality will be to stop spam on your Drupal site. But Mollom will be more then that:

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Preview of KDE 4.1

Here is a very nice article that review new features of KDE development version 4.1. There are so many news and so many enchantments over 4.0 version that that is simply astonishing. It seams that version 4.1 is already very stable. I sure hopes that when it arrive we can all say goodbye to god all KDE 3.5 :))

 

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We have switched hosting provider

After lots of problem with our old hosting provider we have decided to switch to new one. Hopefully this time everything will be OK ;))

A little time is needed to change propagate through all DNS's so if you are experiencing problems accessing our site this evening sorry for that.

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Unlocking iPhone

Recently I recived 8Gb iPhone and like most of people that are not living in USA, phone didnt worked with my SIM card. After couple of hours of googling and thinking is it better to go to local service that will charge me 30euro for unlocking I decided to take a chance with Zibri Ziphone.

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