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Connecting to an external monitor/TV via HDMI First I tried connecting my Chromebook to a TV from Samsung. Unfortunately, like every PC, it showed only part of the laptop screen and the edges were cut off beyond the TV glass, but Chrome OS has a great feature that Windows 8 lacks: you can shrink and/or …

.. by Muhe I have to say the video is great, it’s just that sometimes people have no choice but to do work they don’t enjoy simply to survive financially. But that is up to each of us, and up to changing the system, so that everyone can focus on what they enjoy as soon …

VyhledavaniFulltext.aspx This page now has a new button that, when clicked, shows you some information – first of all, how long the server took in total to process your query. Second, the other 2 pieces of information are links to this search. This is useful when you search for something and want to show it …

This time the changes happened mostly under the hood. I fixed several bugs and optimized how page visits are saved to the DB. My DB suffered from one flaw: I used a method for saving to the DB, but forgot to use the method for saving to the DB at a specific index instead (even …

Today I took a little break from rewriting my older Windows Forms programs in WPF, because I was terribly bored of wading through code when I had no idea why I had once written it that way, and I started thinking about how to liven up my website a bit. It occurred to me that …

After the ThunderBrigade website, this is another thing I really wanted and more or less needed. I used to have one, back when I had free hosting on Endora with the YOURLS shortener on it, and everything worked fine, but then I probably stopped using it and Endora deleted the site due to inactivity, including …

Lately I have been catching up on unfinished business that I always wanted to have done already, but there was always either other work, or I simply never got around to it for worse reasons, for example that I did not even feel like opening Visual Studio. Now I have found my second wind (and …

Yesterday Muhe explained a few things to me about self-confidence and how to gain it, so now I will try to pass it on to you here. When Muhe and I were talking about how to gain self-confidence, the first thing I wrote was that a person has to set goals in life, and that …

Today I ran into problems coding pages where one had a taller #content and the other a taller #vmenu, and not even JS/jQuery scripts helped, so I went looking for another JS solution. Until now I thought (and honestly I was surprised it could be so) that this could not be solved with pure CSS, …

Think about it: I call and send texts in roughly equal measure (in terms of how much I pay for them), so if I did not exceed my Vodafone credit of 350 CZK by a single cent, it would get me 147 texts and 34 minutes of calls. With Vodafone I would pay 89 + …