Computer Technology

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Costa coffee - gift card

The new offer from Costa coffee is fantastic.
The new offer is about giving you points with each transaction for example 40 points worth 40 pence. From my personal experience its worth because it rewards people like me that visit Costa very often.
Starbucks they did the same but they give you discounts etc, i dont like discounts, rewards yes!

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Cyprus Internet Radio

Recently i found that if you want to hear your internet radio on the web consumes too much resources.
What i did?
I create my own application that has internet radio stations, the program was build in VB.Net (i know why not C++? A: Faster)
Everyday i google for more internet stations and soon i will have them all integrated in my program.
For the momment i have only Cyprus and Greek channels
the program includes windows media player and msn plug in
windows media player for playing the music and msn plug in to show in what i hear a message
here is the link
download
IT INCLUDE UPDATE FOR THE ERROR THAT CAME UP

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

How to get system uptime in windows XP

Windows XP Professional just type systeminfo in a cmd window
Windows XP Home you have to download this program from here and copy it to windows /system 32 i think

remember this program is a command line program and will vanish if you dont open it from a new cmd window

Thursday, 22 October 2009

how to show developer tab to the ribbon office 2007

In the office 2007 if you want to show the developer bar in the ribbon you have to do:

click on the office button

after go to the word, excel options

and select show developer tab in the ribbon

Sunday, 4 October 2009

jQuery Sliding / Toggle Effect on Divs

Watch this video to learn how you can make your website slide content on the press of link just like facebook

How to do a Javascript AJAX loader with jQUERY

Very nice video on how to use the jquery in your website
saves you time and money

Monday, 31 August 2009

Javascript code for the status bar

In the status bar of the browser you can set a text the time or what ever its up to you.
If you complete this `tutorial` and you still dont see the status bar message
go to enable-javascript-to-change-status-bar
how to use this feature
Create a new html file create a new script area (javascript) and create a function
i will name my function startScript()
the code for changing the status message is window.status = text

<html>
  <head>
    <title>
      http://cycomptech.blogspot.com/
    </title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      function startScript()
      {
        var stavros = "This is a test!";
        window.status = stavros;
      }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body onload="startScript();">
    <center>
      This page demonstrate the status bar of the browser<br>
      using javascript<br>
      <a href="http://cycomptech.blogspot.com/">http://cycomptech.blogspot.com/</a>
    </center>
  </body>
</html>