http://devoracles.com Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:13:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever heard of Clevo? I didn't, so when I got the call to test something from this firm my first question was what's a Clevo. Yeah, shame on me. So the very beginning of the review is what I've learned about Clevo. Clevo is a notebook and computer peripherals manufacturer from ... http://devoracles.com/clevo-m570-notebook-the-lamborghini-diablo-of-the-notebooks/525 I was thinking a lot why did Acer buy eMachines, a relatively small firm which always had problems keeping its business profitable. Then a few months ago they released their first notebook, the eMachines e510. Today I got the next notebook which they released, the Acer eMachines e520 and finally I ... http://devoracles.com/acer-emachines-e520-rock-this-world/513 I hate captcha systems, truly, madly, deeply. But spammers force us to create and use them. Writing captcha systems can be very easy. You need a randomly generated image, a hard to read font, and finally basic server side coding knowledge. I use PHP cos it's well documented and extremely easy ... http://devoracles.com/creating-a-basic-captcha-with-imagick/505 Some website's user interface (UI) can be a pain to use. That's because some areas are hard to read, nonsense pages exist or simply there's so much graphic on the site, the forms and texts are basically hidden from the eye. OK. I elaborate a bit cos not even me understand ... http://devoracles.com/a-social-network%e2%80%99s-ui-simple-yet-effective-with-javascript/503 OK, maybe that's a bit harsh title, but still. I work with a few people with disabilities and always wondered why the software developers don't create for them software which really works and is useful in the same time. There's Microsoft's speech recognition on Windows Vista, but that's extremely far ... http://devoracles.com/enable-mart-helping-the-people-in-need/499