If you ever needed to test something mail based on your local computer you may know the pain of waiting for the mail to be processed by your local smtp server and then delivered to your inbox, which probably just marked your test mail as spam. Well fear no more, because I found a solution to your problem! Mailcatcher is a … Read More
Lately I’ve been thinking how we could build an alternative for Googles Chromecast and Sonos Systems with Open-Source technology. The ideal solution would be something that could run on a Raspberry PI or similar device and which would be backwards compatible to the Chromecast API. However, performance could be a problem on such devices. The first problem is to find an … Read More
I’ve been looking for ways to remove Windows from my daily life. Sadly I’m still using it on my main desktop, because I use the Adobe Creative Suite and still play games on Windows. However I had a few ideas how to replace or at least minimize my Windows usage: Steam Streaming (Stream games over the network to my laptop. … Read More
I was looking for a Middle-Earth map to print out and really liked the map on http://lotrproject.com/map. Sadly enough there is no official download to get the map in a high resolution, so me and my buddy @manuelmeister hacked a script together to download all the tiles and create the final image from it. As we are both proficient with php, we … Read More
The TheaterJS simulates a human which is typing, by using a effect similar to typing on a typewriter. The plugin also simulates error inputs and occasionally types in the wrong letter to perfect the simulation. On the demo page of the plugin you can view the conversation between Luke and Darth Vader in Star Wars VI. You can set the … Read More
I’m currently working on a jQuery plugin as a side project. The idea behind it is to create articles with background sound, which changes based on the position on the page. I had the idea from the website http://www.travelepisodes.com/reise/antarktis-kreuzfahrt-antarctica-cruise/ where the background sound doesn’t fade out, but just abruptly stops. It would be much nicer if the sound would fade out as … Read More
Update: Apparently it doesn’t work in the beta version of chrome. Thanks to /u/aurimas_chromium for reporting the bug. (crbug.com/482291) It also only works if you have the option “Merge Tabs and Apps” turned on. Thanks to /u/plastix3000 You maybe knew that you could set the color of the navigation bar in chrome on android by adding the following meta tag to your … Read More
On regxr.com you can find a online regex tester. The match of your regex is automatically refreshed and you can also use substitutions. http://regexr.com/
If you ever had to create the architecture for a IT project you’ve surely heard of UML Diagrams. In this tutorial series I will show you how the UML Class Diagramm works with a few practical examples. UML is used to showcase the architecture of your system by giving you the tools to show the relations between your classes, the … Read More
The guys from chromeexperiments.com created a page with 1000 Google Chrome Experiments which were created by the users of this platform. You can sort them by date or even modify the source code in the browser to change the appearance of the bubbles. http://1000.chromeexperiments.com/