22. December 2015

Pi-Hole – Hardware Ad Blocking for the price of a RaspBerry Pi

“The Pi-hole can block ads for all devices on your network. All you need is a Raspberry Pi connected to your router. It was inspired as a low-cost, open source alternative to the AdTrap. The Pi-hole works on the the B, B+ and Pi 2.”

Will be a nice reuse for one of my older Rasberry Pis …

Pi-hole @ GitHub

31. August 2015

Bootstrap 4 alpha & IE8 support

We are getting closer to Boostrap 4 and I really love what we are getting with the first alpha version.

Improved grid system
Opt-in flexbox support is here. Nice.
Dropped wells, thumbnails, and panels for cards.
Consolidated all our HTML resets into a new module, Reboot. Much cleaner.
Dropped IE8 support and moved to rem and em units. Finally REM units and IE8 free. I know there will be still projects with IE8 requirements, but the amount of projects is getting less and less :)
Improved auto-placement of tooltips and popovers. They are using Tether, have been using that for projects for some time now. GREAT!

Bootstrap Alpha 4 / Documentation

11. March 2015

Portfolio is back up

All sections are back up, including the portfolio. Doing a final cleanup and than I can move over to portalZINE TV for the bigger cleanup ;)

Portfolio

Cheers
Alex

10. March 2015

Redesign in progress …

This website and connected services are currently in a transition phase. We are redesigning everything and making some big changes.

Other areas will follow in the coming days.

Cheers
Alex

1. March 2015

Ubuntu Screenshots

Print: Save desktop
Print + Alt: Save desktop selection

1. March 2015

Mac OSX Screenshots

Command-Shift-3: The whole desktop
Command-Shift-4: Section of the desktop
Command-Shift-4 -> Spacebar -> Window-Selection: Save Window
Command-Control-Shift-3: Add Desktop to clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, Add selection to clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4 -> Spacebar -> Window selection: Add window selection to clipboard

1. March 2015

PCTV Broadway HD-S2 Links

A couple of interesting links for the PCTV Broadway HD S2

PCTV Links

Forum Links

Digital Eliteboard (German)

Extensions

BroadwayToIPTV Converter (XBMC Addon)
MPEG-2 Lizenz for the RaspberryPI / OpenElec Wiki
IPTV Simple Client
BroadwayAPI – PHP solution to convert playlists and EPG for Kodi / XBMC + SimpleTV

23. February 2015

PCTV Broadway HD-S2 Client for Desktop

The PCTV Broadway HD-S2 is currently my favorite network sat receiver. It is tightly integrated into many of our network clients.

As the PCTV Broadway HD-S2 provides a nice and clean REST Api, I decided to start writing a small desktop client to access the streams and recordings (My main focus is Mac OSX / Linux for now). Sure, you can use VLC for that or just use the web interface, but I wanted something more customizable .

The Broadway PHP Api is working nicely and I am tempted to integrate the same functionality into the desktop client :)

Basic functionality working so far:

Auto-discover Broadway on the network (which is more of a hack, but works nicely)
Check stream availability
Channel listing
Working on a channel preview grid
Select favorites
Watch live streams
EPG now and upcoming ….soon ;)

Cheers
Alex

20. January 2015

Today-Scripts – A widget for running scripts in the Today View in OS X Yosemite’s Notification Center

“A widget for running scripts in the Today View in OS X Yosemite’s Notification Center”

Latest Version – Github

Here a nice list of sample uses
Wiki
Reddit 1
Reddit 2

Example of colorized memory display

ps xmo rss=,pmem=,comm= | while read rss pmem comm; ((n++<5)); do
 
    size="$[rss/1024]";
    short=$[4-${#size}];
    size="(${size}M)";
    i=0;
    while ((i++ < short)); do size=" $size"; done;
 
    pmem="${pmem%%.*}"
    if   (($pmem >= 20)); then color=$'\e[31m';
    elif (($pmem >= 10)); then color=$'\e[33m';
    else                       color=$'\e[32m ';
    fi;
 
    echo "$color$pmem% $size $(basename "$comm")"$'\e[0m'"";
done

ps xmo rss=,pmem=,comm= | while read rss pmem comm; ((n++<5)); do

size="$[rss/1024]";

short=$[4-${#size}];

size="(${size}M)";

i=0;

while ((i++ < short)); do size=" $size"; done;

pmem="${pmem%%.*}"

if (($pmem >= 20)); then color=$'\e[31m';

elif (($pmem >= 10)); then color=$'\e[33m';

else color=$'\e[32m ';

fi;

echo "$color$pmem% $size $(basename "$comm")"$'\e[0m'"";

done

19. December 2014

Frohe Weihnachen, Vrolijk Kerstfeest, Merry Christmas …

Frohe Weihnachen und ein Frohes Neues Jahr!

Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!