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Extremely choppy playback in Flash player
It is truly amazing how a computer can still surprize you and make you shake your head in wonderment, even after twenty years of computer experience. Since weeks I’ve had the problem that Flash movies were stuttering on my computer so much that I couldn’t even watch ordinary YouTube videos anymore. And I don’t mean…
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Strange error message in Poedit
I’m currently working on a PHP project that needs to offer possibilities of internationalization, i.e. the application should be translatable into any language with minimal effort. Since I had already come to know the mechanics of gettext from WordPress and was highly enthralled by its simpleness and effectivity, I decided to use this system for…
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“position: fixed;” flickering when scrolling in Firefox 3.5
Some Windows users may already have noticed it on certain websites: Since the update to the current Firefox version 3.5, fixed images (or fixed containers with background images) start flickering terribly when scrolling, so much that it almost hurts your eyes. So it was here on my site with the photos on the left and the…
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Dual monitor Flash player fullscreen hack
Wow, actually I thought I couldn’t top my five-noun post title “Live Ajax PHP regex tester, but now it happened. Looks a bit weird indeed. But let’s get on topic: If you have two monitors connected to your PC, you will probably have a movie run on one of them sometimes while keeping on working…
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Anti-aliasing in Firefox
Attention! This post is rather old. If you’re looking for information on the current Firefox 4 font smoothing problem, you should rather look here: Font smoothing in Firefox 4. Since version 7, I believe, the Internet Explorer has had this great font anti-aliasing feature. That is the fonts simply look prettier, smoother and less pixely there. I’ve…
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Date formatting with qTranslate
Almost a year ago I described here how I had managed to set up two different date formats for German and English in my WordPress theme. That’s why especially users of the plugin “qTranslate” ended up here frequently, because I had found a – rather muddled, but working – solution to show each language in…