http://www.iacons.net Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:23:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you ever designed and sliced a website mockup in Photoshop running on Mac OS X then you probably faced this: you have prepared the slices and you have exported them but the result looks a bit washed out, especially on Windows. This is not a misfuction or a bug ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2008/03/21/washed-out-colors-in-photoshop-mac-os-x/ Two weeks ago Steve Jobs announced "the world's thinnest notebook", the Macbook Air and of course we all loved it. The one thing I admire the most on the brand new Macbook Air is its trackpad. As you may know the Macbook Air comes with an extreme trackpad where you can ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2008/01/22/macbook-air-do-we-need-the-click-button/ Strange and weird, but true! I was totally surprised yesterday to read that the upcoming version of Internet Explorer has successfully passed the Acid2 Face test. As you understand, these good news allow web developers to reasonably hope that IE will soon become (hopefully, in a few months) a standards-compliant ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2007/12/31/ie8-passes-acid2-test/ After three months of absence and inactivity I am back. Every once in a while, I need a little break almost from everything in order to refresh and organize my self as well as to take a look forward in my life. A lot of things happened during the last three ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2007/12/29/i-am-back/ I just received my first SMS spam message in english by "Mr. P. Chan" Att: I'm Chan from Hong Kong, I have a business proposal for you, should you be interested kindly contact me for further details partickwchank@yahoo.com.hk Regards Anyway, back to work :) Update: I keep getting these annoying messages from several persons ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2007/10/08/my-first-sms-spam-message/ My adaption process in Cyprus was smoother than I expected. After three weeks home, I feel like that I never left Cyprus despite the fact that I still get frustrated with some things. A great example of these, are ATMs which their operational mechanism has been altered recently. In fact, some ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2007/10/06/money-first-then-credit-card/ After returning home this night I had a look at my web stats which are running on Cinnamon; an open-source web statistics engine that I am developing. According to Cinnamon, the number of visits has tripled during the last day while 7 visitors were online! Initially, I thought that my ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2007/09/12/iaconsnet-on-cssmania/ My studies in the UK are almost over and in two days time I will be flying back to Cyprus. It goes without saying that during this year I have enjoyed and hated particular things regarding the UK. So, I decided to compile a list with all the things ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2007/09/05/goodbye-lancaster-goodbye-uk/ It is well known that cross domain AJAX requests (XMLHTTPRequest) are not permitted due to security reasons. Numerous workarounds exist such as cross domain JSON and Flash but some of them are not suitable for every single case. For instance, cross domain JSON assumes that remote server is able not ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2007/08/02/ajax-cross-domain-proxy/ Finally, after a couple of weeks waiting I got the approval for hosting one of my WordPress plugins in the official repository. It's been a while since I have prepared the first major version of "Clickable date" plugin but I was waiting for this moment to publish it! In brief, this ... http://www.iacons.net/writing/2007/07/30/clickable-date-10/