Author: Frank
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99q.eu – QR codes made easy
This post explains the usage of my website 99q.eu, a site to build very minimalistic websites such as this one and use them for various scenarios. Underlying idea The main idea behind this site was: I needed a quick way to create a QR code which contains some basic information, e.g. my contact data or…
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unspontan.com: Neue features / New features August 2022
For English version, see below. Ich habe eine Reihe von neuen Features für unspontan.com eingeführt: Automatische email-Benachrichtigung unspontan.com sendet jetzt eine Erinnerungs-Email für den nächsten Termin einer Gruppe. Als Administrator muss man das im Menü “Gruppe” einstellen: Dann werden zu diesen Zeitpunkten Emails an alle Benutzer dieser Gruppe gesendet, die eine bestätigte Email-Adresse haben und…
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Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5
Introduction Since a few weeks I own a Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5, a small device with e-Ink display, running (a quite old version of) Android. I ordered it on AliExpress and got it shipped from China to Germany in roughly two months. Google for “Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5” to read some reviews. This is a…
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c99.chat: Technical blurb
I run c99.chat, a no-registration, no-installation, no-cost ad-hoc chat site. Try it! This blog post describes some technical details of this site. Plain php/MySQL The site is made with plain, hand-coded PHP. No Angular, React etc – mainly because it grew from an experimental page and I missed the moment to switch to a good…
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9blox.com: Adding a Google calendar
This is one of several help pages related to 9blox.com. You can add a block which displays the upcoming events (for the next month) of a public Google calendar. Use this for example to display upcoming events, availabilities of a venue or for similar ideas. Get the calendar ID from your Google calendar First of…
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Installing MyDS App for DS cars successfully
I own a DS Crossback 7 E-Tense. This is a plugin hybrid car. Nice design, good technology, not cheap.Together with it there are various Apps both for iOS and Android, as with any modern car, specifically with cars that claim to be “the future”. Well, the Apps made by DS are rather from the past.…
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Running your own photo gallery
There are thousands of photo gallery scripts and tools out there. I played around with Piwigo, an open-source php-based solution that has been around for many years and is actively improved continously. My site faces.photo (now inactive) runs on Piwigo version 2.10, which is the latest version at the time of writing this post. Installation…
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Display progress in a circle with JQuery and PHP
On my unspontan-site, I use some Javascript stuff as published by kottenator. See the linked GitHub page for examples. At unspontan.com (which is used to count attendance of people, e.g. for an upcoming soccer training), I use it to display the numbers of participants that have given positive feedback; if that total number is below…
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Add your own App to Slack
Overview So you want to create an App in Slack – meaning that you add new commands in Slack (e.g. “/mynewcommand”) which Slack users of your workspace can use to execute certain functionality. Your App provides this functionality. This is useful for example, if you run Slack in a company workspace context, and you want…
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Playing around with QR codes
Almost all smartphones have a built-in QR-code reader meanwhile (inside the camera), or at least a good QR code reader can be installed (e.g. QR Droid for Android). Use a QR code to link to a manual Besides using QR codes in marketing and advertisement, you can use them as information stores, for example for…