A while ago I bought 40pcs poly-crystaline solar cells (5 x 2 cm2) with the hope that I will find some spare time to build a small 5W solar battery charger. Each cell provides an average of 0.28A @ 0.5V…
5W solar battery charger for 5 bucks
Fake alarm system to trick burglars
I have an apartment in a building where all the tenants have their storage room in the basement. I use it to store various old things there, just like anyone else. These days someone has cut one of those two…
Dropbox OAuth authentication
In the last three days I worked to create a WordPress plugin that simply creates a multi-volume compressed backup for a specified directory (eg. entire website) and then uploads it on my Dropbox repository. Maybe I will write an article…
Undelete files on Linux
To continue my series of "Oops i did it again" I would like to explain few methods that allows you to undelete files on Linux. One of the fastest and easiest method I found so far is with the help…
Inject JavaScript code WordPress
In my previous article I have proved the concept of injecting PHP code in a WordPress post/page. WordPress is a very well written CMS driven by a plug-in architecture. If you want to insert some JavaScript code into a WP…
Inject PHP code WordPress
In this article I proved the concept of injecting JavaScript code in a WordPress post/page, so don't miss it. WordPress is a very well written CMS driven by a plug-in architecture. If you want to insert some PHP code into…
No protocol specified
If you get the error below while you are trying to launch an application under Wine (or even while you just work on Linux without knowing what is or using the Wine): No protocol specified Application tried to create a…
XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
If it happens to get the following error message while you are compiling some program from source code: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool then you should know the real…
Remote Desktop on Linux
This article provides a brief insight of what is and what to use as Remote Desktop on Linux. I'm not trying to describe the concept itself because nowadays everyone should already be familiar with it. I would rather try to…
How to link keywords to Wikipedia automatically
Just to help my blog being user-friendly I have created a simple plugin for WordPress that basically analyzes your web page content and links some words (those it decides that are important) to their respective Wikipedia page. This is the…