It’s a little jquery patch I wrote after I found this post. I think this works better…. and in all browsers… Just copy it somewhere after the DOM is ready. (jquery.ready())

What the problem is; :hover is a css pseudo selector, but a event state in Javascript. (Or some thing like that…) So it only gives the right color on mouse over. Only than the selector is valid.

The fix is simple; rebuild the element on mouse over, so you find the right color. The rebuild has only to be done the first time you role over it. And after reading the Typeface-js source, I found the render method hack to fix the un-rendered text element in the new color. Done is my mesh up. Have fun with it.

$(".typeface-js a,a.typeface-js").hover(
	function(){
		if(!$(this).hasClass('typeface-js-hover-checked')){
			$(this).wrapInner('<span class="typeface-js-normal"></span>').append($('<span class="typeface-js-hover"></span>').text($(this).text()).css('color',$(this).css('color'))).addClass('typeface-js-hover-checked');
			_typeface_js.renderDocument();
		}
		$(this).find('.typeface-js-normal').hide();
		$(this).find('.typeface-js-hover').show();
	},
	function(){
		$(this).find('.typeface-js-normal').show();
		$(this).find('.typeface-js-hover').hide();
	}
);

I want to have internet all the time. And I have… I have a HTC Touch Cruise running Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro with a HSDPA connection. Now this is a way to connect the EEE to the HTC via bluetooth and use the windows mobile device as a gateway to the internet. By the way, I’m running Ubuntu-eee… If you are running Xandros, the default distro, try to Google on “Xandros bnep0 windows mobile”

First get the right software. Open a terminal and install the Bluez gnome utilities.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bluez-gnome


Now open the file ‘/etc/default/bluetooth’ and be sure that the following is set;

BLUETOOTH_ENABLED=1
PAND_ENABLED=1


Now I did a reboot, you could restart some services, but I was lazy. Now, after you insert your Bluetooth dongle (or when you have it build in), you should have a bluetooth icon in the upper right corner. With that tool you should be able to pair with your Windows Mobile device. If you don’t know how, try it the other way around, use your mobile to pair with your eee. After the exchange op pins the two devices should be paired.

Open up the terminal again and do the following command to scan for your mobile…

sudo hcitool scan

You should get something like this;

Scanning ...
00:17:83:xx:xx:xx HTC_P3650

This is the mac address of your mobile device and you’ll need it later on to connect.

Okay, we have a working bluetooth dongle and we can see the mobile… Now some config we need to have to get the link working. Append the following to ‘/etc/network/interfaces‘;

iface bnep0 inet manual
down dhclient -r -pf /var/run/dhclient.$IFACE.pid $IFACE
down pand -K
up pand -Q -n
up dhclient -pf /var/run/dhclient.$IFACE.pid $IFACE


We are done configuring the eee. The following steps should be made every time you want to get the eee online:

Open on your Windows Mobile device the application ‘Internet Sharing’, you can find it in your Programs folder. Start a Bluetooth PAN connection and wait for it to start.

Open up a terminal on you eee and do:

sudo pand -c 00:17:83:xx:xx:xx -n

Ofcource, you’ll have to replace the 00:17:83:xx:xx:xx with the mac address of your device.

You should get this as result:

pand[8033]: Bluetooth PAN daemon version 3.26
pand[8033]: Connecting to 00:17:83:xx:xx:xx
pand[8033]: bnep0 connected


Now bring the network interface up and get an IP from the windows mobile device:

sudo ifup bnep0


Now wait for the following result, it should look something like this:

pand[8060]: Bluetooth PAN daemon version 3.26
pand[8060]: Inquiring
pand[8060]: Searching for NAP on 00:17:83:xx:xx:xx
pand[8060]: Connecting to 00:17:83:xx:xx:xx
pand[8060]: Connect to 00:17:83:xx:xx:xx failed. Connection refused(111)
pand[8060]: Searching for NAP on 00:16:CB:xx:xx:xx
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/bnep0/00:10:60:a2:8c:dd
Sending on   LPF/bnep0/00:10:60:a2:8c:dd
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.85 on bnep0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.0.85 from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.85 -- renewal in 111983 seconds.

YES! We have an IP! You can double check with the ‘ifconfig’ command, or just try to open up Firefox and start browsing ;) Now close your eee, walk to the pub, get a nice cold one. Open your eee and start browsing the net ;) w00t!

To get the interface down again, use:

sudo ifconfig bnep0 down


Most of the info I’ve used, can be found in this forum post. Ive written a little shell shell script to bring the connection up, because it’s hard to remember all of this after some beers ;)


#!/bin/sh
sudo pand -c 00:17:83:xx:xx:xx -n
sleep 5
sudo ifup bnep0
echo "Drink beer!"

Don’t forget to make the file executable with ‘chmod +x myscript.sh’, or something like that…

It’s only easy with this Adobe Photoshop plugin. It’s a free and open source plugin available for Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3 for MacOSX and Windows. Also it works on PaintShop Pro.
To make a transparent favicon, just design your icon (32 x 32 pixels) with a transparent background. Resize your image to 16 x 16 pixels and choose ‘Save for the web’ and save the image as a GIF, with transparency on (duh!). Now reopen the GIF file and choose ‘Save as…’ and save it as a Windows Icon (.ico) file. And your done.
For an other way to do it on MacOSX with the free app ‘Graphic Converter’, check my older post ‘how-to-make-a-faviconico-on-macos-x‘.

Get lost in this site! This is realy cool for every hardware and web developer! This guy makes cool stuff! The site is dhtml and not flash! I repeat, not flash! I did somthing of the same stuff on this site.

My old iPod’s hard drive is broken. Here in the Netherlands a new hard drive for a iPod is about 70,- euro’s. Now on eBay (again) I found one for 10,- US dollars! Incl. shipment it’s 25,- dollars. Real cool. Now I have a iPod nano and a 20BG ;) If you are looking for a iPod disk, just browse eBay! I bought mine from this guy, will tell here if it arrived and if it worked. It is a used disk, so I’ll have to test it, but I’ve got hope ;)

Update: (23 jan 2007) It hasn’t arrived yet, but is has been send. I think that Dutch customs has it now… :(

Update: (24 jan 2007) It has arrived! Long live ebay! Tomorrow I will install it and check if it’s working or not. There is hope again!

Update: (25 jan 2007) I’ve installed the new one, but it doesn’t work. Have to test the disk more…

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Here’s something nice! This guide provides a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.

It’s so easy! Make an image of 16 x 16 pixels, 256 colors and save it as an GIF, BMP or any other format. (I saved it as an GIF file) Open the image in ‘GraphicsConverter’ from your applications folder. Save the image as a Windows Icon (.ICO) file and your done. Use the following HTML tag in yout page:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.ext/favicon.gif" />


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