At the moment i am working on my Geiger-counter which is based on this hardware, but has many more features added to it (GPS, SD-Card and Buttons). I will post more information as soon as i managed to fixate the last piece of hardware in the case.

While working on it i wanted to have a luminous LCD display and stumbled over a very nice piece of hardware: OLED displays from Electronic Assembly.

OLED displays have many advantages over classical LCD displays:
- Low power consumption
- Perfect contrast
- No viewing angle
- Bright
- Background is really Black

But after ordering a 2×16 OLED display for round about 30 euros from Reichelt i was not able to correctly use it with the Arduino LiquidCrystal library, it showed most the time pixel garbage.
At first i thought the display was broken, but as i was digging deeper into the matter i found that this display is only HD44780 controller “compatible”. What that means depends on the manufacturer.

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There are 3 issues i REALLY hate about the new Google search page:

1. The search is way too fuzzy, often i get results for an keyword only related to the keyword i entered
2. While i am typing the results page is refreshing, which results in an “optical flickering” of the whole page
3. After reloading (and other events i didn’t identify till now) the script sets the cursor on a more or less random point of the search string (or even rearranges the keywords), which results in me typing on places in the search string i didn’t want to

All those points combined compelled me to eliminate those issues with the tools i had at hand: The Opera browser.

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TimeWaster’s Banking Script is an advanced bank based on Eventscripts v1.5 and a SQLite database which makes it incredibly fast.
There’s an converter included to convert and copy “EternalBank” bank accounts for your easy switching pleasure.

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TimeWaster’s Happy Hour Script v1.0 for Counter Strike Source

This script will give every player weapons and equipment for free at the period you define.

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Bugfix Release v1.1 is available! For more info’s take a look at the end of this article.

YAST (Yet Another Standard Theme) is a good looking kubrik compliant theme for WordPress.

You are looking at it RIGHT NOW!

It is not only good looking, the additional features are really nice:

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This is a simple Bookmarks “Plugin” for Roundcube. With it, you can administrate all your bookmarks (or favorites) within the web-mailer surface.

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