After not using my Acer Aspire One netbook for a couple of months I needed it again for school. It didn't boot, as the battery was completely discharged. I tried recharging the battery but that didn't work. Even after a couple of hours charging, the battery indicator in the task bar still said it was charged for 0%. It seemed to be a problem with its BIOS, the netbook simply didn't recognize its battery anymore.
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As I'm convinced that it's just a matter of time before QR (Quick Response) codes are a standard in our daily lives, I played around a bit. I found out that Google added QR codes to their Chart API, and wrote a little piece of code.
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On the websites of major United States television channels you can watch full episodes of their most popular TV shows and series. If you would like to watch episodes of Heroes, Knight Rider or Ugly Betty, and living outside the US, you'll get a message that you are not allowed to watch and the video player doesn't show a thing. When an episode is broadcasted in the US, it takes months before it finally arrives in Europe. If you cannot wait that long, this might be the solution.
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I'm currently busy with building a website for a local culture event. In the past I've made other websites for this customer, and they are all running on Joomla. Because the customer now knows how to work with this software I decided to use it for this website as well. I'm using jQuery and Thickbox to show the pages within the website on a dynamic way, but there happened to be a problem with this.
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