I test drove yesterday the new GTI MK V. It is an awesome machine, a piece of art! But… This is another blog entry. Well, since I showed an extreme enthusiasm on the subject (e.g the new GTI) and the “fast” they handed me a DVD on the subject. It contains a very nice video of sketches about the “creation of the fast”

But unfortunately the video was for the wrong region! I think they somewhat mixed it with Europe… So I needed to find a region free DVD player. I happened to have one in fact Philips DVP642! All you have to do is this:

Turn on the player
Open the DVD tray by pressing eject or holding the stop button for 2 seconds
Press 7 8 9
Press OK
Press 0

You should see a 0 at the bottom of your screen. Voilà! You have a region free DVD player!

(Nice trick to hold your Stop key for 2 secs for ejecting right? That's what I thought so too!)

My blog is a collection of scripts that I have been writing for the last few years. The weakest part of it was the administration page. Since it was only me who were to see the admin page (hopefully hehe) it looked like crap.

I was also bored of writing lots of html tags to give a link to a site or to create a stupid image link, etc.. So I decided to use some WYSIWYG textareas to create the content.

I made some research on which rich textareas available and ended up with TinyMCE. This editor transforms all the textareas in your webpages to a WYSIWYG editor. So it is very easy to integrate in your current textareas. Also there is no serverside action, so it is pretty “secure”.

TinyMCE is also Open Source under LGPL. It is developed by Moxiecode Systems AB. It is platform independent and it supports Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera and experimentally Safari. (No Konqueror ) It supports themes and it is very easy to add, remove buttons, customize and theme the TinyMCE.

Integrating TinyMCE to your current environment is really really easy All you have to do is to add some Javascripts (literally two lines) and it automagically converts all your textareas to a WYSIWYG editor Here is more on this.

Well, this will be my first blog entry using TinyMCE, so I'm crossing my fingers and submitting the story

Edit: It worked! YAY!

Edit2: For those who wonder how my admin page looks like, here is a screenshot. (It looks much less crappy now!