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03
May

Restore iPhone without upgrading OS

By alex|iPhone|3 Comments

If you need to restore your iPhone you’ll notice iTunes tells you that upon restoring it, the latest version will be installed. This will be just fine for regular iPhones of course, but for the people who have a Jailbroken iPhone, it’s not ok (At least until the newest version is ready for jailbreak) Well [...]

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03
May

Play a sound via JavaScript

By alex|Javascript, Programming|5 Comments

Working in a project recently I found myself in the need of playing a sort of “alert” sound with JavaScript. It turns out there are not so many good options out there. The first thing that came to my mind was to use an embed and the Play and Stop JavaScript controls. Well that only [...]

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28
Apr

C++ Internal Speaker Piano

By alex|C++, Programming|1 Comment

If you code in C++ you have probably used the internal speaker for some quick debug of your programs, in Windows, we can use the winapi header (windows.h) to access the built in function Beep(): Beep(frequency,duration); Where frequency is in Hertz and duration in milliseconds. So here is a quick something I did on C++ [...]

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21
Apr

Understanding C++ time complexity

By alex|C++, Programming|Be the first to comment!

What functions are faster? Which ones are the most efficient? Understanding this will help you optimise your code and impove it’s performance. Each C++ function has a run time, and knowing that will allow you to combine the best methods always. Here you have the different possible run times, explained and with an example of [...]

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17
Apr

Display timezone-specific dates in PHP

By alex|PHP, Programming|1 Comment

It’s common to have a website designed for one country (For example Spain or the UK) and have it in a server elsewhere (In the US for example). You will notice that sometimes when displaying a date this way, it shows the local time at the server! Instead of manually correcting this time difference there [...]

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I am Alex, a software and communications engeneering student. I currently live in the north of Spain.

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