Archive for October, 2007

HTML rendering issue with Windows Live Hotmail in Firefox

For the ones who have to design HTML emails for clients, you may have been facing this issue.  When you try to cascade some images, you might find gaps at the bottom of the images – only on Windows Live Hotmail opened in Firefox – they just won’t stick together.

Our company has to process a lot of HTML email send-outs every week, and this has been causing us a lot of trouble.

Finally we found what has gone wrong.

Windows Live Hotmail renders HTML in standard mode.  Any inline element (eg. img) in a table cell will be aligned to the text baseline.  This allows space for any descenders that extend below the baseline for some letters.

To fix this is really simple: put style=”display:block;” on the img tags.

When will MS stop giving us problems?

Portable DVD Player

I recently come across this website – it is a good place to buy digital goods. And they have a portable DVD Player that particularly interest me.

This portable 10 inch DVD player includes a rechargeable battery pack enabling 4 hours continuous play time. It can also be plugged directly into the cigarette lighter for in car use. This portable DVD player can play most DVDs and CDs, and supports a lot of file formats including , MP3, MP4, VCD, DivX and Jpeg files.

You can view pictures, movies and listen to CDs all with one unit!

The display & audio is of course important. The LCD display has superb video quality. It also has built-in surround sound stereo speakers – plus Dolby digital decoding.

Another feature – anti shock suspension.

Have a look here: portable DVD player

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Has backup been a hassle to you?

Yes, always.  If I back it up on a DVD, I am likely to lose it.  I run a DVD duplication service and you can imagine how many optical disks I have at home.

If I back it up on the hard disk – well there is never enough space anyway.

With the help of internet, now I have a cheap solution. Tilana provides:

Why not give it a try?  Start up at $2/GB (paid once) + $19.95/mo.
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Panasonic HDC-DX1 DVD Camcorder

I just come across this Camcorder the other day – Panasonic HDC-DX1 DVD Camcorder.

If you have a bit of experience in this type of electronic goods, then you would know how good this one is.  Just a quick glance:

  • Recording format: DVD
  • CCD Quatity: 3
  • LCD Display
  • Optical Image Stabilizer (hand-shaking problem? Not anymore!)
  • 5.1 Surround Sound audio format
  • MPEG supported
  • Internal mic
  • 3.62 x 6.42 x 3.58 in
  • 1.5 lb

It records high-definition video images with clear, high quality sound.  It records directly onto DVD discs.  Both video & audio would be recorded directly onto the disk.

Buy it from here http://www.shopping.com/xPO-Panasonic-HDC-DX1

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