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Today was looking for a plugin to make huge drop-downs searchable. I have first checked the jQuery Autocomplete plugin, but that works better with plain text inputs, then browsed through tens of other similar plugins and even tried couple of them. Finally, my choice went to jQuery Searchable Drop Down Plugin.

Main reason of choice – ease of setup. Just include the script in the head and then use something like this in your code:

$(function() { $('#myDropDownSelectElementId').searchable(); });

Finish story, works just like it supposed to.

While my brother is playing around with GTalk video/audio calls I came to a point, where I believe I need to buy an adroid-powered phone :)

Not sure if the functionality I want is already there, but I believe it is on a way. I am talking about transparent selection of transportation media for a phone call to a friend. Imagine an android phone with WiFi and GTalk integrated (not even talking about GMail and Contants stuff). So with such thing when you want to make a call to your friend, the phone will check if you are on Internet and your friend is signed in to GTalk and try calling for free through this channel, otherwise just make a normal dial through GSM. Manual control should also be present for sure (so a user can decide himself how to call).

On the other hand, if your friend has a similar mobile, he can receive GTalk voice/video calls directly on it as well. So phone-to-phone call is free through Internat exactly as it would be through GSM.

Ofcourse there are plenty of things to consider before the idea could become completely usable, but as an idea, I think it is really cool.

This is just great: http://mytechnologyworld9.blogspot.com/2010/08/complicated-mechanisms-explained-in.html

I wish there were more of this type…

Few years ago I was setting up SMTP+IMAP with MySQL virtual users and somehow I didn’t post about the installation here. These days I have similar thing to do (bit simplier, but still) and since I retrieved my old configuration description, I decided to post it here for future reference.

The whole setup is based on Exim (for SMTP), Dovecot (for IMAP, but might also be used for POP3) and MySQL (for configuration storage).

So here are the bits of changes/configs relevant to setup:

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I have a 4MBit ADSL line from PrimeTel at home. I’ve been noticing that sometimes the speed goes closer to 5MBit, but today morning, when I was downloading some music, I saw a record speed of almost 10MBit! What I can say? PrimeTel is just the best.

Moreover, when I told my brother about this – he pointed out for some testing turbo stuff promo from PrimeTel, which I somehow skipped. Just signed in for it – wonder if the speed will increase even more ;)

(Not that I am greedy or need that much speed – more of the curiosity)