okay, i really got set up with all that repeating news spam about the earthquake nuclear power plant fear. but i admit i just liked watching this weirdie.
it remembered me for those old movies like “when the wind blows” but got a bit more of the manga flair 
“fear not, the real threatening poo is too heavy to fly”
if you want the standard mailform content element in TYPO3 to send emails not from the ugly www-data@server.com sender but the writer´s email adress and name you just need to use explicitly labelled fields as follows:
This will do the trick. But there´s even more. If you need to provide a reply-to attribute you can do this by using these fields (which may be hidden):
Well, nowadays i´d recommend sophisticated mail form extensions like powermail but if you happen to edit a project that might help 
for some reason the very good extension contagged does not provide the dropdown to select what type of term the current item is. so all my entries in the sysfolder “terms” have type 0.
the little tweak in the userTS changes all newly created terms to be a tooltip:
TCAdefaults.tx_contagged_terms.term_type = tooltip
a small UPDATE in mysql made the already existing terms to tooltips as well. a post before i saved how to have only contagged items in this sysfolder.
to avoid editor´s overkill when just creating a little tooltip i also remove some fields from the very flexible contagged terms item in PageTS:
TCEFORM.tx_contagged_terms {
image.disabled = 1
imagecaption.disabled = 1
imagetitle.disabled = 1
imagealt.disabled = 1
exclude.disabled = 1
term_type.disabled = 1
term_replace.disabled = 1
desc_short.disabled = 1
starttime.disabled = 1
endtime.disabled = 1
fe_group.disabled = 1
sys_language_uid.disabled = 1
}
i also do hide fe_group access dropdown and the system´s language selector thus making the backend experience more simple.
just a small hint to restrict the creation of new elements inside a page (eg. a sysfolder) so that this sysfolder will only hold tt_news entries or sys_templates or whatever. you put that code into the pageTS of the sysfolder/page:
mod.web_list.allowedNewTables := addToList(sys_template)
if you´d like to only contain tt_news entries and tt_news categories you´d put addToList(tt_news,tt_news_cat) into the TS and then these are the only elements to create new inside that folder. if you want the sysfolder to hold only entries for the nifty contagged extension, you use addToList(tx_contagged_terms). here´s more on contagged as tool tip manager.
today i got my numark mixmeister control surface and i not even installed the included software since i mix music with my traktor pro. the mm control provides all the encoders i need to completely remove the keyboard and mouse from my mixing hours. input mapping worked okay due to the cool controller editor from ni, but making the controller show stuff like track cueing or fx status… that worked not so well.
as i didnt find them over the net: these are the (channel 1) notes to trigger the leds of the mm control
C#6 Preview C6 Jog Wheel B5 Fader 4 A#5 Fader 3 A5 Fader 2 G#5 Fader 1 G5 Mix top F#5 Stop top F5 Play top E5 Mix bottom D#5 Play bottom D5 Stop bottom C#5 T6 C5 T5 B4 T4 A#4 T3 A4 T2 G#4 T1 G4 S4 orange F#4 S4 green F4 S3 orange E4 S3 green D#4 S2 orange D4 S2 green C#4 S1 orange C4 S1 green
weird thing is, that you need to substract one octave from every note inside traktor´s controller editor. so, if you read D4 make it D3 and you´re fine.
propably you´ve heard about the modernizr javascript which tests the requesting browser for css3 and html5 capabilities and then sets classes to the root <html> element which your apes css coders use for selector queries. no more conditional hacking. that sounded so good that i stuck it and found this little post about server-side modernizr.
another handy javascript piece is yepnope. best is: both scripts join forces and reduce http requests and, thus save the world!
all in all this is great news for systems like TYPO3 that already provide conditions for environment variables like the client´s browser family, the os and so on. wouldn´t it be a nifty thing if the system chose the template to provide depending on the client´s capabilities to handle them?
fortunately, i find myself living in a country that appears to accept freedom of speech, freedom of data. while i´m quite aware that this ideology is not to be supported in future concepts to keep masses controlled i find every citizen should try to gain knowledge in bypassing common web censoring methods. how do you think about that? i find this very interesting and simultaneously hope that the information in the web remains free.
if you happen to sit behind an ip barrier that i.e. stops wikileaks you might bypass it in ways (free of charge) like these
simple thing to do and it does not cost anything. of course you could set up tor to communicate privately (hence making ip resolving useless).
another approach would be to ask a service like web2mail to compress the website you want to see and let them send it to your email box. then you see the requested page after unpacking the file you received. clicking a link would result in asking web2mail for the target and another email.
All these ways were told during a talk at this year´s sigint that you can watch at media.ccc.de