Exams are over! Time to start checking of the to-do list that was banging around my head during every single hour I studied.
On the top of the list is doing some updates to the blog. I’ve added a new “About Me” page telling a story about who I am. You might also notice you can no longer translate this blog to English immediately. This because from now on my post will be in English. Most of them are becoming more and more technical and this way people might find there way more easily toward my blog. I’m sure my foreign friends from Finland will not mind this change either.
Images are now displayed in page with the new Lighbox implementation and adding an avatar to your comments is more easy thanks to the MIXonline plugin. Social network integration is better, and I’m trying to sound more professional so I’ve added a link to my LinkedIn profile.
Small changes to make the blog a more modern place. Keep an eye out, because there is a Windows Live Wave 4 post coming up. Not a major review since www.liveside.net has had some great reviews per application but a personal vision about the new Windows Live Essentials.
I guess some of you are using Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. You are probably also using the ‘Aero Snap’ feature more then once a day. If your screen resolution is high enough you might even put 2 web pages side by side, or put one page on a side to read while working on something at the other side of your screen.
I have however found a rendering bug and am wondering if you experience the same thing. If you snap a window to the side and a horizontal scrollbar appears, the rendering of the ‘background’ attribute stops if you scroll to the right. Below are to examples to illustrate what i mean.
The above Image kind of says it all. I was sick and tired of always looking up what time stuff was going on my end of the planet. It’s a typical copy-paste-search syndrome and then I realised an IE8 accelerator is ideal for this! So with a few hours of spare time on my hands (hard to find during exams) I created the above accelerator. Click ‘make default’ during install to make it pop up in the main Accelerator menu (otherwise it will be under ‘all accelerators’).
Just select the time (including the zone abbreviation) and the accelerator will calculate the local time according to your settings. Automatically recognised time zones are PT / PST , ET / EST , C/CT/CDT for now, but I will add more in the future.
To adjust settings: simply click on the “Local Time?” items in the accelerator menu instead of hovering over it to see the preview. You only need to set this ones.
If a time zone is not given you can insert the given time zone on the page you get to when clicking “Local Time?” in the accelerator menu. (it is technically not possible to do this in the preview unfortunately).
Don’t you just hate it when you get SPAM e-mail directly from friends inviting you to read there ‘special message’ they left for you on some website.
And you know something like that would never happen to you. But then one day a friend tells you they have been received some spam e-mail from you and you don’t know how that could have come. Well let me give you some guidelines that will help you not to be a victim.
Most spam scams try to find out you password and then automatically login to your email account and start sending e-mail in your name to your contacts! It hurts your name and your friends inbox, because most of the time spam is not recognised if it is a personal one to one message of a friend by a spambot. Some bots are friendly and only send one message to each of you friends. Some send one every day, some every hour. A first rule should always be:
If you think your account has been hacked CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD. Once botnets don’t have your password they can’t log in and misuse your account to send from anymore. Although they might already saved your friends email addresses and can still send them stuff. Here are the pages to change your password:
So how do you know you can give somebody your password? First of all: Nobody should ever need your password. It’s the same thing with pin codes of bankcards. The bank will never ask you for your pin to do stuff with your account (not on the phone or in writing), even card stop would ask your pin to block your card. They don’t need it. And just like that Microsoft of Gmail does not ever really need your password (only to log in). So the second rule would be:
Don’t type your password in any box or field that is not your provider’s even if you want to give them access to your contact list! There is always a legal safe way to give access to your contact list or calendar without giving to give a strange website your password. A good example is how facebook gives you the option to invite your Windows Live friends onto your facebook network.
Once you click ‘Find Friends’ facebook will not ask you for your password. You will be redirected to a Windows Live website !
Some stuff to notice :
The url will be https://login.live.com and will be green because it is a verified website:
The login page will look like a Windows Live Login page (with some branding of the site you want to give access) Every mayor online ID provider (facebook , windows live , gmail , …) has they safe way of working and exchanging data. You should never have to enter your Windows Live password on a site that is not owned by Microsoft, and if they ask you to it’s a bad designed website and will probably spam all your friends.
So to make sure your account was not hacked yet please visit the following website: http://www.callemin.be/hacked/ If it has been hacked please change your password immediately !
For the last few months a new phenomenon has been rising on Facebook. It asks you to join some page or like a page to see what is on there. I’m not going to get started on how sad that concept really is. But I do ask you to stop liking stuff you don’t like. It is possible to don’t like stuff you once liked, although it is not that obvious. It’s not where it is supposed to be:
So if you liked something to see a picture and then got asked to fill in some questions, redirected to another site. Please follow one of the next steps to stop spamming your friends.
Here’s a way to unlike stuff:
1) Visit the page you like again 2) Go to the Wall or “Prikbord” in Dutch 3) Click “Don’t like” or “Vind ik niet meer leuk” in the bottom left corner of that page.
Removing the message on your profile does not make you unlike stuff and will still make it pop up in your newsfeed. So if you really feel the need to like something, like this blog post ! (click below on blog)
Dit weekend heb ik op mijn computers Office 2007 vervangen met de nieuwe Office 2010 die deze week door Microsoft Release to Manufacture werd verklaard.
De installatie verliep vlugger dan de installatie van office 2007 en gaf me bij de eerste opstart van Word de volgende melding:
In Office 2007 kon je reeds opslaan als Open Office indeling om zo maximali compatibiliteit te geven met gebruikers van OpenOffice maar nu vraagt Microsoft Office dus reeds of je bestanden standaard als hun OpenDocument indeling wil opslaan. Een vooruitgang!
Weet ook dat samen met Office 2010 er een webversie van Word, Excel, Powerpoint en Onenote gratis beschikbaar gesteld word! (ook voor mensen die het Office pakket niet hebben) Op http://skydrive.live.com onderdeel van Windows Live kan je nu reeds bestand aanmaken en uploaden om zo de webversie van de Office applicatie te testen. Hieronder een voorbeeld van Excel:
The videos below are sessions from DevDays 2010 in The Netherlands. They give a very good explanation of what is new in .NET Framework 4.0 and how it helps programming evolve. Both video’s are very technical but the latter one is move fun (partly making fun of the person in the first video). Things that are spoken about include dynamic keyword , co- and contra variance ,COM interop , MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) , ASP.NET MCV vs WinForms …
At the end of the first video the presenter tries to give you insight in what Microsoft thinks the future is heading to and how compilers will evolve. Both really really worth your time if you are into programming !
@C_Kurt
