Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/24
A while ago, I wrote about Some notes on multi-touch and Windows.
Today, Dell introduced the S2340T 23″ monitor with multi touch support, aimed at Windows 8. It surpasses the minimim requirement of 5 fingers:
It also features a multi-position, articulating stand, a 10-point touch and Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution.
This comes much closer to Microsoft Surface Table. Hopefully that SDK will fully support this monitor.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/24
Today, my MacBook Air again kept keeping the fan speed at high, even though nothing was using CPU or other power.
So I again resolved it by following: Resetting the SMC solved my MacBook Air Fan Noise With Lion problem « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
The not so cool thing is that this ONLY works if your Mac is connected to a Power Source.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/24
I need to put some time into researching how TFS source control bindings really work, as it is not only based on these extensions:
Information is also stored in the .sln solution files. These postings should get me going:
–jeroen via: Google search for TFS+vspscc+vssscc
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/23
Reminder to self:
Source Sans Pro v 1.038 is released. Now with small capitals (and more)! GitHub: https://github.com/adobe/source-sans-pro/downloads … SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/ …
With Source Sans Pro goes the – also free – Source Code Pro.
All fonts come in OTF and TTF format. Since there are quite a few differences between OTF and TTF, I’d use OTF over TTF whenever possible.
I also found a great interview with Paul D Hunt, the main designer of these fonts, and his Pilcrow Pabulum blog.
–jeroen
via Twitter / AdobeType: Source Sans Pro v 1.038 is ….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/23
About 4 months ago, I missed the OCZ Octane SSD Review – Internal Hard Drives – CNET Reviews.
Too bad that at roughly USD 2400 (the lowest price vendor at CNET lying), it is about three times as expensive as the Google Shop search for Hard Drives Intel Solid State 600 GB that I already have.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/23
Interesting SharePoint CAML XML trouble shooting tool:
this script is NOT meant to help you *build* your queries. There are other tools for that. This is purely a testing tool to help you during those “doh” moments.
-jeroen
via: Simple CAML Query Tester using jQuery & SPServices –.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/22
LPG is Liquefied Petroleum Gas. CNG is Compressed Natural Gas. Both are good fuels for cars. I favour LPG, for two reasons. First, it often can be obtained as a rest-product of cracking crude oil, second it has a much higher energy density than CNG.
For each country, you should
Note: In Switzerland, there are relatively few LPG stations, but many CNG stations.
Download section for getting LPG and CNG stations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria: LPG & CNG Tankstellen (download).
For TomTom devices, just download the LPG or CNG files for POI and Icon:
Start your downloads at LPG Autogas in Italy – Petrol GPS POI data directory for TomTom, Garmin, Navman, SmartPhones and other GPS devices. – GPS POI Data.
Then press the Download POI File button to download the OV2 and BMP file.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/22
It was a lot of pain, and somehow my Android 4 device now doesn’t sync contacts any more.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/19
Krishnan Sriram has a very nice list of New hotkeys for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
His lists starts with the shortcuts that stayed the same; these are the ones that are new:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/18
It seems quite a few people cannot access their GMail, but are able to access Plus, Contacts, Calendar, etc.
Only when accessing GMail, they get this:
Temporary Error (500)
We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.If the issue persists, please visit the Gmail Help Center »Try Again Sign Out
It happened to me about 90 minutes ago.
After doing the obvious (making sure I have a fresh browser without plugins, logged off the Google account, cleared cookies, restarted the browser, have Google send me a new 2 factor login code to my phone), I followed the GMail Help Center link, then filed a ticket at the please let us know link.
Hopefully this gets resolved soon…
–jeroen
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