Is there anyone that has experience with the Your Online Choices | IAB site?
They seem to be able to turn off cookie tracking for selected advertisers.
I’m anxious to hear if this scam or not.
–jeroen
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Interesting: site “Your Online Choices | IAB” seems to help in disabling tracking cookies for advertisers
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/16
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I totally missed the OCZ Octane 1TB 2.5 inch SSD Review, too bad it is soo expensive
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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Studentenbestand nu fors gegroeid; ook in de toekomst?
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/06
Naar aanleiding van het nieuwsartikel Studentenbestand groeit fors was mijn vraag: en hoe is dat in de toekomst? Hangt dat niet heel sterk af van de geboortegolven en dalen van de afgelopen decennia?
Een antwoord op die vraag blijkt met een korte online research vrij lastig te staven.
Aan de ene kant is er een mooie grafiek van de geboorte golven en dalen van de afgelopen decennia in het stuk Demografie van de Vergrijzing uit 2011 van het CBS die zou hinten op een vrij grillig verloop. Aan de andere kant Bevolking: Wat zijn de belangrijkste verwachtingen voor de toekomst? op de site van het Nationaal Kompas die een veel gelijkmatiger ontwikkeling van deze leeftijdsgroep aangeeft.
Kennelijk zijn er dus meer krachten in het speelveld. Uiteraard het stijgende opleidingsniveau. Maar kennelijk moet er meer zijn.
Ik ben benieuwd of er iemand betere bronnen heeft kunnen vinden om hier wel een antwoord op te geven.
–jeroen
via: Studentenbestand groeit fors | nu.nl/binnenland | Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl.
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What a laugh: Apple restricted all 3rd party web browsers on the App Store as 17+
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/05
Chrome, Opera, etc are all rated as 17+ for “mature content” ans such by Apple.
So they think nobody with Safari will see any mature content?
What a laugh!
–jeroen
via: Is Apple Restricting Google Chrome For iOS Out Of Spite? | WebProNews.
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HDD market seems recovered, and WD introduced 4 TB 3.5 HDDs: when are 2.5 inch 12.5 mm 1.5+ TB drives coming?
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/30
Last week this was in HDD news:
- Hard Drive Shipments Rebound to Record Level in 2012
- The introduction of WD RE SATA 4 TB drives and of WD RE SAS 4 TB drives.
I asked it before 6 months ago, and wonder: how long will it take for 12.5 mm 2.5 inch SATA HDDs to arrive on the market that have 1.5 TB or more capacity?
Yes, I know about the WD20NPVT, but the WD20NPVT is 2.5 inch and 15 mm high.
–jeroen
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It looks like everything signed by an Adobe Code Signing Certificate can be malware
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/29
If I read Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate my conclusion is that anything signed by the Adobe Code Signing Certificate since 2012-07-10 potentially can be malware.
As a precaution, I will manually revoke the certificate on all my systems (that’ll take a while!). If anyone knows how to automate that process, please post a comment showing how to.
Hitching on a trusted certificate of a big software company comes close to the ultimate hack: trojaning signed malware in the distribution of an OS vendor.
–jeroen
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How the London Underground solved the iOS 6 maps problems…
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24
Posted in Geeky, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, LifeHacker, Opinions, Power User | Tagged: Apple, google, iOS6, Maps, technology | 1 Comment »
Frank Borland is back, but what does that mean?
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/23
Frank Borland is back. You can meet him at Micro Focus now – they acquired Borland a while ago – where he relates to things from the past:
Frank Borland first appeared in advertisements and on the cover of the SideKick manual in 1984. Later on, Frank appeared in the first version of the Turbo Tutor manual.
He is talking about powerful and affordable, has Facebook as well as presence on LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+.
But I when I look at the MicroFocus product portfolio, I don’t see any that are both affordable and powerful.
Todays software days are different than 30 years ago, but I do agree with a couple of the points he made:
- Keep it open
- Don’t make it big, make it better
- Focus on the user experience
- Listen to the community
I don’t think you necessarily need to meet these two though:
- Meet every platform need
- Make it affordable
As those two tend to contradict each other.
What do you think?
–jeroen
via: » Frank’s Story Meet Frank Borland.
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:-) and :-( turned 30, thanks Scott Fahlman!
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/19
Today they :-) and :-( turned 30. Happy birthday!
The first use was attributed to Scott Fahlman.
Over the last few years, I switched to reverse smileys as too much software tries to graphicalize the regular ones.
–jeroen
via: Scott Fahlman – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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No more Android phone for me…
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/05
After all my address-contacts trouble I was hoping my phone would behave for at least a while.
Not so, like in the past it often:
- pops up a black screen while using the phone book requiring a power button reboot
- looses Bluetooth in the middle of a call, requiring a hard reboot (remote battery, insert battery, start over)
- looses GSM/UMTS connection in the middle of a call, basically terminating the call
- looses internet data connection, requiring a hard reboot
- looses GPS connection, not sure about a work around
- turns off the vibrate, but doesn’t turn on the ring tone (so I miss lots of phone calls)
- turns of Bluetooth and/or WiFi after a reboot
- finds out even the basic apps like mail, phone or calendar hang and need to be “reported”, but I never get follow-ups on that
- refuses to sync important data because “it will retry later”
- cannot find contacts in the database, but after manually re-adding them, you suddenly have two
- the mail app keeping restarting while fetching mails
What kept me using it was the usefulness of many apps.
But now I won’t any more: the last 4 days, the gMail app managed to use almost 1 gigabyte of data (my monthly plan) for no reason at all.
That was the limit.
Bye bye Android.
Now I just need to decide:
- iPhone 5
- Windows Phone 8
Given the update track-record of Apple, this is a no brainer.
–jeroen
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