Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/07
Google Chrome integrated a PDF viewer that is far less functional than Adobe Reader.
In fact: if you had Adobe Reader as PDF viewer, Google Chrome will just use their own.
One of the things I use a lot is the multi-page view (2 page next to each other; fits nicely on a 1920×1200 screen).
It is actually pretty easy to switch back: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/07
When searching on MSDN for SQL Server syntax related things, you often get results matching other languages or frameworks.
For instance, searching for INSERT site:msdn.microsoft.com gets other results having to do with the .NET Framework. Those usually are not relevant to SQL Server.
Google search can be tweaked to limit your search results: there is a nice Google search help page on this.
The above search phrase already includes a the site: prefix to limit the results to the msdn.microsoft.com domain.
There are a few tricks to limit the search phrase even further:
Luckily the MSDN site has done a lot of SEO, so even if you don’t add these two to your search phrase, SQL Server relevant results end up pretty high in the result list.
They strive to get the SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online topics as high in the ranking as possible.
If you want to search for specific versions of SQL Server, then it is easiest to use this Microsoft SQL Server Library page to begin your search.
Conclusion:
Depending on what kind of search results you are interested in, you might want to extend your search phrase a bit.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/03
Great Chrome extension: Session Buddy.
Not only great for saving and restoring sessions, but also for getting the URLs and Titles of your tabs (or single window with tabs).
Easy for collecting relevant information and saving it for inclusion in documentation (for instance: your blog ).
via: Session Buddy – Google Chrome extension gallery.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/07/15
Thanks to Kilian Croese, I updated the Google Calendar – printing multiple months or weeks to PDF posting with this info:
The original post is now both far easier to use, and much more complete.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/28
Recently, I had to print multiple months or weeks from within Google Calendar.
The default UI does not allow that, but it is in fact pretty easy to do.
These are the steps to get PDF versions of a whole year.
Edit 20100714: thanks to Kilian Croese, I could explain a few more parameters, and cut out the steps for Fiddler, so it now works with most browsers on most platforms.
All text that is not relevant any more is marked deleted, so you can still read it if you want to use Fiddler.
It works from Google Chrome and Internet Explorer on Windows (FireFox works if you install FiddlerHook) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/26
Pēteris wrote about Adding wordpress.com blog as connected site in Google Buzz.
Thanks – that saved me a lot of time!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/06/21
One of the things I use most when writing blog entries is in WordPress the “Alt-Shift-A” keyboard shortcut (the “Insert/edit link” button in the toolbar).
This used to work fine in Google Chrome (my favourite browser), but now it fails, well sort of.
This is what happens: when you perform the Edit/Insert action, you see only a blank popup window, and a wait cursor for about 30 seconds, then you see the final Insert/Edit link popup window.
I’m not sure it is because of the new stable build of Chrome, changes in the WordPress.com engine or the Vodafone UMTS network (I’ll explain below why).
It does work fine in these current browser versions:
I have put FireFox last, as the WordPress.com engine does not always works nice (kinds of display issues).
So back to IE for editing WordPress posts for at least a while…
Finding the cause
The reason I’m not sure that I’m not sure what caused this issue is that both WordPress.com and Google Chrome recently got updates:
Since I could not find similar stories on the internet about my problem, I’ve played around a bit with Fiddler 2, and found that the difference between the Insert/Edit link feature in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer is that Google Chrome tries to load this link
That obviously fails, but I have not found out why it is loaded in Google Chrome and not in Internet Explorer yet.
It might have to do that I recently used the Vodafone UMTS network, and Vodafone runs a transparant proxy messing up with the HTML.
The odd thing is that it fails now, I tried both an ADSL (xs4all ADSL) and a Cable (UPC Fiber Power) connection.
To be continued…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/03/05
If you use Google Bookmarks or Google Toolbar, then bookmarks satisfying your search result will appear starred in Google Search.
Cool!
If only Google Chrome Bookmarks could be synced with Google Bookmarks (no, they cannot)….
Ref: Official Google Blog: Stars make search more personal.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/28
When you edit your gmail settings, recently you often get this message if you move the focus away from the settings pane:
Your changes have not been saved.
Discard changes?
The odd thing is that the settings are indeed saved just before you move the focus away.
So I always wondered if the message can be really ignored, and this thread confirms the message indeed is harmless.
I do still wonder why I get this message mostly in FireFox and Internet Explorer, but almost never in Chrome :-)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2009/12/08
in GMail, TIFF preview suport has started working again!
Which means that I know can read incoming FAX messages in the preview window in stead of saving and viewing them in an external tool.
It probably means that the bug here is fixed:
–jeroen
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