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Android 101: How to add a second gmail account to your phone | Android Central.
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Android 101: How to add a second gmail account to your phone | Android Central
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/26
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Coincidence? MacBook Air arrived, Windows 8 preview and VMware Fusion 4 got released
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/15
My MacBook Air has arrived, a few days before VMware Fusion 4 got out and a very early preview of Windows 8 got released.
Time to move my iOS dev env from my Mac Mini Server dev env over to this fully loaded 13.3 inch MacBook Air model (A1369 with 1.8GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 / 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM / 256GB Flash Storage).
A few initial observations on the MacBook Air:
- I’m the kind of guy that has a plan B in case of disaster recovery. Like many PCs, this MacBook Air does not include any recovery media. Recovering OS X Lion is done through a recovery partition (costing precious SSD space), or if that fails: over the internet.
Of course you can create your own recovery media using the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, which is a 1 megabyte dmg download. - Another funny thing is that the WiFi antenna of the MacBook Air is far less strong than my ThinkPad W701: while both can connect to the FreeDowntownWifi network, the MacBook Air has trouble transferring data. Apparantly the aluminum unibody design has some drawbacks on antenna performance.
Not having a physical Ethernet connection on the MacBook Air doesn’t help either :)
Oh well, will install it at the Embarcadero office later this week.
A few things on VMware Fusion 4:
- It runs the Windows 8 preview
- It runs the FireMonkey OS X apps (a VM hackingtosh on a PC won’t do as the virtualized VMware video adapter is not up to par for FireMonkey OpenGL support)
Time to have a lot of fun :)
–jeroen
Via: VMware: VMware Support Insider: Fusion 4 is here!.
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords=A1369
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Arrived in San Jose, CA, USA for the DelphiLive tutorial and conference (DelphiLive people get internet free!)
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/11
I had a pretty OK direct KLM flight from AMS to SFO.
Apart from some people behind me that seemed to have sufficient motoric coordination issues that they had to grab my chair each time they got up, or put their traytable up. Some – even Dutch! – seem to think that using force is the only way to get things done. So thank you people in seats 28H, J and K for ruining my sleep.
The advantage of being in seat 27H in a Boeing 747-400 is that you get food really fast, and have direct access to drinks from the galley :)
Frank Stepan – one of the DelphiLive organizers – picked me up at the airport, and got me to the conference hotel in Downtown San Jose.
Check in went smooth.
Connecting to the Internet too: it is a breeze, compared to the Swisscom experience at the NH Hotel in Köln last week.
Not as fast as the KOMED internet on saturday, but you have two choices:
FreeDowntownWifi, which is – err – free. And has reasonable speed.
iBAHN internet, which is – err – free for DelphiLive attendees ans speakers. And also has reasonable speed.
So I upgraded my iPad firmware, downloaded the new TomTom USA Map, and synced my gadgets to the cloud.
Time to do some final preparations on my tutorial and sessions, and then get something to eat.
–jeroen
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Companies that ship to the USA, but require USA credit-card or PayPal
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/11
Sometimes it is convenient to order something to be delivered in the USA, but from a non-USA credit-card. For instance when visting the USA or when sending a gift to a friend.
Many companies don’t allow that.
These companies are of no use when you live outside the USA, but want to have something delivered within the USA:
- IBM.com
- Overstock.com
- CostCentral.com
Those companies do work though:
This list will be updated over time…
–jeroen
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#Huawei “Mobile Partner” Software #fail it doesn’t work in Windows 7 x64 and breaks the ThinkPad Fn keys
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/10
In order to get non-roaming UMTS internet in Germany, I borrowed a Huawei USB device.
Though I had bad experiences with those kinds of devices 5 years ago under XP (where the Huawei software would add a new virtual COM port for each install, finally blocking at COM32, and also blocking the recognition of any new USB device) I hoped for a better experience this time.
Not so: The new software is called “Mobile Partner”, but I’d like them to strip the name “Partner” of their software.
- the software was German only (I can read German, but I’d like English on my English system)
- after installing the software, my Fn key combinations on my ThinkPad keyboard would not not work any more
- after installing the software, removing the device, rebooting, their software would not recognize the device when I plugged it in
No more Huawei USB devices for me.
–jeroen
Via: Huawei E220 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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How to disable the annoying Windows #Skype 5.5 Home Screen auto pop-up #fail
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/09
Well, it looks like the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft is showing results: Skype 5.5 introduces an annoying “Skype Home” popup page.
Luckily Disable Skype 5.5 Home Screen auto pop-up explains how to get rid of this (it is open source).
Probably time to move on from Skype to something else…
–jeroen
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Cool site of the day: Download Online Videos Save Direct Easily – Savevid.com (not only for YouTube)
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/09
Cool site of the day :)
Download Online Videos Save Direct Easily – Savevid.com.
–jeroen
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Unbelievable: Dutch Government made Microsoft agree to keep Microsoft customers vulnerable to fake digital certificates from DigiNotar by postponing Windows Updates for Dutch users. #fail
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/06
English translation of the link title below: Dutch Government forces Microsoft to delay Windows Update.
Google Translate of the linked article.
Why? Because it will give the Dutch Government more time to install certificates of which fake copies can exist because of the DigiNotar hack back in July 2011 and the resulting issuance of fraudulent certificates.
This is a big #fail for the Dutch Government.
What the Dutch Government should have done:
Allow people and companies some slack filling in their electronic correspondence with the government (i.e. Tac Forms, filing of legal documents, etc) until the Dutch Government has installed their new (and now hopefully secure) certificates.
By postponing due dates, they can ensure safe communication, now they can’t.
(Edit: since posting the above, I learned that Agentschap NL has given their customers a week more time to supply digital documents).
What users of Microsoft software should do:
For at least a week, don’t use the (embedded) Microsoft Internet Explorer to communicate with the Dutch government, but use an alternative browser and disable the DigiNotar root certificates on your system.
Use the most recent version of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera or Apple Safari *and* disable the DigiNotar root certificates.
This post explains how to disable the DigiNotar certificates on OS X.
This post explains how to disable the DigiNotar certificates on Windows.
Keep an eye on the DigiNotar post by Joshua Long as he updates it frequently.
Note that on Windows there is s truckload of software that embeds Microsoft Internet Explorer, so you should try to block the iexplore.exe process whenever possible.
–jeroen
Via: Overheid dwingt bij Microsoft vertraagde Windows Update af | Pro | Tweakers.net Nieuws.
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#fail of #Sennheiser CX 250 and CX 150 in-ear #earphones when using while running: over time they sound less and less loud, switching to #DealExtreme
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/05
I found out the hard way that Sennheiser CX 250 and Sennheiser CX 150 in-ear earphones are not up to using while running with my 4th generation iPod Shuffle
After about 2-3 months, one or both the earbuds start to sound less and less loud.
My first one (a CX 250) started to develop this only on my right earbud. Being practically monoaural (due to chronically inflammation from age 0 to about 20, my left ear has a loss of about 55-60 dB), I could just use the other earbud. A while later, the other earbud started to degrade as well.
The nice thing about Sennheiser is that they deliver rubber eartips of difference sizes. Because my left ear has a larger ear canal (caused by treatment surgery of the inflammation), that is nice: it keeps the ‘unused’ earbud from dangling around while running.
So I bought a CX 150 just to make sure the problems with the CX 250 were an exception (the initial sound of them is much the same, : after a few months it started having the same trouble, but now on both ears.
They are cheaper too (starting from about EUR 20 in stead of about EUR 30).
No more Sennheiser for me: I spent like EUR 50 for 6 month of usage.
Right now I’m trying a bunch of earphones from Dealextreme. My first one is the SKU 33239. It costs like EUR 2 including shipping, has a great sound, but the cable is a tad long (over 1 meter) for running. My iPod Shuffle is clipped to the neckline of my running shirt, a short cable comes in very handy.
I’ll post more on this when I know how long these last.
–jeroen
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Importing Facebook friends in …
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/08/19
Somehow, Facebook is very protected about you accessing your friends’ info in an automated way.
For instance, recently Facebook tried to block a Google Chrome extension that exported the info on your friends, and also blocked a Facebook contacts CSV export tool (alredy archived at the WayBack machine).
Luckily, Yahoo! has a Facebook Connect deal with Facebook that enables Yahoo! to import the Facebook contacts.
So, if you have a Yahoo! account, you can always that as a back-door: import your Facebook! contacts into Yahoo! contacts.
Importing is easy: start at the Yahoo! Address Book Contact Import Landing page, then go from there.
The Yahoo! Mail Transfer Contacts page offers some other import sources too (but no Facebook source yet).
For instance, these are possible:
- Import your Facebook contacts into Google+ via Yahoo; note that the “view and edit” link is gone now, just use this https://plus.google.com/circles/find link instead.
- Export Facebook email addresses via Yahoo
Other tools can directly import from Facebook, for instance, Skype can, and many mobile phones can too (so you can do the “Facebook, mobile phone, Outlook, export” path too).
–jeroen
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