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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/30
Correction to the lifehacker.com post: only || works for OR condition.
Corrected quote:
By default Google ANDs all data that you put into the filter fields. To use an OR condition all you have to do is put || between two strings (you can not just use OR).
–jeroen
via Gmail search operators work in filters, too.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/30
The podcase “Tech45 #228: Een air, dat heb ik wel“ covered this a while ago: alex/what-happens-when · GitHub:
This repository is an attempt to answer the age old interview question “What happens when you type google.com into your browser’s address box and press enter?”
Except instead of the usual story, we’re going to try to answer this question in as much detail as possible. No skipping out on anything.
This is a collaborative process, so dig in and try to help out! There’s tons of details missing, just waiting for you to add them! So send us a pull request, please!
This is all licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero license.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/30
Cool bench, only EUR 90 via the German Amazon shop:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B002Y6BCFK
Thanks Gerwin Sturm for sharing!
–jeroen
via: We ordered one of those for our garden, so cool and useful :).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/29
I’m getting nuts with all these companies insisting on sending digital invoices or receipts.
The worst is that each and every company has figured a way that works well for them, but is slightly different from all the other vendors. You’d think there are not that many degrees of freedom. There are.
A lot of them aren’t even invoices, as they miss valuable information (for instance Dutch ones lacking chamber of commerce or VAT numbers) or they sent you a ton of stuff where invoice is not called invoice or receipt at all.
Others send you an order confirmation, payment confirmation, shipping estimate, shipping confirmation, rating reminder, pro-forma invoice. But no invoice.
The attachments are horrible. Some send them as PDF, some just HTML mail, like with images that need to be downloaded but are gone after a while. Others even send Word documents, CSV files, or Excel sheets. Of the paged documents, they are often formatted for Letter (hey, there is a whole world out there with A4!).
It gets really painful when you need to go on-line to retrieve the attachment. Sometimes a cookie suffices. Sometimes you need to login. The worst are when during login, they disable auto password entry in a browser.
Some of the attachments (even PDFs!) contain just a bitmap image of the invoice: no OCR, not searchable. Amazon.de is known for this.
Talking about Amazon.de: they managed to send me a German order confirmation. With dates in Spanish (as I found out through Google Translate of 26 de enero de 2015):
And many of the invoices lack key information to relate them to bank account or credit card statements: transaction numbers not matching or completely gone.
This used to be so easy in the past when we had paper invoices. Once every month or so, I sat down, ripped open all the envelopes, sorted them into categories (private, company, etc), did payments.
When the statements come in, just put the right ones with the right statements and hand over to the book keeper that does the tax filings. Simple and took an hour or so!
I spent most of today figuring out all the electronic invoices of last quarter (the paper stuff took me like 30 minutes).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/26
I remembered about skipping flight legs, so was glad to find back this post where Jan Wildeboer has shared:
“Actually, it’s about ethics in ticket booking” ;-)
Brandon Downey originally shared:
Honestly, given how poorly airlines treat their customers, an argument that “Once you buy a ticket to a destination, you agree to travel all the way there and it would be unethical to do otherwise” is pretty laughable — basically, “it is unethical to find loopholes in our broken business model.” Also, great marketing for skiplagged.com.
United, Orbitz Sue Travel Site Over ‘Hidden City’ Tickets:
United Airlines Inc. and Orbitz Worldwide LLC sued to prevent the travel website Skiplagged.com from helping consumers buy what the companies call improper “hidden city” plane tickets that undercut their sales.
–jeroen
via: Honestly, given how poorly airlines treat their customers, an argument that….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/21
While in the USA I usually go by Home Depot to get some inspiration.
This time my Eye fell on a lot of Smart Home Products compatible with the Wink Hub: people in the USA have a lot more choice in that area than in The Netherlands.
So I did some more browsing and found this: Shop Amazon – 20% or More Off Select Wink Home Automation Bundles until January 31st 2015.
Some of that is even better than the ones listed at Wink – Featured Products – The Home Depot.
Too bad this 110V stuff doesn’t work in 220V land (:
–jeroen
via: Wink | Buy and View Smart Home Products.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/13
I never use wireless keyboards because of the bad signal quality. Now there is one more reason not to use them…
By Andrian Knoth, thanks to a link by Kristian Köhntopp:
“KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard in the vicinity.”
–jeroen
via “KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/12
Brilliant: password requirements by @NicvantSchip.
“Your password must contain at least 8 letters, a capital, a plot, a protagonist with good character development, a twist & a happy ending.”
And Dilbert via Thomas Kear:
“Starting today, passwords must contain letters, numbers, sign language and squirrel noises”
–jeroen
via: Koushik Dutta – Google+.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/02
Click on the map to view a larger version. Thanks Guardian!
Fun way to display some other relations between various series of atoms:
–jeroen
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