I use three IRC clients with my ZNC bouncer: Textual on Mac, The Lounge for quick IRC access from any web browser including my phone and mIRC on my Windows PC. I am also using the clientbuffer znc module so backlog is saved for every client individually, so I get the whole backlog on each…
Continue reading →The problem Finding a good backup software for Windows is quite hard, if not next to impossible. But what makes a backup software good?
Continue reading →So I upgraded to Thunderbird 3 some time ago. It has nice new features, like the grouped folders. Anyway, there are a few things that annoyed me too; one of them being the fact that whenever someone sends a mail to me and some other people, only the first recipient was displayed, with a “more…”…
Continue reading →Have you ever tried to embed video files in PowerPoint? If you managed to do that, have you ever tried to play that presentation on other PCs or even on a mac? It’s a pain in the ass. I haven’t yet reached the point to say it’s impossible, but at least I can say it’s…
Continue reading →Trying to integrate Zimbra calendars in Lightning, I ran into a couple of problems. So far I’ve found four different ways to do it in the internet: ICS: http://zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME ICS: webcal://zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME ICS: webcal://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@zimbrahost.example.com/home/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME CalDAV: http://zimbrahost.example.com/dav/USERNAME/CALENDARNAME Now the ICS solutions don’t work properly for me, the calendar entries are loaded but Lightning is unable to write…
Continue reading →My boss is working with tons of mails every day. Part of his workflow is to use the “followup” -> “add reminder..:” function in the right-click menu of messages. When I upgraded his Outlook from 2003 to 2007, he asked why that function was gone. I did some investigation, including a phone call at Microsoft…
Continue reading →I use a little tool to manage my MP3s called “MP3 tag tools“. It’s quite powerful, it allows you to mass edit some or all ID3 tag fields, fill them from a file name scheme and vice versa (create folder structures and/or file names from the ID3 tag fields). Now when I recently cleaned up…
Continue reading →Hi folks! I have that ultraportable notebook, a HP 2510p. It features a 12.1″ LED-backlit screen, ambient light sensor, fingerprint device and so much more. After about one year of usage, I can say that I love this device and wouldn’t want to miss it anymore. However, it’s not perfect. Battery runtime is pretty acceptable,…
Continue reading →Often people ask me what is so wrong about the Internet Explorer. Apart from security issues, one of the reasons is the implementation of web standards. I recently stumbled upon the Acid3 Test which can be used to test how well web browsers follow web standards (read the wikipedia article if you want to know…
Continue reading →Have you ever had an “unknown device” in the Windows device manager and wanted to get rid of it installing the appropiate driver? You just had no idea what device was meant? This happened to me with a 32-bit PCMCIA Compact Flash adaptor for my notebook (ok, I knew what device it was, but I…
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