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Archive for June, 2006

Network Cable Unplugged

I was helping a relative getting their Airport Express working with their network. One source of confusion for them was the “Network Cable Unplugged” error message on their PC that would ocurr when the network cable was plugged in. The error actually meant something else.
BTW if your Airport Expresss doesn’t seem to hand [...]

Get Your Daycare Subsidy

If you are resident in Canada and your child is in daycare, get your free money here.
Technorati Tags: daycare, Canada

Printing PDFs on Mac

I have to print everything twice on my mac (OSX v 10.4). First, I print it, then I realize its coming out landscape with my content cropped when I intended for it to print portrait as I viewed on the screen. So I go and change the preferences and print again.
Technorati Tags: osx, [...]

NetNewsWire Review

A comment on my post on NewsFire led me to try NetNewsWire.
So far I am finding it very usable. The only gotcha was on the first time I ran it there was no prompt to synchronize with newsgator before I started importing my feeds from an OPML. That is 20 seconds I won’t [...]

NewsFire Review

I tried the trial (unregistered and free) version of NewsFire today.

Strike 1: It wouldn’t open an OPML file saved with an extension other than OPML.
Strike 2: It imported no feeds when I attempted to import the OPML file. There is an extra step required where you have to select all the feeds [...]

Work Web Site Up

Finally, I have a web site for my position as a financial advisor (officially my title is Investment Executive. You can see the details of my services at my site).
The two column layout as of the time of writing is based on floating the second column to the right of the first. It [...]

NET2Phone Sues Skype

Net2Phone sues Skype over patent infringement. Could be as exciting as the RIM case.
Technorati Tags: patents

Less than one month after my blackberry’s email database becoming corrupt, its happened again. Exactly the same symptoms. As new emails arrive, very old ones seem to show up in the display. Really weird.
They want me to reinstall the OS, which I think will result in me having to courier the device [...]