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Still here

Aprazeth — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:33:55 +0000

As you might have noticed I haven’t blogged anything lately. This mostly due to the fact that I am in the middle of moving into a new place – and my girlfriend moving in as well… So it’s a bit hectic with lots of things to do. And as an optional side-note, I am evaluating a lot of things I used to do, but which I am not doing right now.

I should be able to post a few updates somewhere this week so – no worries!

Daylight saving time – Losing an hour of sleep

Aprazeth — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:05:03 +0000

Hey everyone – as a heads-up;

This coming Sunday 28th of March at 2.00 AM (in the morning for you non AM/PM-ers ;-) ) the clock will go forward 1 hour.

Be sure to check your clocks, computers, laptops, phones, digital camera’s and all other equipment if it set the new time correctly.

More info on DST at Wikipedia: Daylight saving time – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

HTC HD2 Day 1 conclusions

Aprazeth — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:11:40 +0000

Well, today concludes the first day with the HTC HD2.

Overall, I am a happy consumer. However, just like with everything I have some pet peeves with it:

Installing Google Mobile made the device incredibly slow. Uninstalling and then rebooting the phone did not fix it. So I had to resort to the hard reset option (source: HTC HD2 Leo Hard reset – Soft reset.) Not so happy with that. I am happy with how fast I could get my stuff back (Microsoft My Phone and the Google Active Sync took care of that)
The screen is like a magnet for finger-smearing… ;-)
Although not specifically the phone that caused it; I had to setup a completely empty Windows Mobile Device Center profile (with nothing ticked) so WMDC on my PC wouldn’t keep bouncing up and down like a Jack Russel on crack every time I connected the phone.
I also noticed when manually setting up the Active-sync profile SMS syncing was showing. So far I haven’t found anything on this matter from Google, so I am not using it (anyone?)
It doesn’t use the storage-card for message/attachment storing by default.
I’ll admit that it’s not as big of an annoyance as I first thought it would be – but it’s in Dutch, which I am of course. But still!

“Drop Down”, Quake-style command prompt for Windows – Instructables – DIY, How To, tech

Aprazeth — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:56:56 +0000

I just had to sharea this one very cool thing:

“Drop Down”, Quake-style command prompt for Windows – Instructables – DIY, How To, tech.

It’s a Quake-style console for use in Windows. Now you might think why would you want that? Well it autohides as soon as you click anywhere or ALT+TAB to another program, but keeps running in the background. It also gives you the console the moment you press WIN+~ (tilde)

I personally grabbed the file from: http://www.mediafire.com/?0e3kxld19qd

Works great, and I highly recommend it to people who, such as myself, frequently use the DOS-prompt… err I mean the Quake-console ;)

5 Pet peeves in regards to mails that need to go

Aprazeth — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:06:28 +0000

I just had to post and share this one:

The liberal use of the “VERY HIGH PRIORITY!!!” flag
The 18-line sig about all the Bad Things that will happen to me if I ever reveal the contents of your privileged, confidential (and unencrypted) message
The unrequested press release (and the serial ignoring of the “Unsubscribe” I sent you for the previous seven press releases)
The graphical background, font and table tags, and remaining 14k of HTML cruft associated with every. single. message. you’ve ever sent
The including of my — plus 98 other strangers’ — personal email addresses in the “To:” line of your friendly reminder about Tyler’s birthday party

Source:
http://www.43folders.com/2005/11/07/five-email-tics-id-love-for-you-to-lose?page=3

:mrgreen: