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Yet another day in my life: wake up, cup of joe, check email, sync my mobile phone and agenda, grab some music for on the go

*Chime*

I got the message that iTunes 8 is available.
Ah, okay… update…

*connects the ipod*

*WHAM!* [blue screen of death]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!

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Some stressing hour today: my dreamweaver8 stops working while loading “Initializing extension data”-screen

While reinstall is not an option, registry edit is the last (and working!) trial-and-error from the Macromedia help-page:

1. The Dreamweaver 8.0.1 Updater resolved (more…)
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First off : Why the heck should you have/use PHP?

PHP is server side scripting. That means it is parsed on the server before your page loads in the browser. To the visitor and to the search engines PHP scripts are not noticeable. When PHP is combined with RSS feeds, links, blog entries, dynamic portfolio, it is a pretty powerful concept. With PHP you can add other people’s content to your web pages and the search engines will see it and think it is part of your website! (Think of the SEO-thingies). That PHP-parsed content when placed on your web page will essentially become a part of your web site and bring you more traffic. That is why most web developers recommend that you add the content from external sites to your website with PHP instead of Javascript.

Which comes first? Chicken or egg?

The characteristic of HTML that it will only parse / call the Javascript from within the HTML-parsing routine. (Okay, we both know it can call whatever files, but for the sake of this post, let’s pretend it’s that way, okay ). PHP, ASP, JSP, whatever, can call/use HTML tags/files, and not the other way around.

Yes, I know that you can simply “rewrite” everything into php and enclose the real php in <?php … ?>-tag.
But how should you do it if you insist that the file’s extension is still HTML and still can parse the PHP scripts inside? There are some ways:

• Option I
  • a: .htaccess for HTM/HTML, IIS
  • b: the same as Part I, only using the cPanel instead the hard way
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Microsoft used the Macworld conference on Monday to release its much-anticipated Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac software suite. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant promises the new suite will offer a unique and feature-rich Mac-like solution to Mac users for their personal, home office and business office needs. Han-Yi Shaw, lead program manager for Word in Microsoft’s Mac business unit, said the developers had four key goals in mind when developing the suite: discoverability, simplicity, professional output and compatibility. He added it was also important to Microsoft to create a product that would be Mac-like in its touch and feel.

Three different versions of Office 2008 for Mac are now available. The core suite is Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, plus Microsoft Exchange Server support and Automator tools, at $539.95 for the full edition and $319.95 for upgrades. Microsoft Office 2008 for MacHome and Student edition includes up to three licenses for $199.95. And for the professional enthusiast, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Special Media edition is $629.95, or $379.95 for the upgrade. Much like last year’s release of Microsoft’s Office 2007 for Windows, the Mac edition boasts a new user interface developers promise will be more intuitive for end users,along with an abundance of new features and capabilities. The only thing which needs to be fixed is obviously the price - I don’t know many people willing to pay so much for software…

Source: PC World

Behold: the thinnest laptop ever made (until today, at least), Apple MacBook Air

During the the Macworld Expo, Apple introduced their newest laptop: MacBook Air. According to the AppleMan himself (Jobs), MBA (macbook air) is the thinnest laptop in the world. Hey, I believe that. With 1,93 cm and 0,4 cm for the heights, and weighs no more than 1,3kg, I’d carry this around. Heck, I’m carrying at least 5 kilo on my back with my current A6 laptop; I’m afraid I’m gonna lose this one, due to it’s lightness… it’s gonna be like ‘I’m carrying no laptop’-feeling (even Vaio TZ is even heavier and bigger)

13,3 inch LED-backlit screen is a plus point, instant on, and presumably enhanced battery-life support. The multi touch-trackpad? I’m sold! Oh yeah, did I mentioned the built in camera.

1,8″ 80GB HDD is propped into the case, is the standard HDD. I’d go with the optional 64GB SSD (solid state drive, it’s like the compact flash / secure digital chips, I think)

I’m still wondering how the heck Apple can fit all the gadgets in such a thin case: 1,6GHz Core2 Duo, N-band wifi, bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (WOW!!), magsafe, microDVI, 2GB RAM, 3.5″ jack for the headphone (wow?).

Allright, no optical drive, but you can have one for less than €50, you know… the USB thingie… Or if you’re a Applenatic, there’s one superdrive, also USB, for US$99. They also this new Remote Disc feature, to use the optical drive of another computer (both Mac and PC). Pretty sweet, I’d say….

What sucks is: no replaceable battery. Heck… that was the case with the old iPod…. but nowadays you can buy the Do-It-Yourself iPod Battery Replacement kit for under the US$50 I won’t be surprised that in the near future, very near, you’d find one in your not-an-Apple-retailer: MacBook Air Battery Replacement Kit

Oh yeah, the going price for MacBook Air is starting from US$1800 (okay, Apple says it’s 1799, what’s the big fuzz about one freakin’ dollar anyways…)

*is there anyone getting horny with the MacBook Air?

Am I going to get one?
I dunno… I even don’t know where’s the Start-button of Mac OS/X

Comments are welcomed

From Technews / Betasport

The next version of the world’s most popular alternative Web browser is taking shape, with a more stable Beta 2 released yesterday. Added to the feature set are some new conveniences you may wonder how you managed to do without. Until recently, test versions for the next edition of Firefox — codenamed “Gran Paradiso” — have been interesting but not altogether stable, which isn’t surprising for builds that were clearly labeled “alpha.” But yesterday, Mozilla sprung the trap on the Beta 2 release of Firefox 3.0, and early on, BetaNews noticed the improvements the organization had long been promising now appear to be working more solidly. Unlike Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7, which shuffled the locations of features and buttons around faster than Bud Abbott playing the old shell game with Lou Costello, Firefox 3.0 looks pretty much the same as it did before. So the changes are subtle, then when you find them, they become profound.

Firefox 3 beta 2 includes some subtle usability improvements in the new Download Manager, which now displays the domain of the site from which the file originated next to each entry. Mozilla also improved its Places bookmarking and history system which is a major new feature of the Firefox 3 browser. While the new Firefox visual styles for Windows and Mac OS X haven’t landed yet, this beta is the first to include the native GTK theme for Firefox’s default icons, buttons, and menu styles in Linux. Even with a few bugs here and there the speed improvement in Firefox 3 is noticeable when compared to Firefox 2, and I for one have had no problems with it crashing. You can check Mozilla’s “what’s new” page for Firefox to read through a list of improvements and fixes in the latest beta, which is available for download here.

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Okay, everybody, almost everybody, are using Windows XP for the last 5 years, before Vista came out, and sadly, flopped*

During that 5 years, we encountered like dozens and dozens of error messages that only Microsoft know the meaning of it…

Here’s some list (follow the link) for some explanations: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/errors.htm

*Microsoft announced a few weeks back that they are offering users to downgrade from Vista to XP. Go google it

Do you have a laptop?

Two monitors?

Tired keeping switching back-and-forth between 1-desktop and 2-monitors-extend-my-desktop-to-this-monitor ritual?

Try reading these links:

• http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=101&threadID=220003&messageID=2219887
• http://robbieallen.com/2006/08/extending-desktop-via-script/
• http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/

Have fun!