Thoughts on many things
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Creating a shortcut to start a service.
I’ve finally got my HTPC up and running with Team Mediaportal‘s lovely Media Center replacement Media Portal. One of the issues I faced while getting it up and running, was getting it to work with my MCE Remote. The solution to this was a third-party app called IR Server Suite. Once installed, every function in…
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Lotus Notes 8 – ‘A Runtime Error has occurred. Do you wish to Debug?’
I’ve had a few cases of users running into this error message in Lotus Notes 8.0.1: The problem is tied to the embedded version of IBM’s instant messaging system Sametime, and has been reliably reproduced in any of the following conditions: Initiating a chat session Clicking the telephone icon Receiving a chat…
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Reducing spam – the advantage to having a top level domain
I post comments in many blogs, and for a while, I had a serious problem that whenever I posted my comment with my emailadress, I’d soon see a marked increase in spammail. This all really cleared up when I actually got my own top level domain, razumny.no, and here’s how: Once the domain was…
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Syncronising Lotus Notes Calendar with Google Calendar
At work, I use IBM’s Lotus Notes as my primary email and calendar client. It works well enough, but there are some issues. My main problem with it though, is that syncronising calendar data with Google Calendar is nigh on impossible, at least out of the box. Finding this annoying, I talked to a…
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A glance at different outlooks
Following monday’s post a colleague of mine sent me the below picture. Although I’ll grant you it is oversimplifying things more than a bit, it still has a vein of truth in it, not to mention the fact that it is more than slightly amusing… (Click the image to see the full size)
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Opera revisited
It’s been a while since I last wrote of my trying out Opera. Since then, my tech-savvy friend has taken it upon himself to bring me into the light. A calm evening of beer and pizza quickly turned into just that, with the addendum of him prodding me to use Opera in no uncertain terms.…
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Quick Heal PCTuner – reviewed
One of a few things I do on my spare time is review software. The last piece of software I reviewed is called PCTuner, marketed by a company called QuickHeal. Marketed as a simple solution to the classic problem of a computer getting slower with time, it is said to “…cleans and optimizes your PC…
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Changing the system language in Google Chrome
Google Chrome ships with a plethora of different system languages to suit any user. When I downloaded it, it installed with norwegian as the default language. I prefer having my software in english, so here’s how to change the system language: Click the wrench icon Select “options” Go to the middle tab (in English…
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Google Chrome – First impressions
Web search and advertising giant Google has gone against what seemed to be a foregone conclusion by not only not buying the norwegian web browser development firm Opera software, but also publishing their own web browser, called Chrome. They’ve built it on Web Kit, the same rendering engine used by Apple’s Safari, and added their…
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Adding a label cloud to your BlogSpot blog
I like to apply all the relevant labels or tags to my blog posts, so that they are easily found through search. I was getting annoyed that my list of tags was getting longer than my actual blog, and decided to do something about it. There are many ways of doing it, from adding javascript…