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Archive for March, 2008

Winmail.dat Viewers (Mac and Windows)

I occasionally run into a winmail.dat file that I can’t open (typically because some outlook user has “rich text” as their default email type. Although, occasionally they aren’t sure how this happened and the default is HTML or plain text.
I wanted to post on two utilities (one for MacOSX and one for Windows) that [...]

SyncServer Unexpectedly Quit (resolved)

I believe that I have finally resolved the problem on my MacBook when starting Mail.app that it would display this error message “SyncServer has unexpectedly quit” with a relaunch button.
After doing a few google searches I found a site that referenced this problem a way to resolve it.
Link
Since, I wasn’t using .Mac for anything the [...]

Bluetooth AV Controls under Windows with iTunes

In this post, I wanted to document the steps that I had to follow to enable the A/V controls (play, pause, next song, previous song) buttons of my Motorola-S9 headset with my windows computer using iTunes.
Setup used:

Motorola S9 headset
Dell Latitude D830
Dell internal Bluetooth adapter (2.0 adapter with A2DP and AVRCP profiles)
Standard Drivers from Dell’s site [...]

easyPages v0.22 is available for download

You can download it here: http://snydersoft.com/easyPages/
I recently updated easyPages to include a few enhancements:

Added file icons for MSProject, WinZip, and Unknown filetypes
Display last modified time in format “(Updated DD-MMM-YYYY HH:MM)” after file names
Display “new” icon if the file was updated in the last 14days

easyPages is a PHP script that creates a listing of the documents/folders [...]

Twitter and WordPress

I wanted to document one of the hacks that I have made to a the Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget.
Edit to “Twitter Wordpress Sidebar Widget”
I wanted a line break after the time, so I added the following line:
li.appendChild(document.createElement(’br’));
As the last line inside the following “if” statement:
if ( showTimeFirst == 1) {
I also attempted to [...]

Default to Standards mode

I am very excited to hear that Microsoft has decided to reverse it’s decision on the default behavior of IE 8. This is great news for the Web and should keep us moving in a more standards based web platform. Every good decision like this helps to further the standards movement within [...]

Twitter’n

Now that I have successfully moved to my new web hosting provider, I am ready to get back to blogging more regularly. The move was relatively easy, but took time to get everyone to play nicely and move the DNS records and get WordPress upgraded and all the old articles restored.
One of the first [...]