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Month: March 2008

  • Winmail.dat Viewers (Mac and Windows)

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    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…

  • 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)…

  • 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…

  • 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) {…

  • 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 browsers and keeps…

  • 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…