Zooomr are apparently releasing an update on Monday which will activate notes on photos and something they are calling portals. Like Notes, an area of the photo is hotlinked to give you a scrolling view of another photo (such as a closeup shot of an area in the first photo). You can scroll around the closeup within the original photo and then click on it to zoom into the next photo – A unique implementation. The blog post by Kristopher has a link to the YouTube video of it in action.
The Gahanna branch will have free wifi from Monday which will be followed by the other locations throughout the rest of the year – that will be a nice feature to have when studying at the library (which I do about once a year!) It will be interesting to see how fast it is as the lan connection really crawls sometimes but I think that is due to all the kids playing some rpg game on the computers.
7 years ago today (if you count aphian years where 1 aphian year= 1year and 5/7ths of a day) Kristen and I got married. Loads of things have happened since then and I’m looking forward to many more years in the future. (I got in trouble for not blogging about our anniversary but I thought that if I blogged on the anniversary I’d get moaned at 😉
As part of the reinstall on the new pc I installed picassa2 on the pc and discovered that I’ve lost all the tagging information – grrrrrrr. However, I did find this picture that I had played around with a while ago and was wondering if I should change the blog name –
I actually created this post using WindowsLiveWriter – it works pretty well – I didn’t have to enter any image uploading details (although it would be nice to control where the image is uploaded too and I did have to enter the path to the MovableType cgi file but I think that is because I have removed the RSD data for this blog. Update I’m also not sure why it decided to change the font on me too – the font for this post has been edited back to the default.
DailyJournal for OneNote automatically creates new tabs for each day that the journal feature is used in OneNote – great for tracking what has been done on a certain day – yet another weapon in trying to keep my timesheets uptodate.
nucleus data recovery’s Kernel for BKF looks like a good way of recovering from a backup image that is unreadable with ntbackup. Fortunately I’ve not had to do this yet….
However I have had to use PC Inspector’s File Recovery for digital camera cards and the other day I recommended it to a user whose disk full of ghost images were coming back as unreadable – until this utility was used. Well worth downloading if you have not used it already.
Microsoft have created a new blog for System Center essentials which if I remember correctly is a new management tool that enables you to manage a bunch of servers and stuff, including ones not on your network – ideal for a consulting company to keep track of everybody’s servers. Note that I got this impression from a podcast I listened to so I could be wrong but if I’m right, this will be an awesome utility – hopefully it’s not too expensive.
I had a user today who logged a ticket saying that everytime she requested a meeting with someone, the recipient was unable to open the meeting request and add it to their calendar. After trying it on their pc I noticed that it asked if I wanted to add the meeting to the timecard application – this was obviously a custom form and sure enough, it was available in the organizational forms – but how to change it back? I was unable to delete the form from the organization and it took me a while to find the real form location. To solve this, go to the folder view in outlook 2003 and right click on the calendar and choose properties. Change the “When posting to this folder” to read IPM.Appointment and it will all work again.
Now if someone could explain why I had two users complain their pc wouldn’t boot today but started ok when I switched them on I’d like to know how to market my magic aura.
It’s been a long time since I posted a funny 404 page, but if you remember the stupid senator and his tubes, then you’ll appreciate the 404 found at Ed Bott’s site
Note that if you link through to the original page you get an annoying mp3 playing so turn the speakers off if you are at work.
If you get the error message Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 when trying to install a greasemonkey script then you need to create a gm_scripts directory in your profile directory and then create an empty file called config.xml in this directory. I got the information from iPodWizard.net where someone had the same problem. I must admit that the solution is not very obvious from the error code.
As to the reason it happened? I think it’s because the restore of my firefox profile didn’t include that directory for some reason. It turns out that this is because I restored my profile using mozbackup which doesn’t backup this directory. I’ve requested this feature/bug in the next version.