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What is a browser?

Recently some folks at Google asked pedestrians on Times Square in New York if they can explain what a browser is. The result was quite disappointing, no one really could give a good explanation.
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Gmail to Google Docs

For the last year or so I’m using Gmail as my email client. It is a great pleasure to have all email conversation online and always available. But Gmail is not intended to be used as a archive for documents and files. For this I use google docs.

So my project files sit in google docs and my email conversations about a project are sitting in Gmail. This is fine, but when looking for information it’s more convenient to have everything in one place. Continue reading Gmail to Google Docs…

Sign-in trouble with Office Live Workspace

When I signed up to Office Live Workspace I experienced some problems when logging on. The page kept reloading. The steps below solved the problem for me.
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Moving a physical server to Hyper-V

A few years ago I started using virtual machines for testing purposes and running none critical servers. All of these servers started there lives as a Virtual Machine. None of them have ever run on dedicated hardware. Last week we took a closer look at our dedicated servers and realized that some of them were more a sleep than awake. So we decided to virtualize these machines to Hyper-V.

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The Daily Dilbert

In the sidebar I have added a gadget that shows “The Daily Dilbert“. Dilbert is a comic strip that appears on the internet and in numerous magazines. For the folks in the Netherlands, Dilbert appears weekly in the Intermediar magazine. If you are following a Bachelor or Master study you can register yourself on the site of intermediar and you will receive the magazine for free.

More about Dilbert over here

Have fun with the Dilbert strip.

PS. I’m using a widget for the Dilbert strip that can be downloaded here

Use your iPhone abroad

When using your iPhone abroad you may experience difficulties when using GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA/UMTS. This can be resolved by entering the APN settings of your provider. The links below are from a dutch forum thread that points out how to resolve this problem.

http://www.iphoneclub.nl/forum/f18/iphone-internet/f21/gprs-edge-umts-hsdpa-wi-fi/8983-geen-edge-abonnement-buitenland.html

http://www.iphoneclub.nl/forum/f59/iphone-help/f5/wiki-begrippen/1820-gprs.html

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