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I like – You like!

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Nowadays everybody wants to tell about what he/she likes or dislikes. Some of them even sing about it- the most impressive one is Keri Hilson with her song “I like”: 47 times in 3:40 min (look at the lyrics)

For me it is becoming an obvious trend which is why I’d like to provide you the chance to say “I like” to our posts ;-) (look at the upper right corner)

Wow – This blog is connected to facebook! How did you do that? – Actually that is pretty easy. Because of the new Open Graph Protocol every website/blog can be connected to a new kind of social network – The Open Graph (see introduction from Mark Zuckerberg):




And if you use Wordpress as your blogging platform it is even easier to add the “I like” Button to your blog: Just install one of the available plugins! We are using “Like” from Bottomless…

Welcome to the web3.0 which has the ability to like, dislike and maybe one day: to love ;-)

(Installing this WP-Plugin and writing this article took me 15min.)

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Activating a Base (E-Plus) voice mailbox

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Some weeks ago my girlfriend got a new cell phone plan including a brand new cell phone :)
(About the problems with the phone itself she will tell you later in an extra posting ;-) )

Today she asked me to activate the voice mailbox – So I said: “Baby, I’ll do that for you ;-) ”
So I started on google with the words “e-plus mailbox” and got some postings that say, that you have two options: call the hotline (which would cost a lot of money) or do it online at http://my.base.de. So I tried to register my girlfriend at my.base.de – no luck, the website said: “Sorry it is not working – Please try again later!”.
Hahaha – somehow the admins learned to much from the cell phone networkers ;-)

So I’ve used google again and I’ve found
http://www.base.de/downloads/BASE_Bedienungsanleitung.pdf
which is obviously the manual of the service :)

So I took her phone and called 9911* which is the number to call the voice mailbox setup. Then a computer voice told me “Herzlich Willkommen im E-Plus Mailbox-System. Diese E-Plus-Mailbox ist momentan nicht erreichbar – Bitte versuchen Sie es später noch einmal!” in plain english that means “Welcome to the voice mailbox system. This voice mailbox is actually not available – please try again later!”…

I’ve tried again half an hour later – same result: still no voice mailbox :(

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DELL Latitude E4300 Touchpad

Monday, November 30th, 2009

For work I use a DELL E4300, which is a really nice and handy laptop. But one thing that gets on my nerves is that sometimes when I type a long text the text cursor jumps to the position of where the mouse pointer is. After several minutes I come to realize, that a problem with the integrated touchpad has occurred. (I kid you not I was not even able to complete this sentence without this happening.)

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So I’ve started investigating the problem in detail…
…I’ve tried to deactivate the touchpad via driver but the driver is also needed for the pointing stick :(
…I’ve tried to deactivate the touchpad via BIOS but there you can only deactivate both – the touchpad and the pointing stick :(

So there is only one way to work around this: Use an external mouse.

PS: Lenovo disables the touchpad if you start to type :)
PPS: My girlfriend also has problems with my laptop because the letters z and y are switched – Hahaha :)

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