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Dot the I, why QA is important with license agreements

Posted by Michael Hendrickx on January 27, 2010
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Granted, as many others, I don’t read each and every license user agreement when installing software, but the following tops it all. Having an extra pair of eyes doesn’t hurt before you put your creation to market:

Yes, this is a real screenshot.

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Archiving outlook emails, gmail style

Posted by Michael Hendrickx on June 16, 2009
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In Nakheel we have a maximum email quota which gets filled up pretty quickly if you receive large attachements, such as presentations, manuals and silly movies. I wanted to build a macro that imitates Gmail awesome archiving method.

Based on the lifehackers’s article, my version had to move the my selected mails to a PST file on my disk, freeing up space on my “online mailbox”.

I won’t repeat how to make the macro and all, the lifehacker’s article does a very good job in that. I just made a few changes to the code, and that is below:

Sub Archive()
  pst_file = "C:\Backup\archived.pst"
  Set ns = Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
  ns.AddStore (pst_file)
  Set ArchiveFolder = ns.Folders("archived")

  For Each Msg In ActiveExplorer.Selection
    Msg.Move ArchiveFolder
  Next Msg
End Sub

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Dubai Twestival 2009

Posted by Michael Hendrickx on February 13, 2009
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Yesterday evening, it was the Dubai Chapter of the Twestival. Twestival is a festival, organized by the Twitter community worldwide. Over 165 cities worldwide participated on this event to support the Charity Water foundation.

The Dubai chapter was held yesterday in Barasti, Mina Seyahi.

It was an amazing event, and had a great turnout. It’s very handy to put a person behind a “twitter username”, and met many new twitterers.

Thanks for the awesome team who organized it,
m1ke

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PhoneGap, bridging the gap between Safari and the iPhone’s API

Posted by Michael Hendrickx on September 22, 2008
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Another quick one, phonegap is a tool for your iPhone which will allow you to talk to your local API’s. Currently it holds the following:

  • Accelerometer
  • Geo Location
  • Camera (pending)
  • Vibration (pending)

This means that the iPhone portion of places.ae will support Phonegap also. But seriously, if you’re an iPhone user, this is just a must have.

iThanks,
Michael

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Yearbook yourself

Posted by Michael Hendrickx on August 28, 2008
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A fun website I heard about, http://yearbookyourself.com/ allows one to upload a picture and see it with different hair styles and fashion styles.

Try it, it’s awesome.
Michael

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