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Google presentatie

Robert Buzink — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:17:06 +0000

Met Google documents kun je documenten online aanmaken, opslaan, bekijken, delen en publiceren. Word en pdf natuurlijk. Maar je kunt ook excel sheets aanmaken en door anderen laten vullen door middel van webformulieren. Sinds kort je zelfs ‘powerpoint’ presentaties maken, delen en publiceren. En dat allemaal zonder powerpoint, word, excel of wat voor office-product dan ook. Steker nog, je hoeft er helemaal geen programma voor te installeren. Alleen even inloggen en al je documenten en bijbehorende tools staan tot je beschikking.

Google zet een grote stap richting vervanging van de desktop door online diensten. Je hebt eigenlijk alleen nog maar een browser nodig op je apparaat (of dat nu een pc, laptop, telefoon, mp3-speler of game console is) en een internet connectie. En een dadelijk een abonnement op de diensten van Google natuurlijk. Maar totdat we er allemaal verslaafd aan zijn, is Google documents gratis

a gadget you cannot put in your pocket

Robert Buzink — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:16:52 +0000

Google calendar – windows mobile PDA synchronization

Robert Buzink — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:11:58 +0000

Now I have a PDA with flat rate internet, possibilities emerge to become even more efficient and machine like . I want to get emails like before I got SMS text messages and I want to have a calendar that I can access from my phone and through any PC. Email was no problem, gmail-pop to outlook mobile is easy to set up (even easier than in pc-windows!). The calendar was a bigger problem.

After trying many things, I found a good (free) solution to syncronise your PDA (windows mobile) calendar with an online one, without using a PC:

ActiveGcSync by Gil Milow

Just run the program in the background of your PDA and every 15 minutes or so it synchronizes your mobile outlook calendar with your personal google calendar (both ways)!

Just make sure the timezones of your google and outlook calendar are the same!

YouTube Brackets (WordPress Plugin)

Robert Buzink — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:24:56 +0000

YouTube offers a service that sends a video you are watching to your blog. It does not send html-code to your blog, but a code like this:

[ youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=4yX1F_nTcfc]

This works fine for blogs hosted on wordpress.com, but with standalone setups of wordpress it doesn’t work at all.

That’s why I quickly put together a plugin that makes the bracket code work. I used the Quicktime posting plugin as a starter. Thank you, Shawn Van Every.

Usage
Setup your standalone wordpress blog at YouTube and send a video to your blog. Or just copy the url of the YouTube video you are watching and put it in your blog like this:

[ youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=4yX1F_nTcfc] (without the space between bracket and y, though).

You can also set the size of the video in your post. Do something like this: [ youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jjgk1-ac1I 150 100] (without the space between bracket and y, though).

YouTube.com directions
1. Go to YouTube.com
2. (Create an acount and) login
3. Go to ‘My Account/Account settings/Video posting Settings’
4. Choose ‘Add a Blog/Site’.
5. Choose ‘WordPress Self-Hosted’, fill in username and password of your WP blog, fill in api URL (http://your blog’s URL/xmlrpc.php) and a random WP API key (get one here).¹ and click on the ‘Add Blog’ button.
6. Watch a video at YouTube.com and choose ‘Post Video’ from the options below the video.

Download

YouTube Brackets 3.0

Changelog: Cleaner code, pretty url support (youtube.com/v/), css (span class youtube). -Special thanks to Mike Thompson-

Youtube Brackets 2.1

Changelog: Resolved conflict with Shawns great quicktime posting plugin and added html-comment around code.

YouTube Brackets 2 beta

Change log: Code now validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional (thanks to Karen). Is only tested with Firefox and Internet Explorer though, but most probably works with all browsers. If you want to be sure, use version 1 (below).

YouTube Brackets 1

Change log: Added size variables and cleaned up the code a bit.

YouTube Brackets 1 beta

Installation
Upload to plugin directory and activate through admin-section/plugins.

You have to register at wordpress.com in order to to get an api-key. You can register without creating a blog. It’s stupid YouTube asks for an API key with Self-Hosted WordPress blogs. They don’t need it at all. With Flickr you don’t have to provide an API key.

Van peer naar peer

Robert Buzink — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:11:24 +0000

Dag vriendjes en vriendinnetjes. Voor de meeste van jullie ben ik de enige nerd die jullie kennen, dus voel ik me af en toe verplicht wat kennis vanuit het nerddom tot jullie te laten komen.

Miscrosoft heeft in één van haar laatste updates iets raars gedaan waardoor je ineens veel minder snel bestanden kunt downloaden via p2p software als BitComet, Limewire, etc. Je kunt dit verhelpen door dit programmaatje te starten en twee keer op de ‘Y’ toets te drukken.