Misc

Added opera widget to this site

Now this site has a little widget. Widgetize is quite easy to use by following http://widgets.opera.com/widgetize/. I have tested the little widget and it looks cool.

Here is some of the links for this widget for my reference:

The URL:
http://widgets.opera.com/widgetize/Feed%20Reader/Advanced/?serve&skin=sk...

Widgetize this blog:

Web design tools for Drupal theme

I came across OpenWebSuite as I was searching for a tool to develope theme for drupal. It can help you create both html and css files with some sort of generator/code insertion/snippet etc. And it can do tag auto-completion as well.

It's still in the early development but worth to have a look. When combined with Firebug, I should be able to get my themes done much easier.

Other tools like TurboCSS, Personal web editor etc I came accross are either too premature or just don't serve my purpose.

My blog on drupal is up

Now I have this blog setup and running based on Drupal. Will have more content type and more fun. And I will move my old blog site on wordpress into this site too. Yeah!

Plaxo is great but need to be careful with the duplication

The online contact database service from www.plaxo.com is great to help me keep sync with my contact in Exchange/Outlook and Thundbird. Once you setup an account, you can install a plugin into outlook and thundbird so any change you have will be synced through the web based service.

But you need to take extra precaution when you re-install your outlook. I once have plaxo just created all the entries in the online database into the outlook/exchange database when I re-installed outlook client. All the contact items just doubled to two exactly same items. As I don't want to pay the premium service just to fix this kind of duplicates so I had to go through around two hundred items to remove the redudant one. I like redudant often as I design my network but not this kind. :-) After that, I deleted the contacts folder in plaxo web site and re-sync again.

So when you re-install outlook which will retrieve contact from exchange server, just delete the contact/calendar etc in the web site first, then you can install the plaxo plugin, sync up to the web server.

Or you can delete all contact/calendar etc in your exchange server first, then install plugin to pull data from the web server.

As a good practice, it's always good to backup data using export from plaxo web site.

Phone service quick reference

Rogers call forwarding:

  • To Activate: *21*(Receiving phone number)#SEND
  • To Deactivate: #21#SEND
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