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It has been discussed on many places, but since a month or so, GMail has received a new GUI. Nothing really earth shattering, if you ask me, but it shows that Google is taking the remarks serious. Most ‘industry watchers’ seem to think that this is one of the first steps in the process of getting GMail to be Google Gears compatible.

When you’re not sure about what Google Gears is, think of it as a dump of part of the internet on your machine, for those moments when you’re not connected to the ‘net. It is similar to Adobe AIR in many respects. These types of web services would be available everywhere, anytime, thus starting to make inroads in the turf of the desktop application market. Until now, that has been the major selling point for desktop applications : Microsoft engineers complaining “but what if you don’t have a network connection”?

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You might have noticed by older posts here that I am a member of the FON community. That means I offer the ability to other FON members to use my wireless access point in exchange for access to theirs when I happen to be in the vicinity. FON is backed by Skype and Google (for obvious reasons I would say), and has created a router for their own network about a year ago called the Fonera.

I guess, with the Fonera+ around the corner, there are still shitloads of Fonera’s available, and now they are giving them away for free. Really free, as you don’t even have to pay the shipping costs. I ordered mine today, and I know exactly where I will send them. I know some friends that have not yet succumbed to the Wifi temptation. Time to let them sweat

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Since just over 2 weeks, I’ve installed the Analytics plugin for WordPress, and am looking at the number of people coming to my pages, and how they end up here. It’s quite interesting to see using which search terms people land on your sites. Posts from quite some time ago still attract visitors, which also helps with the click-rate on the Google Ads on the pages.

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I’m sure most people are aware of the existance of WebEx, one of the first web-based solutions for large-scale virtual meetings. As business is becoming more and more global, travel is risking to become a large cost and time waster. I’ve worked in a company that was present in 6 countries over 2 continents, and meetings with representatives from the different countries were very expensive.
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This very interesting post is not only useful when you are a freelancer. At the moment, I work at EDS on a project for the Flemish Government and some of these tools have really come in handy in other occasions too.
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Na lange tijd ben ik eindelijk begonnen met een visuele verfrissing van de site die al een tijdje op zich liet wachten. Op den duur wordt het standaard WordPress thema wat afgezaagd, en op den duur wil je toch iets uniekers. Ik heb een tijdje gespeeld met het idee om zelf een thema samen te stellen, maar als je ziet hoeveel tijd ik er nu al voor nodig gehad heb, is het safe te veronderstellen dat een verandering naar een zelf gebrouwen thema niet meer voor dit jaar zou geweest zijn.

Nu ik toch bezig was met het aanpassen van thema’s heb i mijn andere persona ook maar aangepast. Neem gerust een kijkje op Karekiet39, en de Nebulagame website.

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Ik had wat problemen na de installatie van Java 6 eerste versie. Dan heb ik deze post gevonden:
Firefox and Java JRE update problem fixed at thought-after
waarna ik gewoon mijn laatste update verwijderde. Nu werken applets opnieuw perfect in FireFox 2.0.0.3. Tof!

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Joke laat niet na me eraan te herinneren dat ik nog niets uit te brengen he (ik ben eraan bezig, me niet opjagen), maar de dag zal komen dat deze 50 pers communiqué sites van pas zullen komen. En met 50 gratis of betaal-sites zal er wel ergens iemand opmerken wat je aan het doen bent zeker?

50 Press Release Submission Websites

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Microsoft mentioned that it will support OpenID as one of the technologies in their upcoming Identity servers. That took me quite by surprise, as Microsoft is used to develop technologies themselves and use their immense market power to push the technology onto the market. Not so this time it seems. After the debacle of Microsoft Passport as a universal Single Sign-on solution, the guys from Redmond backed one of the large horses out there, read more »

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Als opvolging van mijn vorige post, heb ik de FON router getest, en ik ben er heeel tevreden over. Het was een etappe met hindernissen, maar het resultaat is het enige wat telt natuurlijk.

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