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Google Reader still promoted on its logon page

daniel — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:25:39 +0000

Nice to know they still promote Google Reader on its logon page, despite it shutting down in a few months.

You can even still take the tour.

Much spam from iCMG

daniel — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:19:59 +0000

At work I’m getting repeated spams from one mob which send surprisingly similar emails about conferences and training from various domains, which include:

enterprisearchitecturetrainingtoday.com
businessawards2013.com
BPMArchitects.com
newbpmtraining.net

Apart from using many different domains, these guys also continually change the address within the domain, and Outlook doesn’t appear to be able to consign an entire domain to the blocked senders list.

They do include this footer:

You are receiving this e-mail because you happen to be either our client or were added to our
comprehensive database on account of your contribution in the IT domain. However, should
you no longer wish to receive any further mails from our side, please Click here Unsubscribe
iCMG | Level 9, Avaya House, 123 Epping Road, North Ryde, NSW.| Phone +61 2 8005 0977

…but of course I’ve tried that and it doesn’t work… it probably only served to prove to them that mine was a live address.

I have been putting these domains into the spam senders list in Exchange, but they still get through. I can only assume that the list in Exchange is a “soft” one.

Annoying.

I have, of course, passed on a spam message to the ACMA spam reporting people… but I don’t hold out much hope of any success there.

IE10 promotion

daniel — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:35:36 +0000

You can see the problem here…

The new IE promotion web site talks a lot about IE10, but if you’re running Windows 8, you’d already have it, and if you’re not running Windows 8, you can’t use it.

(Well, not yet. Apparently IE10 will be available for Win7 at some stage… there is a “Release Preview” available. I’m guessing that’s Micro-speak for “beta”.)

Forcing Youtube to another aspect ratio

daniel — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:41:50 +0000

This is handy… I had a Youtube video which Youtube had detected as 16:9, even though it’s actually 4:3.

You can tell Youtube to override on playback by adding a tag: yt:stretch=4:3

There are other tags for cropping to 16:9, or forcing 16:9 display — more details in this article: Fix aspect ratio of YouTube videos, which is based on the official Youtube article

Wikipedia is now blacked out

daniel — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:11:35 +0000

Wikipedia is now blacked-out for 24 hours.

Note that at the time of writing, clicking the “Learn more” link takes you to a page that momentarily has more information, but then itself gets blacked-out. D’oh. I’m guessing they’ll fix that soon.

I’m guessing the Google Cache will get a good workout in the next 24 hours. To use it, search Google as normal; look for the Wikipedia link, and click the right button [1] to make the cache preview appear, then click the “Cached” link [2] to look at it in full size.

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