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I've just spent the entire evening, from 20:30 until now, trying to get a windows laptop print on my printer which is now hooked up to a mac mini. It still doesn't work. I think the problem is that somehow the windows laptop makes the smbd daemon on the mac crash. Which can be the fault of either the windows or mac. But I don't care. I sent the file via Skype to my Macbook, and that found the printer right away and printed the doc within 10 seconds. The windows laptop still doesn't print after one and a half hour.

The only thing that has to happen now is the last windows laptop in my home to break.

Posted by Michiel at 10:03 PM | Permalink

Ever since importing Gerben's opml list, I've been overwhelmed by the number of daily news item. So much so, that I've simply stopped reading my feeds altogether. It was just too much. But now I've rearranged my feeds into three simple folders: Read always, read often and read sometimes. I put all of the stuff I absolutely have to keep track of in the top folder. Thanks to the brilliant 'Next unread' feature of Netnewswire, I can simply click at the top group and start hitting that button.

Posted by Michiel at 03:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

When I switched from Windows, there were a few conventient tools that I really missed. One was the brilliant Roboform, password and form manager. Once you have this program and use it, it becomes hard to live without.
But I have found a decent candidate for Mac, called 1password. It can autofill forms and remember passwords, and works across all browsers. It works particularly nice with Sitestat, the web analytics product my company sells. It allows me to remember multiple logins, and switch them with a single click on the login screen.
Perhaps we need to build that functionality into Sitestat.
It's still not as good as Roboform, which was far better in form management, and allowed me to save home and work address and credit card information. Still, 1Password is a joy to have. You get hooked immediately. If you have a Mac, get the free trial.

Posted by Michiel at 07:02 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)