In the course of my building our ROI app, I was trying to figure out how to wrap the legends of charts when the text gets too long. This is what I get with the default chart. You’ll see here, there’s a lot of waste of space for the legend when what I really want… Continue reading Will it Blend: Wrapping the Text on Silverlight Chart Legends
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Syncing One Note on your WP7 phone with Office Live
If you start up the Office app, there’s a One Note section Basically, click on all and then refresh. There will be a prompt that will ask you to confirm the creation of your default notebook on your Skydrive. After that’s done, you should be able to access your notes from the phone on http://office.live.com … Continue reading Syncing One Note on your WP7 phone with Office Live
I got myself a new Windows Phone 7 phone (7 phone, 7 phone,..)
Call me easily amused but there. So finally, I got my WP7, its an LG Optimus 7 (LG-E900) Photo of LG taken with my iPhone 3G: Photo of (iPhone viewing photo of LG taken with iPhone 3G) taken with LG. I had wanted to do a whole unboxing thing but just right after I… Continue reading I got myself a new Windows Phone 7 phone (7 phone, 7 phone,..)
Telco security messaging fail?
Earlier on, I tweeted about this but I had to take down the twitpic because I realized that it had my phone number on it (^_^). I received this message a while back and I couldn’t help but think: WTF. O_O The real WTF was finding out that this is 99% likely a legitimate message… Continue reading Telco security messaging fail?
Review of Using Desktop Connect
I’ve been using Desktop Connect for a bit and wanted to share my experiences. First I did a speed test with my iPad. I called Singtel up yesterday and asked to have my 1Mbps data plan switched to the iPad data plan that’s supposedly 7.2Mbps. Maybe it hasn’t taken effect yet. This is the screen… Continue reading Review of Using Desktop Connect
No decent blogging application for the ipad
What started out as a rant about how Office Web apps doesn’t seem to work well with the ipad has become a rant about how the ipad, just like the mac, doesn’t have a decent blogging application. Fine, the ipad seems to be marketed more as a content consuming and non-content creating device but my… Continue reading No decent blogging application for the ipad
Will it Blend: Custom Scrollbar in WPF
DISCLAIMER: I write this post more for myself because I tend to forget how to do things. There can very well be other proper ways of doing this, but this is the “good enough” solution, at least for me. I was playing around with WPF again since it’s been a while. I wanted to customize… Continue reading Will it Blend: Custom Scrollbar in WPF
Get Windows Live Messenger & Bing on my iPhone
I’ve been on an app purchasing spree for a while so I had to update my iTunes account with an SG one. Recently though, MS has released a few apps that are US only: Windows Live Messenger & Bing. So what I did, I created another account with a US country (you can search how… Continue reading Get Windows Live Messenger & Bing on my iPhone
TechFriday: Amazon Kindle 2.5 Update!
So i was quite excited when i was browsing around the Kindle Facebook page and saw some buzz about how the kindle 2.5.2 update was available for international users. It posted a link to the engadget article who in turn links to the forums. I had a bit of difficulty downloading the files listed on… Continue reading TechFriday: Amazon Kindle 2.5 Update!
Useless Tutorial: How to have 2 Accounts with same login name on youtube
I stumbled on this when I logged into YouTube using the wrong password and found myself logged into an account where I had no activity/uploads whatsoever, when I distinctly remember adding favorites and uploads on my account. Apparently, this is what happened: 1. A while back I created a YouTube account with the username Foo,… Continue reading Useless Tutorial: How to have 2 Accounts with same login name on youtube
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