If you're just starting to explore facebook as a platform for marketing, you will probably won't have 1000/25 (whatever the number is now) fans just yet. Facebook imposed a rule on vanity URLs (http://www.facebook.com/<yourbusinessname>) that pages need to have a minimum number of followers before being allowed to customize their vanity URL. More on that on… Continue reading Vanity URL for Your Facebook Page Without the minimum Fans
Since when did facebook require credit card info to build an app??
Had the urge to build a new app recently when I came upon this. Since facebook doesn’t support mobiles in SG yet, I have to go with the credit card option. What’s going on? I’m not sure I want to give my cc info especially with all those click-jacking apps floating around. But now that… Continue reading Since when did facebook require credit card info to build an app??
Fixed: Wifi keeps dropping on mac/ipad
Ever since we got a new router to replace the one that broke down, we’ve been having trouble with wifi on Macs and iPads at home. Strange cause my win7 machine seemed to be doing fine. So it turns out that we had WEP security on and after searching through forums setting it so WPA… Continue reading Fixed: Wifi keeps dropping on mac/ipad
Building and deploying an office 2003 add-in
Just in case I need to go through this again, here are the resources that I found useful. Walk through on preparing your add-in for deployment http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332051.aspx Enable Windows Installer Logging – if anything fails during deployment, this is useful for figuring out what went wrong. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223300
Surprise London Visit
We arrived LHR at 5am Saturday. We we aiming to get a transit without visa pass for me so we could see a bit of London. But the customs girl told us there was an internal bus to terminal 5 and we didn't have to get out of the airport. Great, we had 12 hours… Continue reading Surprise London Visit
the beer is bigger and better with the Samsung Omnia 7 (vs LG Optimus 7)
Thanks for letting me borrow your phone ken!
Hosting WordPress on a Windows Hoster
I remember having this problem before which I have forgotten about and hadn’t experienced, until I had updated my WordPress installation on a Windows hosted blog. I got the error, “Failed opening required './wp-blog-header.php' “. Just so I remember next time, 2 files I need to update when this happens: index.php change: require('./wp-blog-header.php'); => require('wp-blog-header.php');… Continue reading Hosting WordPress on a Windows Hoster
Will it Blend: Wrapping the Text on Silverlight Chart Legends
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
Weekend Highlights
The Bad Lost Headphones I was listening to tunes on my wp7 on the way back home from work but then uncle cab driver was feeling a bit chatty so I did the polite thing and took off my headphones and chatted with him. I’m not sure whether I remembered to toss the headphones in… Continue reading Weekend Highlights
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
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