ARRGGG - trust me reading below is the short version.
There are 4 different locations on your pc and browser (and I think even the live.com login preferences though I could never tell if this made a difference) that determine your ability to download the "form feed" application for the Live.com toolbar.....without which ie7 loses functionality compared to ie6.
Besides it's not like it is a piece of 'geographically sensitive' content in the first place.
It's definitely a love hate relationship with me and Microsoft.
Cheers,
Dean
Hello Dean,
My name is Lene and I am a Subject Matter Expert within the Windows Live Toolbar department.
Your e-mail was escalated to me and I would like to assist you with your issue on getting the Form fill button.
I know how importance this feature is to you.
Please change the Regional and Language Settings to USA. To change the default system language, you may follow these steps:1. Open the Control Panel. 2. Open Regional and Language Options.
This should resolve your issue. Even though you followed the steps below because your language is set to Australia you will be unable to download "form fill" as it is not available outside the USA.
We appreciate your continued support as we strive to provide you with the highest quality service available. Thank you for using Windows Live Toolbar.
Sincerely,
Lene
Hello Dean,
Thank you for writing back to Windows Live Toolbar Technical Support. My name is Arlene and I understand that you need assistance in getting the Form fill button. I realize the importance of this matter.
Here are some steps that have proved successful for some of our customers. It is possible that you may have performed some or all of these steps previously, but the key seems to be the order in which they are performed:
1.
Clear the Windows and Internet Explorer Temp files by using the Disk Cleanup Utility. To do this, follow these steps:
a.
Click Start, and then click My Computer.
b.
Right-click the disk on which you want to free space, and then click Properties.
c.
On the General tab, click Disk Cleanup.
d.
After the program has finished determining how much space you can clear, select the check boxes next to the files that you want to remove on the Disk Cleanup tab. Make sure that you select Temporary files and Temporary Internet Files.
e.
Click OK.
f.
Click Yes to continue with this action, and then click OK.
2.
Install the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility to prepare to remove any leftover parts of the toolbar or the add-ins. For more information about the utility, visit the following Web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301
a.
Visit the following Web site:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/9/d/e9d80355-7ab4-45b8-80e8-983a48d5e1bd/msicuu2.exe
b.
In the File Download box, click Save.
c.
Save the file to the desktop.
d.
Locate the Msicuu.exe file on the desktop, and then double-click the file.
NOTE You may not see the ".exe" part of the file name.
e.
Click Next to start the installation.
f.
After the installation is complete, you can move the installation file to the Recycle Bin.
3.
Run the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. To do this, follow these steps:
a.
Click Start, point to All Programs, and then click Windows Install Clean Up.
b.
Select the programs that you want to remove, and then click Remove. Select Live Toolbar, MSN Toolbar, and any toolbar add-ins that you can identify.
c.
Click OK, and then click Exit.
4.
Make sure that Windows Installer no longer detects the Toolbar and the Toolbar add-ins.
5.
Remove any traces of these items from the registry. To do this, follow these steps.
IMPORTANT This article contains information about modifying the registry. Before you modify the registry, make sure to back it up and make sure that you understand how to restore the registry if a problem occurs. For information about how to back up, restore, and edit the registry, visit the following Web site:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256986
WARNING If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
a.
Click Start, click Run, type regedit , and then click OK.
b.
Expand the folders.
c.
Locate the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft folder.
d.
In the Microsoft folder, make sure that the MSN Toolbar and MSN Apps folders are not present. If these folders are present, right-click each folder, and then click Delete.
e.
Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft folder.
f.
In the Microsoft folder, make sure that the MSN Toolbar and MSN Apps folders are not present. If the folders are present, right-click each folder, and then click Delete.
6.
Install the latest version of the Live Toolbar. To do this, follow these steps:
a.
Start Internet Explorer.
b.
Visit the following Web site:
http://toolbar.live.com/
c.
Click Download.
d.
In the File Download box, click Save.
e.
Save the file to the desktop.
f.
Locate the downloaded file on the desktop, and then double-click the file.
g.
Click Next.
h.
Follow the prompts to install the toolbar. You may want to add or remove certain add-ins.
i.
After the installation is complete, you can move the installation file to the Recycle Bin.
7.
If you want to keep the toolbar, step 6 is the last step. If you do not want to keep the toolbar, remove it. To do this, follow these steps:
a.
Click Start, click Run, type the following command, and then click OK: control appwiz.cpl The Add or Remove Programs dialog box opens.
b.
In the Currently installed programs list, click Windows Live Toolbar, and then click Remove or click Change/Remove.
c.
When you are prompted, click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the program, and then click OK.
We appreciate your continued support as we strive to provide you with the highest quality service available. Thank you for using Windows Live Toolbar.
Sincerely,
Arlene
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Sen. Craig's New Music Video
From Crackle:
I have no idea who National Banana are but this is a great example of what internet video should look like, great stories -good production values, but most importantly with fantastic story telling techniques.
Check out some of these other video's
http://crackle.com/c/Comedy/CIA_Interrogation_Tapes_Found/2142031/#ml=fi%3D%26fpl%3D264891%26o%3D12
http://crackle.com/c/Comedy/Webcam_Pundits/2078488/#ml=fi%3D%26fpl%3D264891%26o%3D12
http://crackle.com/c/Comedy/Special_Presidential_Address/2078485/#ml=fi%3D%26fpl%3D264891%26o%3D12
Cheers,
Dean
Monday, June 09, 2008
Live Mesh in the Flesh
So after posting this a few weeks ago http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/live-mesh.html (check out the comments, lots of discussions and links there - you should also check out this YouTube video also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RY-q8k2RRI ), I've been waiting with baited breath for LiveMesh to be released to general public.So i was playing with microsoft live toolbar this weekend (form fill has disappeared again), and noticed LiveMesh was an option on the Live toolbar.
Woot, didn't even realise they were giving access yet.
So far it's a little disappointing, only computer file synchronisation (come on Ray you had that with Groove back in 1998) but the promise of mobile synchronisation is tantalisingly promised with the 'mobile icon' already in the devices list.
Some neat add-ons in that you are supposed to be able to log into 'mesh' from any browser and access the devices desktop (will be interesting to see how that works for mobile - could be an interesting competitor to Dashwire http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/dashwire.html )
A couple of beta negatives that I noticed straight away;
1/ you can only sync files - not entire folders
2/ You have to upload files 1 x 1, eg you cant 'select' 4 or 5 at a time to upload (very tedious).
3/ The naming space for files is limited.....very disappointing in that some of the name is often left off.
Like I said, if this does what it's supposed to do eg. syncing live favourites between multiple machines, syncing outlook preferences and spam/block lists between machines, syncing desktops and wall papers etc between machines then it could be the best thing since sliced bread.
At the moment, its barely a 2 out of 5 on the geek meter.
Cheers,
Dean
Sunday, June 08, 2008
"How you doing.....?"
It was a simple enough question, "Howyoudoing....?" in that brooklyn drawl.
The answer spinning around in my head was "well I'm torn, on one hand I hate the obtuse racial profiling you are are demonstrating on this fine Sunday afternoon but on the other hand I appreciate your efforts to police and clean up marcus garvey park of drugs and anti social behaviour...."
I couldn't think of anything so I just said "cool" and kept on walking my dog.
The policeman went back to watching his partner frisking the 3 black youths they had lined up against the wall. Yes I didn't see why they chose these 3 particular people to stop and frisk, I'm sure the police personally had a good reason to be doing so but it didn't remove the 'hate' in my throat for a society that allows 3 people hanging out in a park to be searched and for the middle age white dude to just walk on by.
Cheers,
Dean
The answer spinning around in my head was "well I'm torn, on one hand I hate the obtuse racial profiling you are are demonstrating on this fine Sunday afternoon but on the other hand I appreciate your efforts to police and clean up marcus garvey park of drugs and anti social behaviour...."
I couldn't think of anything so I just said "cool" and kept on walking my dog.
The policeman went back to watching his partner frisking the 3 black youths they had lined up against the wall. Yes I didn't see why they chose these 3 particular people to stop and frisk, I'm sure the police personally had a good reason to be doing so but it didn't remove the 'hate' in my throat for a society that allows 3 people hanging out in a park to be searched and for the middle age white dude to just walk on by.
Cheers,
Dean
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Comcast face 3 civil suits over P2P meddling
Comcast may have agreed to end its practice of using forged TCP reset packets to hinder the P2P traffic of its customers, but the cable provider isn't out of the woods yet. Three class-action lawsuits were filed against Comcast this week in California, Illinois, and New Jersey, alleging that the company deceived and misled consumers by advertising that it offered "unfettered access to all the content, services, and applications that the Internet has to offer."
For those just catching up, complaints from suspicious customers began surfacing last fall about Comcast using questionable methods to block BitTorrent traffic on its network. In October, the Associated Press decided to perform its own independent tests to see if the allegations were true, and found further evidence that Comcast had been sending "fake" TCP reset packets claiming to be from its customers attempting to use BitTorrent, therefore timing out their downloads and seeds. In November, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released a report detailing its own investigation, confirming that BitTorrent performance was being selectively degraded by unexpected TCP reset packets.
(more)... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080606-customers-cry-fraud-over-comcast-p2p-meddling-in-new-lawsuit.html
Yep what can I say, play dirty expect to get sued by people who are paying for your product and not getting what they expected.
I'm about to place a bet with anyone who wants to take me up on it,
"P2P/traffic shaping/QOS etc will be what breaks up the current USA monopoly for cable companies"
I think in less than 3 years from now the FCC will report that the current monopoly of exclusive delivery regions is unworkable, that for too long cable companies have abused their monopolistic control over connectivity and that this is the catalyst that is used to 'break' current distribution agreements.
The FCC will come in and announce a period of open access that will encourage new entrants to rapidly deploy a mix of fiber and radio services - BUT the new structure will allow ANY carrier to block/manage/control access to the Internet in anyway they see fit THOUGH because of competition end users who find this an imposition will be free to go to their competitors.
Issues of 'cherry picking' and neglected areas will then ensue but this can be solved in a similar process to the way telephone calls are 'subsidised' in Ohio/Wyoming etc (basically all Internet connections pay a 'tariff' which is then used to provide subsidies services to areas that would be more expensive.
If the USA government was smart they would control through legislation and minimum connection speed mandates etc but here in the USA this government intervention is seen to be as bad as communism which is why Asian countries like Korea get government mandated connectivity which improves over all education, commercial efficiencies and lifestyle benefits......and the USA doesn't.
Either way time to start investing in smart smaller dsl/fiber 'data rbocs' (as they will be valuable 6 years from now when they start being acquired by the majors) and shorting Time Warner/Comcast etc who can only go down from current penetration levels.
Cheers,
Dean
For those just catching up, complaints from suspicious customers began surfacing last fall about Comcast using questionable methods to block BitTorrent traffic on its network. In October, the Associated Press decided to perform its own independent tests to see if the allegations were true, and found further evidence that Comcast had been sending "fake" TCP reset packets claiming to be from its customers attempting to use BitTorrent, therefore timing out their downloads and seeds. In November, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released a report detailing its own investigation, confirming that BitTorrent performance was being selectively degraded by unexpected TCP reset packets.
(more)... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080606-customers-cry-fraud-over-comcast-p2p-meddling-in-new-lawsuit.html
Yep what can I say, play dirty expect to get sued by people who are paying for your product and not getting what they expected.
I'm about to place a bet with anyone who wants to take me up on it,
"P2P/traffic shaping/QOS etc will be what breaks up the current USA monopoly for cable companies"
I think in less than 3 years from now the FCC will report that the current monopoly of exclusive delivery regions is unworkable, that for too long cable companies have abused their monopolistic control over connectivity and that this is the catalyst that is used to 'break' current distribution agreements.
The FCC will come in and announce a period of open access that will encourage new entrants to rapidly deploy a mix of fiber and radio services - BUT the new structure will allow ANY carrier to block/manage/control access to the Internet in anyway they see fit THOUGH because of competition end users who find this an imposition will be free to go to their competitors.
Issues of 'cherry picking' and neglected areas will then ensue but this can be solved in a similar process to the way telephone calls are 'subsidised' in Ohio/Wyoming etc (basically all Internet connections pay a 'tariff' which is then used to provide subsidies services to areas that would be more expensive.
If the USA government was smart they would control through legislation and minimum connection speed mandates etc but here in the USA this government intervention is seen to be as bad as communism which is why Asian countries like Korea get government mandated connectivity which improves over all education, commercial efficiencies and lifestyle benefits......and the USA doesn't.
Either way time to start investing in smart smaller dsl/fiber 'data rbocs' (as they will be valuable 6 years from now when they start being acquired by the majors) and shorting Time Warner/Comcast etc who can only go down from current penetration levels.
Cheers,
Dean
Friday, June 06, 2008
tATu - Friend or Foe
Well what do you know Tatu are still around (and if you check out the mood music box you'll find a couple of their old tracks as well).
Not sure how many new tracks they have but it sounds like they are still sounding pretty good (and someones been practising the piano).
Also check out the video for their song "30 Minutes", looks like some of their subject matter is getting more 'intelligently adult'.
Cheers,
Dean
Extreme Ski Gliding
Holy cow - man this looks like fun, lets see if ski patrol can catch me when I'm wearing a paragliding rig, way cool.
Anyone have any other similar videos?
Cheers,
Dean
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Headless advertising
He or she has been gorily removing heads from well known advertisements such as this year’s blockbuster movie “Sex and the City” the movie.Kissing couples, beautiful models and aspiring celebs have all come under ‘the East London decapitator’s’ knife; their beautiful heads replaced by bony, blood drenched stumps. His artworks are defined by the media as culture jamming or sub-vertising, which Wikipedia describes as, ‘the practice of making spoofs or parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make a statement,”
Apart from the inaccurate physiology I think this is cool :)
Counter culture at its best.
Cheers
Dean
(btw if you like this you might want to check out one of NY's own culture jammers www.thenithitme.com http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/street-art.html )
(btw if you like this you might want to check out one of NY's own culture jammers www.thenithitme.com http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/street-art.html )
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Time Warner Cable Broadband Tiers Lead to Fears
..... lol only fears of their shareholders.
http://gigaom.com/2008/06/02/time-warner-cable-broadband-tiers-lead-to-fears/
Is Time Warner Cable crazy? As I review the pricing plans unveiled today for the broadband and cable provider’s tiered levels of service, I can’t help but wonder that. Earlier this year, the company said it would experiment with tiered pricing in Beaumont, Texas, and now has set up a pricing plan that ranges from $29.95 a month for something I’d call “barely broadband” at 768 kilobits per second with a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Overage fees will be $1 per gigabyte, and customers will be able to monitor their bandwidth consumption via the company’s web site.
I’m off to another provider the moment that pricing arrives here in New York - thats insane.
Hope you are reading this Verizon etc etc, I’d be planning my next rollout to every location that Time Warner announces this new pricing scheme being implemented - lol like shooting fish in a barrel sometimes.
Cheers,
Dean
http://gigaom.com/2008/06/02/time-warner-cable-broadband-tiers-lead-to-fears/
Is Time Warner Cable crazy? As I review the pricing plans unveiled today for the broadband and cable provider’s tiered levels of service, I can’t help but wonder that. Earlier this year, the company said it would experiment with tiered pricing in Beaumont, Texas, and now has set up a pricing plan that ranges from $29.95 a month for something I’d call “barely broadband” at 768 kilobits per second with a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Overage fees will be $1 per gigabyte, and customers will be able to monitor their bandwidth consumption via the company’s web site.
I’m off to another provider the moment that pricing arrives here in New York - thats insane.
Hope you are reading this Verizon etc etc, I’d be planning my next rollout to every location that Time Warner announces this new pricing scheme being implemented - lol like shooting fish in a barrel sometimes.
Cheers,
Dean
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Iron Jawed Angels
Anybody who says there is nothing good on tv should be made to watch this 'made for tv docu-drama'.
Iron Jawed Angels http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338139/ is nothing short of perfect.
Hillary Swank is a hugely powerful actress who shows a depth of talent that makes Million Dollar Baby look like a walk in the park.
"Iron Jawed Angels" is an HBO historical biopic/docudrama which turns the lens on Swank who delivers a sterling performance as Quaker, suffragist, and women's right activist Alice Paul during her campaign to secure the 19th Constitutional amendment. Director Katja von Garnier, who gave us the wonderfully hip girl-power cult flick "Bandits", takes on the daunting task of delivering an entertaining film about a somewhat dry, esoteric subject and a relatively unknown character (as history goes) and succeeds. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes intense, spritzed with humor and drama, and packed with zingers and maxims, "Iron Jawed Angels" may be a chick flick but no man can deny nor should fail to appreciate the grace and beauty is delivers.
Take a look at all the 10 out of 10 ratings in the imdb comments - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338139/usercomments
We just 'happened upon it' but you should seek this movie out and watch it right now as it's a hugely powerful story about what it took to get women the vote here in the USA.
Any female who 'neglects' to vote after watching this movie just doesn't get it.
Cheers,
Dean
BTW just came across this music video clip of Sarah McLaughlin's song Possession which is featured in the movie.
There is also this preview but it's not as moving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StF3_Mj0tBg&NR=1
Iron Jawed Angels http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338139/ is nothing short of perfect.
Hillary Swank is a hugely powerful actress who shows a depth of talent that makes Million Dollar Baby look like a walk in the park.
"Iron Jawed Angels" is an HBO historical biopic/docudrama which turns the lens on Swank who delivers a sterling performance as Quaker, suffragist, and women's right activist Alice Paul during her campaign to secure the 19th Constitutional amendment. Director Katja von Garnier, who gave us the wonderfully hip girl-power cult flick "Bandits", takes on the daunting task of delivering an entertaining film about a somewhat dry, esoteric subject and a relatively unknown character (as history goes) and succeeds. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes intense, spritzed with humor and drama, and packed with zingers and maxims, "Iron Jawed Angels" may be a chick flick but no man can deny nor should fail to appreciate the grace and beauty is delivers.
Take a look at all the 10 out of 10 ratings in the imdb comments - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338139/usercomments
We just 'happened upon it' but you should seek this movie out and watch it right now as it's a hugely powerful story about what it took to get women the vote here in the USA.
Any female who 'neglects' to vote after watching this movie just doesn't get it.
Cheers,
Dean
BTW just came across this music video clip of Sarah McLaughlin's song Possession which is featured in the movie.
There is also this preview but it's not as moving http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StF3_Mj0tBg&NR=1
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