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Customising Outlook 2010 Ribbon makes you happy!

Lasse Storgaard — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:44:26 +0000

I’m very satisfied with Outlook 2010. They really rocked the boat on that one! But today I discovered a flaw causing great annoyance. I had to check if there were any new mails a couple of times and discovered I had to go to another Tap to do it. It isn’t much of a difference, but coming from Outlook 2003 at work and Outlook 2007 at home, it really tilted the balance of the rocking boat. But all of a sudden I realise, one of the selling points was the ability to customise the Ribbon in Office!

5 minutes later I had a Send/Receive all button on my Home tab. What constituted the annoyance was actually that the interface returned to the Home Tab when I had pressed Send/Receive, so if had to press it again (not being satisfied there weren’t any mails) I first had to switch Tabs.

Well it’s fixed now and the boat rocks on… hopefully…

The gut feeling?

Lasse Storgaard — Mon, 17 May 2010 13:39:06 +0000

I’m writing an article about knowledge retained in coorporations so I’m reading An overall view of knowledge management challenges for global business by Veli Denizhan Kalkan.

So I’m thinking: is the gut feeling the manifestation of the gap between your cognition and what you are able to express through your vocabulary?

Say hi to my Fridge and drop a little note!

Lasse Storgaard — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:59:02 +0000

Once upon a time I were actually an Opera user. It’s been a couple of years since then of course, but I still remember it was better to interpret valid XHTML and HTML. And the evil opponent IE which were defining the market standard. Now things have changed. IE 6 are being hunted down by pretty much any internet media society and the European Union have placed it’s large boot of a bill right i the ass of Microsoft and forced it to provide a browser choice in it’s operating system. Meanwhile IE 7 and 8s marketshare are being targeted by Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

Before the choice was between Opera and IE, later when Firefox came around, it unfortunately was a greater threat to Opera rather than IE and instead of providing a broad palette of browsers competing towards an open and free market. They pretty much ate each other.

The last year and a half have defined some specific competing measurement – in specific: speed! Firefox was always faster than IE, no doubt. But then came along Chrome, and WOW it just ate both of then. Then IE said they were faster again – but they really weren’t. Firefox had a rebound and were really fast. Then Chrome knocked back and forth.

A couple of days ago Opera 10.50 came around. And OMFG it’s really nasty fast. It’s the first time sine I switched to Chrome I consider switching to something else! But it’s just amazing! But the coolest thing isn’t actually just the speed. They’ve went to a different design, much like Chrome. But the coolest thing is actually Opera Unite. A build in application server bringing Software As a Service to a personal level where you host your own services right in your browser. They’ve been using the little one on the top of the body with this one I promise you.

Say hi to me on my fridge here (a little social application where you can leave notes to each other).

The address is: http://notebook.rubberd.operaunite.com/fridge/

A different perspective on Google Buzz

Lasse Storgaard — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:28:22 +0000

A lot of people have taken on an opinion on Google Buzz – so have I, but for most part, I don’t agree with anybody. Reports are running in, as you might have guessed, that Buzz is lame and no match to Twitter or Facebook. An argument that seems reasonable, but from my point of view it is not true. See the twitter opinion and Business Insider with a pre-review.

A couple of days ago, I had a class in Strategy and Performance Measurement. One of my classmates argued that Google lacked direction and didn’t have a uniform business strategy. If your point of view are the Mainstream Perception (MP) of Google, yes then it might seem like Google lacks a direction in strategy. The MP is something like “Hey look what we made” attitude towards new products and technology. What you should realize is that every new feature or function, such as Google Buzz, are an improvement on the Business Platform Google are building. The platform is known as Google Apps, as you might know already.

If you have tried Google Buzz, and didn’t like it – Then you should consider the business case:

Your company are using Google Apps. This means it is the primary fascilitator of communications. You are running an intranet on Google Sites, you are video chatting and instant messaging (IM) through Talk, sharing calenders, sharing documents and using their Office Application and E-mail client. Your e-mail are Pushed to your smartphone along with contacts and calendar updates and so forth. In between the E-mail and IM communication there is a gap. The E-mail are able to reach every one in your company but in a very formel and “slow” mannor. IM are fast, easy to use and not so formal but limited to a very small subset of the company. Buzz are just as Facebook and Twitter, an agile communicator with the ability to reach a crowd and still a be a Point to Point (P2P) communicator. The difference is, it is an integrated service. Which I think i very powerful!

Google Buzz might not be a revolution to personal users. But it is yet another screwdriver (not the drink) in the toolbox towards making Google Apps a VERY serious competitor to Microsofts company IT architecture.

Why do Google have this strategy?

Well because they are pretty good at predicting the future. Since more and more communications have moved from offline communication, to inhouse hosted services and later on to cloud services. Google are pointing in the direction that the future of company communication services are Cloud based and preferrely based on their services, rather than an expensive infrastructure from Microsoft.

Office online…?

Lasse Storgaard — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:45:58 +0000

Det er efterhånden et stykke tid siden at Google blæste til angreb på MSO (Microsoft Office) og efter det er der da også flere der er faldet for fristelsen af gratis licenser og en lækker cloud arkitektur. Microsoft er dog ikke dårlige til at lave forretning, således har de da også lagt mærke til denne trussel og lanceret Office Live – selvom det nok næppe er derfor MS har lanceret det.

Office Live er en løsning baseret på hvad der ligner Sharepoint. Selvfølgelig er det nedskaleret væsentligt i funktionalitet. Sådan ret praktisk er der der to udgaver:

En personlig (Standard Office udgaverne)
En til små virksomheder (Office Enterprise)

Det er muligt at invitere folk til at samarbejde med andre mennesker, så man kan have et lille digitalt arbejdsrum for ens fodboldklub, små projekter osv.

Hver bruger har gratis stillet 5 GB til rådighed fra MS og det er mere eller mindre integreret med Microsoft Office.

Jeg syntes i skulle kigge på det en gang: Office Live Workspace

Burndown + Gantt: the agile meets the waterfall

Lasse Storgaard — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:02:32 +0000

I’ve been researching for the projec tmanagement functionality of Sharepoint and products like it in the prospect of using it for our project at the university. During this research I came across Burndown charts in excel. I’ve often wished we had a tool like a Burndown chart available during our projects. Way to often there are a tremendous different in the perception of the remaining workload.

Well long story short – I decided to take inspiration in the charts and do one of my own. But not just one of my own! I would include our favourite project planning tool: The Gantt diagram. And it had to be dynamic integrated. So here it is: BurndownGantt

Of cource there are a great difference between the Burndown and Gantt. Burndown is meant for Agile projects and Gantt is the perception of good old fashioned Waterfall development. The combination is there for not complete functional, but I’ll let you decide on that. I intend to use it in my next project.

Fjernsynstricks

Lasse Storgaard — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:59:35 +0000

Er der nogen der kender problemet med DVB-T sende nettet der ødelægger DVB-C signalerne for en række kanaler? Det paradoksale er at vi købte et nyt fjernsyn for at Kaja kunne se NRK1, men med vores standard antennekabel som vi havde fra det gamle fjernsyn, kan vi ikke se DR1, DR2, DR Update, Discovery og lidt flere kanaler.
Hele problemet er den utrolig dårligt afskærmede antennekabel. Og hvad er løsningen på det? Jo den kan man afskærme med aluminiumsfolie. Et godt lag rundt om hele ledningen og godt dækkende fra stik til stik.
Desværre viste det sig at med denne fremgangsmåde er meget forskel på sende forholdene for det digitale sendenet, eller nok nærmere så var afskærmningen den lille ekstra marginal der talte. I hvertfald var afskærmningen om eftermiddagen i solskin god nok til at kunne modtage DR1, DR2 og DR Update stortset uden flakken i billedet. Senere på aftenen var DVB-T forholdene blevet bedre med et fint lag lavthængende skyer til at relektere signalerne, således at jeg måtte forsøge med et ekstra lag folie. Kanalerne fik jeg frem igen, men der var så meget flakken i billedet at det var umuligt at se.
Desværre ligger jeg ikke inde med ferritkerner til kabler, havde ellers godt kunne tænke mig at se effekten af sådan nogle.

Nå men den endelige løsning er at jeg har købt mig til et superafskærmet antennekabel hos AV-Cables.dk. Det er vidst en mere holdbar løsning også kan Kaja og jeg se vores nationale kanaler uden problemer

Dækningsvildledning af forbrugere

Lasse Storgaard — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:49:51 +0000

Jeg har 3 mistænkt for at lyve en smule om deres dækning. Mine forældre bor i et område som 3 kalder 3G. Det burde måske have kaldt den 3G 0 Mbit/s. Deres beskrivelse af dækningen som skulle være i området lyder som følgende:

I dette område kan du tale og sende og modtage sms og mms. Du kan også ringe via 0på3, besøge Planet 3, surfe på nettet med din 3Mobil, benytte Skype og Messenger og tjekke mail. Hvis du vil streame musik og video eller se 3Mobil-TV, kan du gøre det i lav kvalitet.

Og som jeg nok nærmere vil beskrive det:

Udfordringer med at holde en stabil forbindelse til sendemast og der ved udfordringer med at sende SMS og føre samtale. Surf på mobilen kræver tålmodighed, da telefonen ofte skal kalde op pga. tab af forbindelse. Skal du føre samtaler uden afbrydelser – find et træ at kravle op i eller se om du kan låne en fastnettelefon.

En simpel lille opskrift: Pepperoni og tomatsauce

Lasse Storgaard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:58:27 +0000

En meget meget simpel opskrift som havde en forbavsende god smag. Tager ca. 15. min at lave.

Ingredienser
En dåse hakkede tomater
Lidt pepperoni
Olie
Vineddike
Salt, Peber og Sukker
Pasta

Fremgangsmåde

Kog en gryde med din yndlingspasta i en passende mængde. Varm en gryde med lidt olie. Steg pepperonien i gryden og hæld olien fra alt efter hvad man syntes der er passende. Der er meget olie i pepperoni. Tilsæt tomat fra dåsen. Tilsæt nogle stink vineddike til gryden og balancer smagen med sukker. Tilsæt salt og peber efter behov. Kog saucen ind til en passende konsistens.

Efter saucen og pastaen er kogt hældes saucen over i pastaen.

Bon appettit

Spam på Facebook

Lasse Storgaard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:15:49 +0000

Ud over dem som naturligvis mener Facebook er skabt af Spam (red. sammenpresset og kogt svin på dåse, Wikipedia), så har Facebook endelig oplevet spam indtoget på deres platform. Det måtte jo komme, det var bare et spørgsmål om tid. Mit første møde med dette var flere venner der skrev nogle underlige status opdateringer med kinesiske adresser og løfter om let tjente penge. Men topmålet blev vidst nået da den præst der havde konfirmeret mig, sendte mig en spam meddelelse.

Spammerne har den her gang været meget opfindsomme og bruge personlige relationer til at få deres “reklame” ud i verden. Og det er da også smart at personificere budskaber. Men når det er ens præst der skriver at de har fundet en cool video med mig på Youtube falder det lidt til jorden. Tvivler lidt på den situation nogensinde skulle blive en realitet.

Rent teknisk ved jeg ikke hvordan de gør, men kunne forestille mig 2 scenarier. 1. Brugernavn og Password er blevet opsnappet. 2. Virus på computeren der kan batche det med FB’s autologin når brugeren ikke er tilstede. Jeg holder lidt mere på den første. Så tror næsten Facebook skulle indføre en lidt mere offensiv password politik.