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April 2007 - Posts

• Gmail does not care about dots in your email name

  While looking at a spam message I received on my Gmail account, I noticed the "to" field was missing a dot in my email name, with the notice "(Yes, this is you. Learn more )" right beside it. "Because Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within Read More... Posted Sunday, April 22, 2007 4:00 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• OpenDNS - For the better and the worse

  Just caught an unusual behavior with the OpenDNS name resolution. I tried to launch Desktop Tower Defense (yes, I'm still addicted, I could not let go just yet). OpenDNS told me www.handdrawngames.com wasn't reachable. After refreshing the cache, the Read More... Posted Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:53 AM by slimcode | 4 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• slimKEYS Screencasts - A beginning

  I've decided to try screencasting slimKEYS in action to give potential users a glimpse of what you can do with slimKEYS. My first tentative with screencasts concentrates on the slimSIZE plug-in. If you can get around my strange French "tawlking", I think Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:34 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• A Bill of Rights for Micro-ISVs - or how not to get it!

  I stumbled upon this requiem for 7 rights micro-ISVs should grant themselves . Oh boy is this kind of ISV attitude light years away from me. I'm fine with you if you want to create the software of your dreams, but don't call that a business. Here's his Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 6:22 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• L'impuissance

  Non, je ne parle pas de celle qui survient entre les deux jambes. Je parle de celle qui arrive entre les deux oreilles, et surtout au fond du coeur, lorsqu'on ne peut agir face à un événement qui se prépare. Hier soir, je regardais les logs de slimcode.com Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:32 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: Français, Non-technical

• Another plug-in beta version

  But this time, it's a new version of an existing plug-in: slimSEARCH. I have added support for more than 3 search targets, and support for prefixes to the search string to select a search target. Here's what you could see when pressing a slimSEARCH hotkey: Read More... Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 9:46 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Technical

• Thank you!

  Today, I'd like to thank all of you who downloaded and registered slimKEYS. I've been extremely lucky to get more than 41000 registrations since January. Though more than 65% chose to "buy" slimKEYS for 0$, the remaining 35% have paid more than 11$ on Read More... Posted Sunday, April 01, 2007 7:05 PM by slimcode | 1 Comments Filed under: English, Technical