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• What files?

  I wanted to upgrade my SmartFTP 2.5 to version 3.0 to overcome many crashes I get on Vista. Not only did the setup told me my maintenance was expired and had to renew it in order to use the upgrade, it told me the following applications were using files Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 10, 2008 3:15 PM by slimcode | 1 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Someone copied my company's logo!

  This morning, my Google alerts pointed me to this page , a Russian web site talking about a product called SLIMCODE. Google Translate tells me it's a box of capsules for a weight loss program. I'm fine with that. It's normal, on this planet, to have some Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 12:17 AM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• MSDN Coding Awards - Vote now!

  My very good friend Pascal Bourque is one of the lucky 5 nominees for the MSDN Canada Code Awards 2008 , for his key role in the creation of the Xceed DataGrid for WPF . I often compare Pascal's technical skills with Scott Guthrie , who I happen to admire Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:17 PM by slimcode | 1 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Reading signals

  I just did something really stupid. I don't know where my mind was. I have to say I'm loaded with work because I accepted two contracts, and I'm a part-time daddy at home since my son is only attending kindergarten 3 mornings a week. I even had to postpone Read More... Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 2:51 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• help.live.com tells me to check my Internet connection

  I'm beta testing Windows Live OneCare 2, and this morning, the automatic update failed, with a message redirecting me to this web page: Hello? Who's telling me this? A web page!!! If you decide to move your help and documentation online, at least tell Read More... Posted Sunday, October 28, 2007 3:59 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Ode to FileForum from BetaNews

  A few weeks ago, for the release of slimKEYS version 1.1.0 (which quickly became v1.1.1 ), I decided to try submit-everywhere.com , to see if it could drive some more traffic. Before submitting, you must provide your existing download site credentials, Read More... Posted Saturday, October 13, 2007 4:46 PM by slimcode | 1 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Submitting a crash ticket crashes the system!

  While submitting a ticket to Roxio about a crash I can reproduce with Easy Media Creator 10 and its MyDVD component, bad luck continued to hit: Do you think I should open a ticket about this? q;-) Tags: Roxio , Support Read More... Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 4:00 AM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Strange Yahoo! search results

  Something very strange just happened to me while searching on Yahoo!. First, a prelude: Half an hour ago, while performing a search on Yahoo!, I got an empty result, with a message telling me there was a problem, and that I should retry. I did not capture Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:36 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Giving Opera a real chance

  I've been a FireFox user since version 0.8 or something. What drove me to FireFox was add-ins. The huge amount of tools I could add was calling me, and the tabbed interface was for me a great advance. It wasn't speed. Back then, browsers were fast enough, Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:55 PM by slimcode | 3 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• The reign of the mouse

  I got a strange problem with my desktop computer today, while returning from hibernation. Though the following hotfix did solve a problem ( thanks Scott ) where my computer coming out from hibernation returned to hibernation when left idle for a minute, Read More... Posted Friday, August 17, 2007 3:22 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Try again later

  I used to sync my Dell DJ within Windows XP, but since I rarely boot in XP anymore, I decided to sync it in Vista. So I booted in XP, opened Windows Media Player, and cancelled the "partnership" with my Dell DJ. Then I tried rebooting in Vista, but the Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 3:07 AM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• Dear Dell,

  I'd like you to know that I LIVE IN QUEBEC!!! So stop sending me contest offers if you're too cheap to obey the RACJ rules and very small fee. Eligibility: No Purchase Necessary. Dell Canada’s “Believe In Your Business” contest (the “Contest”) is open Read More... Posted Saturday, August 04, 2007 12:53 AM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• How badly do you depend on an Internet connection?

  At a very inappropriate time, I've been out of an Internet connection for more than 48 hours now. Only this morning have I had the time to search for a spare phone cord, plug my computer's commuted modem, call my Internet provider (one more time) to get Read More... Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 2:48 PM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• The birth of Polkapps

  My friend and ex-colleague Pascal Bourque is jumping more seriously into his TuneSleeve adventure. He just launched Polkapps , the company name under which the support and development of TuneSleeve will continue and improve. This is doubly a very good Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2007 5:52 AM by slimcode | 0 Comments Filed under: English, Non-technical

• 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