Tag Archives: Apple

Microsoft OneNote available for iPad

Posted by on December 18, 2011 No comments

Last week, Microsoft released the OneNote app for iPad in the app store. It is the first version of the app, and still lacks some functionality I would like to see added, but it is a great first step. These are the things you should know:

  • the app is free, but is limited to 500 notes; if you want more, you can unlock this limitation with an 11,99 EUR in-app purchase. I consider myself a heavy OneNote user, and I am currently at 320 pages. So with some management, you can stay under the limit.
  • Notes are synced with Windows Live Skydrive, so you will need a Windows Live ID to use the app. Advantage is that you have an online backup of your notes, and you can even edit them on Skydrive in the web app.
  • If you use formatting extensively in OneNote, you will be disapponted that a lot of these features are not supported in the iPad app. You get plain text. There is some room for improvement here.
  • Written notes (ink on a tablet pc) are not visible in the iPad app. Sometimes the app crashes on pages that contain a lot of written notes.

There is also an iPhone version of the application. And if you are thinking about converting your entire Evernote archive to OneNote, my colleague Frank pointed us to a conversion tool. Although you might want to wait with that until the 2.0 version of the OneNote app is released…

 

Connecting Facebook chat and MSN to iChat

Posted by on December 17, 2011 No comments

iChat is a nice instant messaging client, and I recently discovered it can be used to connect to other IM networks like Windows Live Messenger or Facebook chat.

Facebook chat

Follow this procedure:

  • in iChat, go to Preferences, Accounts
  • add a new account
  • select Jabber as account type
  • as account name: type <your facebook username>@chat.facebook.com
  • in the advanced section, enter chat.facebook.com as the server name
  • set 5222 as the port number

If you don’t know your Facebook username, open the General Account Settings in your Facebook profile, or check the Facebook Help Center.

Windows Live Messenger (MSN)

To connect with your MSN contacts, you will need to install the Cocoon plugin. Caution, this only works on Lion and is still in beta.

Once you have installed it, there will be an extra account type called MSN, where you can configure your MSN username and password.


Tax-on-web and Firefox 4

Posted by on May 15, 2011 4 comments

If you are trying to use the Belgian Tax-on-web application with Firefox 4, you might get an error message ssl_error_renegotiation_not_allowed when you try to log in with your Belgian eID.

This seems to be caused by a change in Firefox 4 regarding SSL authentication (more info on: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security:Renegotiation).

It can be fixed by changing a preference in Firefox. Follow these steps:

  • Open Firefox
  • In the address bar, type about:config and press Enter
  • Confirm the security warning
  • Scroll down until you see security.ssl.allow_unrestricted_renego_everywhere__temporarily_available_pref
  • Double-click this line to set the preference to TRUE

Watch a brief demonstration of this procedure.

This should solve your issue. Changing this preference is a security risk, so it is a good idea to repeat the procedure and set the preference to FALSE once you are done with Taxonweb. Or you can add the URL of the sites to the preference security.ssl.renego_unrestricted_hosts to set this option for a specific site.

Don’t forget to check the Taxonweb configuration guide for Firefox if you encounter other issues.

Dux about SharePoint 2010 on the iPad

Posted by on August 1, 2010 No comments

Dux Raymond Sy made a nice overview video about how SharePoint 2010 displays on an Apple iPad.

SharePoint 2010 on an iPad from Dux Raymond Sy on Vimeo.

Visiting the Apple Store in Raleigh

Posted by on October 14, 2008 No comments