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From desktop to phone | June 28, 2004

I came across this nifty little tool provided by Swisscom the other day. If you have a mobile account with them this Outlook extension will allow you to send SMS's and automatic appointment reminders to any phone straight from your desktop. The software is free - the service is conveniently charged to your monthly bill :-)

Posted at 12:09 PM CET

Lean and Mean: Acrobat Reader | June 17, 2004

This little hack has been out there for a while now, but I thought I'd post it here just to keep a note. Adobe Acrobat Reader - and especially version 6 - takes an enormous amount of time to load. You can trim the startup time down to a couple of seconds by simply not having all the superfluous plug-ins (most of them are useless anyway) loaded at startup. To achieve this, simply move everything except EWH32.api, EScript.api, weblink.api and search.api in the .\plug_ins directory to the .\Optional directory. Enjoy!

Posted at 01:55 PM CET