Opera 9.21 is out with native WMP11 Firefox plugin support for Windows Vista!

Opera 9.21 is out and can be downloaded!

It has – according to the changelog now official native support for the Windows media player 11 NP (Netscape/Firefox plugin for Windows Vista/XP).

However, it’s a bit tricky to install as the installer doesn’t let you choose to which plugin directory you want to install the plugin. So you have to install Firefox 32bit first and then remove the old WMP9 plugin hack (if used) and install Firefox, then install the WMP11 Firefox plugin and then copy the file “np-mswmp.dll” out of the Firefox plugin folder into your Opera plugin folder.

After that you can uninstall the Firefox browser.

If you did it correct, the plugin’s “about” window will say version 11!

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Up to French anybody?

Are you up to French?

Well, I have told many of my online contacts that I have got a Nabaztag/tag and that they can send emails to my rabbit at nafcom[at]nabaztag.com, however you need to register a free NabazTag account for that.

If you try however to send a message to my rabbit from an email address that is not attached to a Nabaztag account, you will receive a message telling you that you need to do that and it’s telling you that IN FRENCH.

Now, none of my contacts does know French!

Here is what it sends:

Nous n’avons pas pu envoyer votre message !
Le message que vous avez envoyΓ© par e-mail n’a pas Γ©tΓ© envoyΓ© Γ  son destinataire.
Pourquoi ?
Vous n’avez pas encore de compte sur www.nabaztag.com. CrΓ©ez-en un, c’est simple et gratuit! Cliquez ici pour crΓ©er un compte.

And here is what it should say in an English/French multilingual or English-only email (I guess the first suggestion is the best):

We could not send your message! The message that you sent by e-mail was not sent to its recipient. Why? You do not have an account yet on www.nabaztag.com. Create one, it is simple and free! Click here to create an account.

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I don’t have anything against French or so, but it will be hard to teach everybody French just so that they can understand this email!

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Got a light gun!

Who doesn’t remember the old movies from the 80’s showing kids playing arcade game machines with light guns attached? (Especially Back To The Future 2. So now I have got one, the Magnunm Light Phaser.

I have to admit it’s quite fun to use and play with even if I didn’t do that too much yet as it just arrived today! πŸ™‚

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Skype CallerID is available!

Yep, ladies and gentleman! Skype finally got caller IDs! (source: Share Skype Blog.

Unfortunately it’s not available for all countries, but only some which also have SkypeIn. Currently, the following countries have Caller IDs:

“you can use your SkypeIn number as SkypeOut caller ID if the number is from UK, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, Hong Kong, Estonia and Poland”

. More at above’s source link!

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Finally, I have got a pet!

Finally, I have got myself some hands on a pet, finally, Nafcom is a pet owner.

It welcomed me with the words on paper: “You Have Adopted A Rabbit. A New Life Begins !”

Oh yeah?

Yeah!
It’s a quite unique rabbit and it can do more than what it looks like! It’s pretty powerful! (and looking very kitschy, I have to admit).

He has even got an own Wikipedia entry πŸ™‚
(Their external links are also available in English)

Only downside yet: I am still waiting for the WLAN USB card.

Thanks to NabazTag Support and the mail trader DigiTrends! for all the pre-sales support and making things easy for me!

One of my best experiences so far!

On the sidepanel, I will add a new category for the rabbit, so watch out for future posts regarding it! πŸ™‚

The Skype Blog has a new demo video and entry showing it in action! πŸ™‚ It can do a lot more of course, too! πŸ™‚

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Think before you post!

I found an interesting video today. It’s about the fact that everything you write online is saved and cached forever in huge internet archives like e.g. at The WayBack Machine!

So: Think before you post!

It’s the version about the hacked HD-DVD code.

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Good bye SPH101, welcome F1PP000GN-SK!

R.I.P my dear SPH101, which died a scary death of hardware failure and the unsuccessful try to recover it re-applying the firmware. (Which caused the phone to not boot up anymore after switching it on again).

Luckily, Amazon took it back without a hassle (thanks!) and transfered my money back.
For this I bought the Belkin Skype wi-fi phone which hears on the gay name “F1PP000GN-SK“!

It is almost the same hardware like the WSKP100 from SMC except one supports Boingo and the other one Fon.

At least my Belkin one seems to have still the echo issue a bit (but I am working on that with Belkin support now which seems to be very skilled and friendly and helpful (at least the one from Germany!).

But even then I still can use a headset with it! Many asked which headset it supports! The one suppported is Sennheiser MM30.

So the SPH101 category is dead now! Long life to the F1PP000GN-SK one! πŸ™‚

Sennheiser started to officially support Skype phones so they will be put into their selector they have told me on Skype just 10 mins ago

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What’s up with this crappy blog?

“What’s up with this crappy blog?”, may ask one or another regular reader of my blog, seeling among “Contributors” Mr. Dew. No, we are not siblings or so =)
He just offered me to pimp my blog’s template.

I would say we are some kind of blogging pals or so. It turns out I am the commenter number one on his blog and he comments the most on mine, too.
Actually, I hope that after his military service we will speak a bit more by IM again.

Anyways, if you find the blog looks strange at times, it’s not my fault this time! =)

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RealTek driver problems solved!

Yesterday, I spent 2 hours getting the RealTek drivers updated and to work and I have fixed all the issues, except the one connected with Skype video.

I was confronted with tons of error messages while uninstalling the old drivers and reinstalling the new drivers but in the end I have figured it out!

Now even the RealTek Sound Manager (also can be found as Control Panel plugin) doesn’t crash anymore. I had to figure also out, that the drivers from Windows Update which Vista downloaded and installed automatically were from 2005!

UPDATE: The realtek audio driver will help you to solve your problems related to the realtek driver. The realtek audio driver will help you if you have any kind of problems like corrupted or missing files.

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