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If you got Opera and Visio Viewer like me, you may experience that, it doesn’t work.

Microsoft descripes it this way:

“Internet Explorer will load the Visio Viewer, which then renders the drawing in the browser window.”

Situation on my side: Instead of IE opening and displaying the file, Opera opens, downloads it and when you click to open it it will download it again and this endless.

If you try to open it from IE7 X64, Opera will start and the same game happens again.

The problem is, that the preset for the Visio file extension is wrong.

So delete the old one for .VSD (setupped as Internet Explorer streaming object) and add a new one with this attributes:

MIME Type: image/x-ieexplore FILE EXTENSION: .vsd
OPEN WITH other application: “C:Program Files (x86)Internet Exploreriexplore.exe”
PASS WEB ADDRESS directly to application

You can and should add the the other file extensions, too!

Tested on:

-Windows Vista X64 Ultimate SB
-Internet Explorer 7 X64 and X86
–Opera 9.22 Build 8801.
-Default browser: Opera
–Visio Viewer 2003.

Technorati Tags: Windows, X64, 64bit, Opera, 9.22, Visio, Viewer, IE7, Visio Viewer
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Opera released Opera 9.22 final today including a lot of security fixes, improvements in speed and stability and more!

Info, download, changelog and yadda-yadda at Opera Desktop Team Blog.

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Recently Opera Watch did an interesting interview with the person that is responsible for Opera’s email client M2 – Arjan van Leeuwen.

Here are my wishes for M2:

1) Please allow me to export and import M2 mails without the bugs and improve displaying also (random bugs like no format at display or double subject lines or to/from field, both at import and dsplay emails).

2) I have some emails in which from and to headers need switched orders (was a backup thing when I had problems with my PC).
I imported them but from should be to and to should be from.

3) Additionally for 2) , I want that I an move sent to inbox and vice versa easily.

4) Please fix the email display bug if from field or to field is formatted and gets messed up like

“”My Name”<phpbt”@blahblah.blaj&#62

It confuses Opera.

5) Sometimes emails are not displayed in Contacts view.

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Since 2 days, ICQ 6 features a Multiplayer Xtraz Games buttons in its message window!
Initially, it featured all the Multiplayer Games we know and love from ICQ 5.1.

However, the fact that you couldn’t connect to Pool properly and once you connected, it wouldn’t display the balls on the table probably forced them to remove them again. (i.e. Pool and all the others based on the same technology).

However, RPS, Warsheep, Zoopaloola and Slide-A-Lama are there and ready to play on just 2 clicks! 🙂

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The ICQ Team recently released the new version of their Knowledge Base, updated for ICQ 6. Unfortnately it also features major error. Like this one spotted here:

They write here that IE7 is not supported which is wrong, because IE7 is shipped with Vista and is delivered by Windows Update for Windows XP SP2, too, so of course it is supported.

Other errors I spotted:

Here, it links to an old list based on the old homepage layout from ages ago.

Also some articles of the Knowldge Base still refer to Xtraz of ICQ 5.1 that never made their way into ICQ 6.

Technorati Tags: ICQ, help, knowledge base, ICQ6
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I have tried something that seemed impossible at first (since Apple does seem to be narrow about contact email addresses or forms for people who are not customers of Apple).

Anyway, I succeeded and asked some questions regarding the iPhone launch in Germany. Here is the reply from Apple coming from a place called “iTunes Store”:

“Dear valued customer.

Apple is not making any statements regarding rumours, software or promotions. In order to protect our customers, Apple abstrains from any kind of statement.
We do not want that our customers are making decisions based on such inaccurate or wrong information. Apple’s opinion is, that in this way all customers are taken cared at best.

Sincerely yours,
iTunes Customer Support
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww/

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I have just received the following email:

”
the popular ICQ archive and download database has moved. You can find us at www.imdlc.com from now on.

IMDLC is short for Instant Messenger Download Center which means that you will soon be able to find downloads and skins for other IM programs too.

You are invited to join us at IMDLC and contribute by uploading your favorite messenger enhancements.

Regards,
The IMDLC.com Team.

http://www.imdlc.com
http://www.imdlc.com/mos/Forums”

Which is probably a result of the fact that they have lost motivation to keep the newssite up really as according to them most ICQ news are not blog worthy anymore. I am sorry for that and I highly disagree with that opinion.

Well, I guess that’s already it.

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The ICQ Team released a New ICQ 6 Build#5391 with new bugs like e.g. clear type support is broken so if you have a TFT it will make the text font to look a lot of blocky.

Also Getright 4 gets confused by it and breaks ICQ 6 as it downloads the xtraz locally when IE monitoring and download link catch is enabled.

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When I was about to post a post, I stumbled over the successor of Blogger In Beta Blogger just started; Blogger in Draft and they even had a “tell us your opinion” link on the Blogger Dashboard!

So I took my chance and wrote my opinion about the way they do not care about bugs being reported!

Let’s see whether they will bother to reply with a statement this time

Never give up the hope?

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UPDATE: I was notified that Google shut down its blog search engine of course. There are new ways which you can find out more about this here, e.g.: https://blogging.im/findblogs

According to Blogger Search I am human spyware? 😀

Infact I have just done the following search:

(After I did maybe 3-5 others) and suddenly I have reeived this weird warning:

That’s as fun as the Barracuda Spam Firewall blocking your ordinary inquiry emails sent to companies using this firewall system.

Tired of false positives? I sure am!

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