September 2008 - Posts
We all know the “Get a Mac” videos from Apple. And to be honest, they’re pretty funny sometimes. Most of the time… ;) After a horrible start with the Seinfeld commercials (no offence Jerry), Microsoft might be on to something with their new campain “I’m a PC” (Seinfeld commercials to be found there, too).
They got an actor that looks like the PC guy in the Get a Mac commercials and used him to introduce some new videos, telling us how many different kind of PC’s there are. And it wouldn’t be Microsoft if they didn’t put in some celebrities like Eva Longoria, Pharrell Williams, Deepak Chopra and of course bill's there too. There’s (always) room for improvement, but they’ve made the first (big) steps.
”I’m a PC, and I’ve been made into a stereotype…”
Edit
Both the Microsoft PressPass and the Youtube video can't be embedded over here. So have a look over here:
http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/SilverlightApps/videoplayer_3/standalone.aspx?xml=mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/presspass/PRIDE60_MBR.wmv&r=email&id=1&layout=top
Or paste this link in Windows Media Player or iTunes to open the movie:
mms://msstudios.wmod.llnwd.net/a2294/o21/presspass/PRIDE60_MBR.wmv
We developed an ASP.NET page (A) to be wrapped in an existing PHP page (B) using an inline wrapper. After a few days in which both pages displayed nicely, our page (A) suddenly got displayed twice inside the existing page (B). And even weirder was that the postbacks of the first occurrence didn’t work, and the postbacks of the second were executed outside of the wrapper.
We had changed some stuff the night before, so I finally checked the file line by line against an earlier version. The problem we eventually found was small and not too easy to find. But so easy to solve… Because of an external editor, the page’s (A) header had received an ID, probably because of the runat=”server” tag. Removing the ID tag was enough to have both pages working fine again.
I installed iTunes 8 on our laptop, and connected an iPod to check if all worked accordingly. The iTunes was installed in Dutch, so the displayed information was also. Apparently, when you're Dutch, you get some extra capacity on your iPod, free of charge!
iTunes displayed the free space on the iPod as being 'Gratis', the Dutch word for when you don't have to pay for stuff. Because free in English means both 'not occupied' and 'for free', the wrong one seems to have been translated into Dutch here...