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Thanks Adobe!

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

I want to thank Adobe for their gift. What gift? Adobe offered a FREE Thawte developer security certificate to the first 135 or so developers that contributed to their AIR marketplace. And yes, CreOFF is one of the lucky ones.
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Adobe launches acrobat.com

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Acrobat.com

Adobe has recently launched Acrobat.com - a collection of some online collaboration services that will allow you to upload files to share with others, convert files to PDF online, Buzzwords for creating and reviewing documents together and Adobe ConnectNow for holding full-fledged online web conferences with up to three people.

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Vista Automatic Update stage 3 of 3 endless reboot loop

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Vista Update

This evening I had the pleasure of spending precious (over)time on reclaiming my laptop from Microsoft instead of using it for some serious work. Yes, I might have been foolish in trusting Microsoft and leaving automatic updates ON because now I noticed what results this can have.

For those who didn’t experience this Vista update bug (yet): you probably have seen messages like “don’t turn off or unplug your pc. Windows is perfoming updates” when you shut down Windows. Well, this one appears at startup and it keeps restarting with the message “Configuring updates: Stage 3 of 3 - 0% complete. Do not turn off your computer”.
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