11 May, 2009

How to remove Acrobat from Outlook

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 9:00

I’ve been very frustrated trying to disable Acrobat’s Outlook plugin (toolbars, additional menu) and since google found no solution I’m posting what worked for me.

  1. Find the location of your PDFMOutlook.dll library. This will be presumably “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\”.
  2. Unregister the DLL from the system–run the following command:

    regsvr32 /u "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\
    PDFMaker\Mail\Outlook\PDFMOutlook.dll"

  3. Rename the file to “PDFMOutlook.dll.old” for instance
  4. Restart your now clean Outlook.

Keywords: howto, how to, disable, remove, uninstall, get rid of, disable, PDFMaker, Acrobat, Adobe, Outlook 2003, toolbar, PDFMOutlook.dll

24 February, 2009

YouTube Video Size

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 12:53


Adobe Media Encoder has a preset for YouTube which encodes to the typical and should I say traditional 320 x 240 pixels. YouTube has since moved into the “HD” category (no, nothing like Vimeo just yet) and supports a bit higher quality uploads. Uploads are limited to 10 minutes, file size limit is not set. H.264 MP4 is a good codec format to use (x.264 will do), but others are just as well supported.

And now for the promised ideal dimensions (as of today) and according to my testing:

640 x 360 px

Keywords: resolution, size, pixels, dimensions, width, height, youtube, upload, optimal, ideal, encode, encoded, best, how-to, how to, hd, 720, 720p

7 January, 2008

Gmail tip: voicemail search

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 11:23

Gmail reserves some words e.g. “voicemail”, which cannot be used to name users’ custom labels. They actually may internally use these labels to indentify such emails, because searching for “label:voicemail” will, in fact, list all emails that contain a voicemail.

Keywords: voicemail, gmail, tags, label, labels, reserved, allowed, name, naming, search, searching, attachment

Gmail tip: voicemail search

15 November, 2007

Contacts and thumbnails dimensions in Nokia E61

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 16:22



Contacts and thumbnails dimensions

Originally uploaded by meny.

Just thought I’d share my accidental finding out of a few image dimensions in my E61 (haven’t found any information on this on the net, yet). Notice that all image thumbnails in the cache found in the device use either 54×54 or 47×40 pixels.

keywords: E61, E61i, contacts, gallery, thumbnails, resolution, image, size, pixels, number, symbian, s60, s60 3rd, 9.1

31 January, 2007

Linn Records

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 13:52

Surely I’m a big fan of iTunes and was among the first to support it by purchases. As an audiophile I’m not buying everything there, since it does use compression after all and it does have DRM applied.

Check out Linn Records. They offer lossless and DRM free music. I’ll be returning there frequently it seems. :)

6 December, 2006

The Laws of Simplicity

Filed under: Design, Uncategorized — Roman @ 13:05

My favorite one:

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious,
and adding the meaningful.

from The Laws of Simplicity » Blog Archive » Law 10: The One

7 September, 2006

Nokia E61 dust problem

Filed under: Hardware, Uncategorized — Roman @ 19:02

nokia e61 dust problemMulti-billion dollar company creates their ‘blackberry killer’, Nokia E61 business phone/PDA hybrid. It builds upon decades of EPOC/Symbian OS development and probably many millions of R&D on this particular model. Yet the phone started collecting dust particles under the screen in merely a week’s time of business (carrying in the suite pocket) use. Infuriating!

E61 is a potential bear in today’s fast expanding mobile market. Calling a product of this potential ‘E61′ throws me off the chair for a start. How about calling iPod something like “Apple Xi-M145″?

Nokia is not your backyard garage, where a group of geeks are hacking for fun. It’s rather a mammoth with over 60,000 employees reaching EUR 9 813 million in net sales just in the last quarter (EUR 1 140 million net profit). There have to be a few dollars left to create a dust-resistant screen?!?

–end of rant–

Nokia’s vision, Nokia as a company.

Some interesting links for E61 owners among you:
e-series.org blog
e61addicted.de
nokme.com
s60.com
Roman Keller’s themes

22 August, 2006

Mac Pro

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 8:48

Mmmm… Anyone willing to sponsor a new “powermac”? :)

Mac Pro config

2 August, 2006

InDesign misbehaving

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 16:29

Unpleasant when under time pressure and deadlines hours away one has to deal with messages like this one. :( Otherwise, InDesign is just lovely! :)

InDesign crash

Staying competitive in design with just 1GB of RAM on board, and a 32MB graphics card can get difficult at times.

Memory low task manager

9 July, 2006

Kona Cinder Cone

Filed under: Uncategorized — Roman @ 19:05

Kona always had a special place in my heart. Cr-Mo is no longer used, but what the heck. Joe Murray is with Voodoo I hear. Below are some specs of the Cinder Cone, my favorite ever! :)

Kona Cinder Cone

Frame tubing Kona 7005 Aluminum Butted All Mountain
Fork Marzocchi MZ-3  100mm
Headset Aheadset STS
Crankarms TruVativ FiveD
Chainrings 44/32/22
B/B TruVativ Square LE
Pedals Wellgo LU-A9 w/clips & straps
Chain Shimano HG53
Freewheel Shimano Deore CS-HG50 11-32 9 speed
F/D, R/D Shimano Deore
Shifters Shimano Deore
Handlebar Kona Aluminum Riser
Stem Kona Control
Grips Kona Mooseknuckle
Brakes Hayes Sole Hydraulic
Brake Levers Hayes Sole
Front hub KK Disc
Rear hub Shimano FH-M475 disc
Tires Nokian NBT 26 x 2.1
Rims Sun Black Eye
Saddle WTB Pure V Sport
Seatpost Kona Thumb
Seat clamp Kona QR

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