Printing shrink in IE7 and IE8

Some of my users facing the font shrink-ed when they tried to print the web page with Internet Explorer (IE) version 7 or 8.

To solve this case, if you are using version 8, make sure the option Shrink to Fit option in Page Setup menu, in your IE, is unchecked.

If you are using Internet Explorer version 7, you need to add the Registry Key by doing the steps below:
On the command prompt, type the following statement:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_STF_Scale_Min" /v iexplorer.exe /t REG_DWORD /d 100 /f

Click OK to confirm when warning window is showed.

Or, download this file, unzip the file, then run the file inside.

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How to create Sparkline GraphMicrosoft Excel 2010

One new feature in Microsoft Office Excel 2010 is Sparklines. 

 

Sparklines is a graph display of the collection of data in Microsoft Office Excel, but displayed only in one cell. 

 

There are 3 types Sparklines: Line, Column and Win / Loss. 

 

To make it, you are required to have a set of data, just as if you want to create an other graph. Click on the Insert ribbon menu, and select the desired type sparkline. And as usual, you are prompted to set the data that you show with this sparkline graph, and finally determine the cell where you want to display these sparkline.

 

Especially for type Win / Loss, sparkline this type is used if you have a set of data in which there is a negative number. 

 

And as usual, you sparkline graph can be modified in appearance, ranging from about the color until the value to be displayed.

 

 

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How to activate Microsoft Office Trial Version which bundled with Toshiba Notebook

When you buy a new Toshiba notebook, usually you will be given within Microsoft Office applications. By default, the application can only run for 60 days since it was first used, and even then you have to do the activation online, if not you can only use as much as 25 times.

How do I activate Microsoft Office applications are to be used for 60 days for free?

First of all, you need an internet connection, because this activation process requires an Internet connection directly into Microsoft's network of sites.

After you ensure that your notebook is connected to the Internet, you must run the registration application is Microsoft office, by clicking the icon on the desktop of your notebook. Follow all these steps, and at the end of the process, you will be informed 25 number keys for subsequent activation process. Keep these numbers carefully.

Finally you will be prompted to enter a 25 digit keys to activate the Microsoft Office

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Rumor: Microsoft will buy Adobe

Adobe Systems Inc. stock price on Thursday (10/07/2010) New York time listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange, had jumped 17 percent to 30 dollars per share before closing at 28.69 dollars per share. Speculation that Microsoft may acquire Adobe's stock price surge triggers the software maker (software) this.

Earlier, The New York Times reported that privately, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been met with Adobe CEO Narayen Chantanu at Adobe offices in San Francisco recently.

Reportedly, the two talk about the dominance of Apple Inc. in the mobile phone industry and various options to deal with it. According to several employees and consultants involved in the discussion, one of the options they are talking about is the possibility of Microsoft acquiring Adobe.

If it does occur, by referring to Adobe's stock price in the market today, the acquisition price could reach about 15 billion U.S. dollars. This action also will be one of Microsoft's most aggressive step to master the Internet and mobile media markets platform.

With the acquisition of Adobe, Microsoft will master the Flash Player software that is very popular. Now, software has become one of the software required a website to display video and pictures.

Analysts on Wall Street rate, the news of this acquisition makes perfect sense. Because, in this way, Microsoft can integrate graphics and video capabilities in software application Adobe mobile phone or tablet computer product. In this way, the possibility of Microsoft has the opportunity to be able to offset the dominance of Apple's iPhone and iPad fib.

Not too surprising as well if Adobe accept Microsoft's proposal. Because, during Apple CEO Steve Jobs is always criticizing the quality of Flash Player. In fact, he did not recommend that software developers use Flash on the iPhone and iPad.

"Very possibly. It could be a case of so-called enemy of my enemy is my friend. Microsoft and Adobe have a common enemy," said Toan Tran, Morningstar analyst, told Reuters.

However, until now, the good management of both Microsoft and Adobe is not willing to comment on this news.

Notes only, in fact, Microsoft already has a media player on a web platform called Silverlight that compete directly with Flash. However, this product is not too successful with users.

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Creating Outlook Calendar Appointment with Powerbuilder

Microsoft Outlook is a popular Personal Information Management application. It is part of Microsoft Office package, which many users use it. Fortunately, Microsoft, as the maker Microsoft Outlook, has prepared the SDK to allows programmers to create their own applications that can interact seamlessly into the application Microsoft Outlook

One of the Outlook's feature is Calendar which it make possible to user to create their own schedule and will remind for it. It's very useful for people who has many schedules in their life.

In this part of session, I will try to explain how to insert or create a new appointment in outlook, programmatically, with Powerbuilder. One thing you should learn and know is Outlook Object Model, which you can find at Microsoft's MSDN site. 


Microsoft has prepared the AppointmentItem Class which has many properties, to create a new Appointment Object in Microsoft Outlook Calendar. Some properties that are commonly used for the calendar class are: Subject, Start, Duration, and Reminder.


First, you (or PC clients) must has Microsoft Outlook installed. Then at the script, you must declare OleObject variable type, than try to create the object and connect to Microsoft Outlook Object. In this example, I'm using Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Powerbuilder 6.5. Here's the full script to create a new Appointment Object:

// declare OleObject variable and Constant Variable

oleobject oleOutlook
oleobject oleAppt
Constant Integer olAppointmentItem = 1

// create the Object
oleOutlook = create oleobject

// Connect To the Outlook Object
oleOutlook.ConnectToNewObject ('Outlook.Application')

// Create the Appointment Object
oleAppt = oleOutlook.CreateItem (olAppointmentItem)

// Set some common properties of Appointment Object
oleAppt.Location = "Home"
oleAppt.Subject = "Watch Fulham vs Manchester United Live"
oleAppt.Start = "08/21/2010 19:00"
oleAppt.ReminderMinutesBeforeStart = 1  // in minute
oleAppt.Duration = 120 // in minute
oleAppt.Body = "Go MU !!! Go !!!"

// Save the Appointment
oleAppt.Save


And here the result of the example:

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Microsoft Agent programming with Powerbuilder

According of wikipedia site, Microsoft Agent is a technology developed by Microsoft which employs animated characters, text-to-speech engines, and speech recognition software to enhance interaction with computer users. Thus it is an example of an embodied agent. It comes preinstalled as part of Microsoft Windows 2000 through Windows Vista (it is not part of Windows 7). Microsoft Agent functionality is exposed as an ActiveX control that can be used by web pages.

Before you can use the Agent in Powerbuilder, you need to download Microsoft Agent from Microsoft Agent site and install it into your computer. There 2 cores that you must download, one is Microsoft Agent core component, and the other is the Agent Character, which have 4 characters officially from Microsoft.

In this sample, I use Peedy, a green talking bird as a character

The next step is try to insert OLE Object at Powerbuilder's windows object. Choose the Microsoft Agent 2.0 from the Insert Control Tab.

Add Microsoft Agent Control 2.0 from the list

Agent OLE Object after inserted

In the Open event of window w_agent, type this script below:

//  set the agent, and named as Clippit

ole_1.Object.Characters.Load("Clippit","c:\windows\msagent\chars\peedy.acs")

// show the Clippit
ole_1.Object.Characters("Clippit").Show

// move the Clippit to position 400,200
ole_1.Object.Characters("Clippit").MoveTo(400,200)

// ask Clippit to play animation Greeting
ole_1.Object.Characters("Clippit").Play("Greet")

// ask Clippit to say something
ole_1.Object.Characters("Clippit").Speak("Hello World !!! I am Peedy !!! Called by Powerbuilder !!!")

If you have a speaker (and I bet you have), you can hear the voice speaking from Character.
Run the script, and you will get like this image

There's many build in functions in Agent character, and also many third party characters which you can find at Microsoft Agent's ring.

You can learn more about the functions and properties at Microsoft Agent official site, including the guidelines if you want to create your own character.

Of course, if you want to deploy your Powerbuilder applications with Microsoft Agent object, you also need to install Microsoft Agent cores at the PC Client.

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