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Microsoft Word 2013 – Remove Markup Area

Ooi Keng Siang — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:23:19 +0000

In my previous post, I have encounters a problem in Microsoft Word 2013 where the markup area (a huge blank space on the right hand side which is colored in light silver / gray color) keep on pop-up whenever I tries to print my word document or I save my document to PDF format. Instead hiding it every time whenever I tries to print the document, I have found a way to completely remove it.

How Does This Happen

First, how does this happen? It is probably you or some one had added a comment in your word document but you didn’t realize about it. User can add comment on document by simply right click and select New Comment. Since it is pretty simple, you might accidentally click on it without realize it.

Solution to Remove The Markup Area

Step 1: Open the word document which have this kind of problem. Goto Review tab on top.

Step 2: Make sure the All Markup is selected in the Tracking menu. Now, click the Next button in the Changes menu.

Step 3: Now the word should show your the comment which you or some one added in the document.

Step 4: Right-click on the comment and select Delete Comment in order to delete the comment.

Step 5: Repeat Step 2 to Step 4 until all comments are deleted.

Step 6: Remember to save your word document. By default, the markup area will be hidden when you open it the next time.

Hope this small tips can help you get rip of the trouble whenever you print your word documents, especially those documents which require a lot of editing like research thesis.

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Windows Phone – Max Database Size Problem in SQL CE

Ooi Keng Siang — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:36:14 +0000

If you have encounters an SQLCeException error during a LINQ operation for example Union on a very large data set, check the error message. If the error message shows something like “The database file is larger than the configured maximum database size. This setting takes effect on the first concurrent database connection only.“, then congratulation to you, because you just hit the limit.

The Windows Phone team think any application in phone should not use that much memory, but still some of us might hit this limit. For example like me which required to search through 20,000+ data sets with complicated search conditions. The solution to this problem is pretty simple, add a max database size in the connection string to SQL CE. You will need a complete connection string this time instead of just defind the location of your SQL CE database file.

For example, my connection string before this is as follow:

@"isostore:/CardsDatabase.sdf"

Then after adding the max database size parameter and convert it to a complete connection string, it will become like this:

@"Data Source='isostore:/CardsDatabase.sdf';Max Database Size=64;"

The 64 in the connection string mean I wants to increase the max database size to 64 MB instead of the default value. Hope this little information can help.

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MouseHunt AutoBot 1.28 – Chrome King Reward Sound Fixed

Ooi Keng Siang — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:26:00 +0000

Sorry for the fix delay. Another quick fix for King Reward sound in Google Chrome. I have enable offline king reward sound on Google Chrome in this version. That mean it can play the sound directly from Google Chrome browser instead of streaming through online. Do tell me if any problem pop up again.

Wish everyone merry Christmas and happy new year.

Script Description

MouseHunt AutoBot is an advance user script to automate sounding the hunter horn in MouseHunt application in Facebook, Hi5 and offside MouseHunt page with MouseHunt version 3.0 (Longtail) supported and many other features. In a simple word, bot for MouseHunt. Time of next hunter horn and trap check will show on the web page title. The time of the next hunter horn will automatically detected without refreshing the page again. Users can customize the script according to their need by themselves such as add extra random time delay before sounding the hunter horn. Users can choose to bot safety with many safety check features which act like a human, or bot aggressively. Part of the script is actually base on Facebook MouseHunt Game Auto Horn Blower.

Main Features

Support MouseHunt version 3.0 (Longtail).
Automatically sound horn when time’s up with extra random time define by player.
Simulate mouse click on the horn image instead of URL sound horn.
Automatically detect and retrieval the next horn time without refreshing the page.
Show next hunter horn and others timer in the page and title.
Stop bot when player move to location different than pre-define location.
Safety features such as check horn image is visible or not before sounding the horn. (bot can sound the horn without the horn appear first if aggressiveMode is on)
Cross-browsers support.
Set preference setting such as horn delay time directly in the game.

Platform Support

Facebook – http://apps.facebook.com/mousehunt/
Hi5 – http://mousehunt.hi5.hitgrab.com/
MouseHunt Offside Page – http://www.mousehuntgame.com/

Browser Support

Mozilla Firefox with Greasemonkey add-on
Opera
Google Chrome

Precautions

Use this script at your own risk because AutoBot script is again the rule set by MouseHunt, that is users are not allowed to use any tool to automate sounding the hunter horn.
You are reminded not to use your real name or the same name you use in Facebook to post / reply discussion here because some one might go after you and please don’t ask me why I use my real name here.
Do uninstall any other MouseHunt auto sound horn scripts before install this script to prevent conflict with this script.

Known Issues

Script timer is running faster than MouseHunt provided timer, this is because MouseHunt programmed the timer in a way to have +/- 5 seconds delay.
The script will pause when encounter king’s reward due to MouseHunt 3.0 (Longtail) require user to resolve the captcha first no matter how long the user had idle in the game.
The page may have minor refresh due to Facebook / Hi5 fetching data from server, it was not related with the script.

How to Install User Script

Download

Download through userscript website.

Changelog

Version 1.28

Fix King Reward sound not working on Google Chrome.
Enable offline King Reward sound feature to Google Chrome.

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Hoax Alert – Top 10 Facebook Friends Who Viewed Your Profile

Ooi Keng Siang — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:17:11 +0000

Recently I saw some of my Facebook friends start spreading a rather weird method to check and see the top 10 Facebook friends who viewed or stalk your Facebook profile. Below are the 2 examples of the method share through out the Facebook. I’m very sure it is a hoax when I first know of it.

So what are those ID use in Facebook? Those are the the Facebook users / friends which will appear in your top Facebook chat list especially those who recently chat with your or send you any Facebook message. It is nothing special. Even if you don’t enable Facebook chat, those ID will be there too.

As of today, I never heard of any method where you can actually track who viewed or stalked your Facebook profile. So don’t caught by those silly hoax that are try to attract your attention by telling you how to track your friends. None of them work!

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MouseHunt AutoBot 1.27 – King Reward Sound Fix

Ooi Keng Siang — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:02:17 +0000

A very quick fix for King Reward sound problem on http://www.mousehuntgame.com/ page after they implement the login feature. It should be working now. I have a feeling that they will still make changes to the game, so keep me posted on the latest update on how the script working as I’m no longer playing the game as often as you all.

Script Description

Main Features

Support MouseHunt version 3.0 (Longtail).
Automatically sound horn when time’s up with extra random time define by player.
Simulate mouse click on the horn image instead of URL sound horn.
Automatically detect and retrieval the next horn time without refreshing the page.
Show next hunter horn and others timer in the page and title.
Stop bot when player move to location different than pre-define location.
Safety features such as check horn image is visible or not before sounding the horn. (bot can sound the horn without the horn appear first if aggressiveMode is on)
Cross-browsers support.
Set preference setting such as horn delay time directly in the game.

Platform Support

Facebook – http://apps.facebook.com/mousehunt/
Hi5 – http://mousehunt.hi5.hitgrab.com/
MouseHunt Offside Page – http://www.mousehuntgame.com/

Browser Support

Mozilla Firefox with Greasemonkey add-on
Opera
Google Chrome

Precautions

Use this script at your own risk because AutoBot script is again the rule set by MouseHunt, that is users are not allowed to use any tool to automate sounding the hunter horn.
You are reminded not to use your real name or the same name you use in Facebook to post / reply discussion here because some one might go after you and please don’t ask me why I use my real name here.
Do uninstall any other MouseHunt auto sound horn scripts before install this script to prevent conflict with this script.

Known Issues

Script timer is running faster than MouseHunt provided timer, this is because MouseHunt programmed the timer in a way to have +/- 5 seconds delay.
The script will pause when encounter king’s reward due to MouseHunt 3.0 (Longtail) require user to resolve the captcha first no matter how long the user had idle in the game.
The page may have minor refresh due to Facebook / Hi5 fetching data from server, it was not related with the script.
Google Chrome will playing King’s Reward sound through streaming but Opera and Firefox will play directly from the script.

How to Install User Script

Download

Download through userscript website.

Changelog

Version 1.27

Fix King Reward sound not working on MouseHunt official webpage after login feature added

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Speed Typing – Challenge Accepted

Ooi Keng Siang — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 05:12:43 +0000

It all started when one of my friends posted a challenged post on Facebook. Beat his result in 10fastfingers.com. So me and my friends think it will be fun to accept the challenge and maybe make fun on our friend a little bit. Ever though we have been warned not to use any kind of cheating… well…

Two of my friends posted those updates instead. I’m not sure how they did it, but here are the results. My friend suspected about the results, but I don’t really care, because I was busy writing script that time which I’m good at instead of trying to type and beat the record.

After a few testing, I’m a bit disappointed because it only give 361 words in the game and I can’t go any further then that. So here is my result. Of cause, all my friends know that I’m cheating because no body can type that fast anyway. 361 words per minute, unless I’m an alien right?

In the end, my friends call me an alien. Not sure is because the result I posted or the speed I use to write the cheating script. Since I got nothing to do with the script after I making fun of my friend, here is the copy of the script (you need to rename it to 10FastFingersAutoBot.user.s after download). I tried on Opera only, although theoretically it should be able to work on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome too. Since I was lazy to write the auto space key stroke, you need to manually hit the space bar yourself. Please don’t spam 10fastfingers.com with this script.

Another friend of mine beat my record! But how? He took my screen shot and photoshop-ed the result. You can see the link is from different domain and as I said there are only 361 word available for player to type only. So 443 words per minute is impossible. But this is kind of cool to troll my friend.

Next time, don’t challenge your friends speed typing through Facebook. Especially if you have a bunch of crazy Computer Sciences / IT background friends or friends with so many free time to hack the game instead of playing it.

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Windows Store App – Focus on TextBox when Navigated To The Page

Ooi Keng Siang — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:56:59 +0000

Some time you want to make your app more user friendly by automatically focus on specify control for example search text box so that when user open the page, they can start typing the keyword they want to search rather than click on the search text box first then only start typing.

I try to use TextBox.Focus() in OnNavigatedTo, but it nothing happen. So I try to use the same method use in Silverlight by creating a DispatcherTimer and delay the focus by 0.5 second. Well, this method work out in Windows Store App. If you are interested, below are the code.

// timer to create initial focus on control
DispatcherTimer initialFocusDispatcherTimer = new DispatcherTimer();
initialFocusDispatcherTimer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, 500);
initialFocusDispatcherTimer.Tick += (tickSender, tickEvent) =>
    {
        initialFocusDispatcherTimer.Stop();

    // focus on search bar
    SearchTextBox.Focus(Windows.UI.Xaml.FocusState.Keyboard);
    };
initialFocusDispatcherTimer.Start();

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Get Ready for WOWZAPP 2012 in Malaysia

Ooi Keng Siang — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:44:03 +0000

A few more days to go before WOWZAPP Malaysia 2012 kick start! So what is this WOWZAPP first? Just in case if you don’t know what is WOWZAPP, it is a worldwide hackathon for developers to get building cool apps for Windows 8. There are thousands of developers around the world building apps for the next generation of Windows during this event. WOWZAPP in Malaysia will be on 10-11 Nov 2012 at MMU, Cyberjaya. Music, free food, expert help, free resources will be available there to assist your learning and coding without sleep. Maybe a bit of sleep.

For more information: http://aka.ms/mywowzapp2012

You might think what is the fun of joining this event. Through this event, student get the chances to meet with different students from different universitis in Malaysia, connect with industrial professionals, win some amazing prizes including Lenovo Ideapad Yoga, Acer S7 untralbook, Windows Phone, cash prize and more. This is the place where students can shine their talents! Of course, there are lot of fun other than just coding all day long.

Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) Malaysia will cover the event live through different social media channels. If you are interested to see what happen, then follow us in those channels in 10-11 Nov 2012 then.

Students in Malaysia are already very excited even before the WOWZAPP start! We change our Facebook cover photo to share the event with everyone. Here are some of the great cover photo I found. You can find more in MSP Malaysia fans page too.

I won’t miss out this party for sure. I also came out my own cover photo with character from Plants vs Zombies. By the way, why you see so many zombies in WOWZAPP promotion art or poster? This is because WOWZAPP is a 36 hours sleepless hackaton which we believe everyone will turn into zombie after the event end! That why we have so many zombies in the photo!

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Facebook Missing Some Updates From Friends

Ooi Keng Siang — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:44:16 +0000

“Why I never see the update post from my friend who everyone is discussing it now?” Does this sound too familiar to you? You know that you didn’t block your friend’s update but you just can’t found the update post on your news feed unless you go to that person’s profile / wall to see it.
There are some changes in Facebook which I’m not sure when and how, but here is what you can do.

Step 1: Go to your friend’s profile page and click on the Friends button on the top right.

Step 2: Make sure the “Show in News Feed” is checked. Then click on the “Settings…” below it.

Step 3: Now you should be able to see the option of “How many update?” Select the option you want. If you want all update, just select “All Updates“.

Step 4: Done. For now you need to repeat this process for all the friends you really want to see all their post on your news feed.

Don’t expect that Facebook will automatically select All Updates even though he / she is listed as your relationship partner. Hope this small tips help you, especially “spying” on someone you “care”…

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Windows Store App – Check If File Exist or Not

Ooi Keng Siang — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 04:26:35 +0000

Before Windows 8, to check a file exist or not on Windows Phone 7.5 or .NET can be as simple as calling the file.IsFileExist() and it will return a simple boolean indicated whatever the file exist or not. But Windows 8 team decided to have a totally different way and I had no idea why Microsoft or Windows 8 team decided to re-write it.

Anyway, here is how it work out in Windows 8 app (C# code):

public async Task IsFileExist(string path)
{
    try
    {
        await Windows.Storage.StorageFile.GetFileFromPathAsync(path);

        // file found
        return (true);
    }
    catch
    {
        // file not found
        return (false);
    }
}

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