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Changing Names, e-mail addresses, social networks, Zune & Gamer tags

Aimee — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:07:08 +0000

Ah marriage. Seems now that preparing for the wedding was the easy part. I’ve decided to take my husband’s name. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn is pretty easy and for the exception of twitter, the 2 are actually accommodating of maiden names.

Before I’m allowed to change my email address at work, I need to produce a document of my legal name change, and that requires me applying for a new passport (my passport is about to expire anyway). If you’re planning to renew a Philippine passport in Singapore, be prepared to wake up at 5 am to physically get a queue number. I’ll detail this tedious in another post, I’m getting tired just thinking about it.

For email addresses, hotmail actually makes it quite easy to make aliases for your hotmail address so if you want to change it, you’re still logging into the same inbox. More details of that here.

For Zune and Xbox gamer tags, it’s actually quite simple. I followed the instructions here and automagically, my Zune account was also migrated and it seems that so have my purchases and subscriptions. YEY! Not only that, my developer account on http://create.msdn.com is actually also migrated. YEY!

My problem now, is my windows phone. Since you set up your live id when you first turn on your phone, and this is something that you can’t change without resetting, I seem to no longer be able to make purchases on the marketplace. Even if I try buying through the zune app, it tells me I have to sign out and back in with the original live id used to set up the phone.

looks like I’ll have to wipe my phone…

Creative Presentations

Aimee — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:52:32 +0000

Some really good presentations with really good content.

Vanity URL for Your Facebook Page Without the minimum Fans

Aimee — Tue, 03 May 2011 15:22:50 +0000

If you’re just starting to explore facebook as a platform for marketing, you will probably won’t have 1000/25 (whatever the number is now) fans just yet. Facebook imposed a rule on vanity URLs (http://www.facebook.com/) that pages need to have a minimum number of followers before being allowed to customize their vanity URL. More on that on this page

However, with the help of Facebook’s recently released tool to migrate your profile pages to fan pages, we can actually work around this limitation. These are the steps I took:

1. Sign up for a new account at http://facebook.com (or use one of your extra ones that you don’t use very much and haven’t set a vanity URL for yet)

2. Add some friends (yourself perhaps?), update your profile, picture, all of the basics especially verifying your email address.

3. Visit http://www.facebook.com/username to set your vanity URL. Before you can do this, you will need to verify your account via SMS. Don’t know of a work around for for this step though. Also, you can only use a phone number once.This is what you should be seeing:

Before you can set your username, you need to verify your account.

If you have a mobile phone that can receive SMS messages, you can verify via mobile phone. If not, please try to register your username at a later time.

4. Once you put in your verification code, you’ll be able to choose a vanity URL. This should be your desired business page’s vanity URL. IMPORTANT: you can only set this once so choose carefully!

5. Once you find one that’s not taken and confirm your selection, you can proceed to the migration tool to migrate your profile to a fan page. This page will allow you to classify the type of page/business you want to be classified under. Remember to agree to the terms and conditions and click on “Get Started”.

6. Welcome to your new brand page complete with vanity url!

The great thing about setting your page up like this is that the page is an account in itself. When you login to facebook with the email you first used to sign up, you’ll be taken straight to the page admin.

I know i should have taken screenshots but i didn’t think it would actually work :p Try it out now before facebook catches on

Surprise London Visit

Aimee — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 04:56:06 +0000

We arrived LHR at 5am Saturday. We we aiming to get a transit without visa
pass for me so we could see a bit of London. But the customs girl told us
there was an internal bus to terminal 5 and we didn’t have to get out of the
airport. Great, we had 12 hours to kill inside the terminal. Once we got
there and once the sun had risen, I got to see snow for the first time in my
life! I was so excited! A few hours later when they started canceling all
the flights in the day, I was not so excited anymore. Eventually they
cancelled our flight too which was scheduled to leave at 6 and They gave me
a 48 hour visa into london.

Of course, we checked our bags all the way to Stockholm so it was impossible
to find it among the sea of luggage that was splayed throughout the area
(not sorted in anyway). There was a form we filled in to have them ship it
to Stockholm. Good thing, we had on carry-on some of our cold clothes. With
the help of our friends, we managed to find a hotel here in Soho.

After that, the first thing we did was do essentials shopping: Macbooks
charger, iphone charger, kindle & windows phone charger, and underwear. We
had finished our batteries from watching Meet the Parents trying to kill
time at the airport (we totally related to the baggage loss scene). We
managed to book our flights for Monday at the same time, so here’s hoping it
doesn’t get cancelled.

The next day, we decided to make the most out of being stranded by walking
around the area. I got to see the london eye and big ben, and somewhere
midday, we went to watch tron (just to keep a bit warm since my face was now
wind burned). In the afternoon, we had a surprise visit from the F’s sister
and a daughter, very cute little angel! That definitely made the afternoon a
lot of fun. They left around 7pm but at that point, F & I were also already
very tired so we went back to the hotel to rest.

And now at 3 am we’re both wide awake O_o I guess this is jetlag…

#london #holiday #sweden-spain

See and download the full gallery on posterous

the beer is bigger and better with the Samsung Omnia 7 (vs LG Optimus 7)

Aimee — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 13:35:18 +0000

Thanks for letting me borrow your phone ken!

UPDATE: Web Messenger is HERE!

Aimee — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:58:05 +0000

You can find the Messenger icon on the upper right corner of the page when you access Live Mail from the browser.

Once you sign in, you’ll have the same presence options as you do on the client version of the messenger.

You can access your contacts and start an IM conversation.

And this is how the messenger window looks like:

There is one problem though:

nudging is quite important for me as well

Google Chrome on Click Once Deployment!

Aimee — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:15:40 +0000

It’s always good to see when companies are not afraid to use products of the competition if they think it’s the right tool for the job.

Things to do this weekend

Aimee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:51:42 +0000

Work on Kuya’s project
Upgrade my blog to 2.6.2
Redesign http://aimeegurl.com
Go to Borders and restock on books to read
figure out a way to build a todo list for my blog

nerdplusart

Aimee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:18:43 +0000

you guys HAVE to check this site out. The design is just AWESOME. Now I’m inspired to redesign my blog so it looks as cool as this. This will be on my sure to do list

They also have lots of cool demo code that you can download that cover Silverlight and WPF and stunts like animations, particle generation etc. Just -AWESOME.