Remote access Fritzbox answering machine

 
Remote access Fritzbox answering machineEveryone of you may know the following situation. You are waiting for call but have to leave your home.
For example you await a call from your smartphone shop. If you would know that the shop has called that you’re phone is ready, you could detour while driving home.
If you own a Fritzbox with VoIP as your router, you belong to the lucky winners in this situation.
This is because you can listen to the messages from the Fritzbox’ answering machine from any phone and anywhere. And this is even not a premium service. For retrieving the messages you only pay the same than for a normal call to your home. So if you’ve got a flatrate it will cost you nothing.
Setting up Fritzbox answering machine for remote access
To be able to […]

Manipulate any program by using C#

Manipulate any program by using CsharpThis article is going to be all about how you can control, customize and extend other programs using C#. As an example scenario we’re going to be extending the default Windows program Notepad with a custom function.
The C# application will modify all running instances of Notepad by adding a new button to the UI and listening for clicks on the button. A click on the button will convert the text in the Notepad text field into HTML using a Markdown parser (What is Markdown?) and display the HTML in our application.
If you follow the article, the finished product is going to look like this:

The article will have you construct the program step by step. If you want to read the full source code right […]

Increase your traffic by using WDF*IDF analysis

WDF*IDF analysisAlright, the title might sound a bit sensational, but actually, “how do I get more visitors” is always an issue and the following article will hopefully highlight how to work towards this direction and what WDF*IDF has to do with it.
If you’re dabbling in SEO circles, “WDF*IDF” should be a household name to you. But not every webmaster or blogger has extensive knowledge in SEO. I even dare to say that most of you might have heard about WDF*IDF from “hearsay”, if you even heard about it at all. Therefore, I would first like to provide a basic understanding of the subject matter and then present you with a useful tool.
If you know about WDF*IDF already, just skip the next two paragraphs and go straight to the
tool presentation.
WDF*IDF […]

Top 7 WordPress SEO plugins

Top 7 WordPress pluginsSome days ago I was asked about my absolute favorite WordPress SEO plugins. At first I had to think about it for a while, because I wasn’t sure how to define what’s a “SEO plugin” and what isn’t. But now I’m sure.
The following is my personal top 7 of WordPress SEO plugins that I also use here on code-bude.net and/or en.code-bude.net. It should be noted that all the plugins I use are available to download for free.
All in One SEO Pack
14 million bloggers can’t all be wrong – that’s how often this plugin is downloaded. It’s All in One SEO pack, and the name speaks for itself. The plugin can perform a whole multitude of optimisations on your site. I personally use it only to automatically generate meta tags. [Plugin […]

Adjusting the screen resolution in VirtualBox

VirtualBox 4:3 screen-ratioFor almost two years, Windows 8 is now on the market. So enough time to find hundreds of reasons to set up a virtual machine running Windows 8. Unfortunately, you are greeted by the form factor of yesteryear already during the installation.
In plain language, the aspect ratio of the sceen was in 4:3 ratio, which looked really ugly on my laptop which is in widescreen format.
After the installation I wanted to resolve the “problem” by adjusting the screen resolution, but realized that I only had a choice between various resolutions in 4:3 factor.
Let us come to the thing – how can we fix it? The problem lies in the lack of support of the graphics driver. Normally this can be fix by re-installation of Oracle’s so-called guest expansion. But sometimes it simply doesn’t work and […]