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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007Another operating system, another delay….
Microsoft has now pushed back Windows Server 2008 release to manufacturing to the first quarter. Release to manufacturing had been expected by the end of this year. The change foreshadows that the new server software will not likely be broadly available for its scheduled Feb. 27, 2008 launch.
Come on Microsoft, […]
Improving Windows XP for Families
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Now you’d think that ‘Windows XP Home’ would have been created to do what it says on the tin, be a system tailored for home users, in particular families with kids! Unfortunately without downloading a rather simple and free application from Microsoft, Windows XP is rather a poor offering.
In a family you would expect there to be a range […]
12 Ways to backup your data
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Everyone knows backing up your documents and files is something we should do on a regular basis, but quite often this task gets pushed to the bottom of the todo list. You might already have a system in place but would it fail if your office was in a fire? When was the last time you checked […]
Plan your projects using Mind Mapping software
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Last night I was speaking to one of my clients about their ideas for software system they would like developing. Although my client had done an excellent job of laying out her ideas using Excel and Word, I feel that actually with all it’s features Microsoft Office had let her down.
Yeah you can use some of […]
Which Firefox extensions would you pay money for?
Monday, July 30th, 2007
Extensions add some great functionality to Firefox. Although with thousands available, your web browser can quickly become overloaded. But what if you had to pay for them, which extensions would you really install?
Here’s ten extensions I use on daily basis and have made the effort to installing them on more than one machine on a […]
Is Linux ready for the Desktop?
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
Is Linux ready for the mainstream desktop?
Just been reading an article from eWeek called The March of the Penguins, which kind of coincided with my brother and I installing Linux Ubuntu last Friday. Here something I rather liked from the article…
In 2001 we had…
Outlook Express
Internet Explorer
Office
Windows XP
Today in 2007 we have…
Open Office v Office
Firefox v Internet Explorer
Thunderbird v Outlook Express
Ubuntu / SuSE […]
Stop my laptop from hibernating when I close the lid
Friday, July 20th, 2007He’s how you stop your laptop from either hibernating or going into standby mode when you shut the lid of your laptop.
On the desktop right click and select properties, the Display Properties should appear.
Click on the Screen Saver tab and click on Power
Click on the Advance tab and change When I close […]
Sharing your Outlook contacts with co-workers
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007If your business use Outlook but doesn’t a have centralised system to share contacts with co-work, you can get around this simply by exporting the address list to an Excel compatible file. Then import the file into a co-workers Outlook.
So how do I export them?
Open Outlook and navigate to the contacts section
Click on File > Import and Export […]
What’s this weeks internet buzz? Pownce
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Over the last couple of months or so, the internet buzz could be summed up as…
I’ve touched on Twitter before and even had a play around with it. Jaiku is nice because it pulls all our various Web 2.0 feeds together and reformats them into a timeline, see the right hand side. I am currently playing around with […]
Bootable CD to the rescue!
Monday, July 9th, 2007A couple of weeks ago I had some hard drive issues with a clients PC which stored the majority of their business data. Although backup was performed the night before, the hard drive failure occurred later on the next day. So it was essential to recover the days work from the failing hard drive. In this […]
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