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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 […]
Restoring Windows XP Backups on Windows Vista
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Last week I installed a couple more Windows Vista machines after a series of catastrophic problems at one of our smaller clients. Then it came to restoring some files from the backups which where originally created using Window XP backup utility. Microsoft in their great wisdom has removed backwards compatibility with XP backups in Windows […]
Getting Over Office 2007 - Part One
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Since it’s arrival last year, there has been a lot of negative press relating to Office 2007. Primarily over the compatibility of the new documents it produces and the user interface. So generally we have continued to give our existing clients Office 2003. Which is a very similar case with regards to deploying Windows Vista in your business. The problem businesses and IT […]
Trouble Shooting The Blue Screen of Death
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
There are crashes and then there’s The Blue Screen of Death. You may of experienced your PC running slow or a program crashing, but in the Windows 95/98 days the system suddenly halting and restart was a regular occurrence.
Fortunately since Windows 2000 this has become less of a common occurrence, or so it seemed. Working late last night at a client’s office on […]
Windows Live Writer v Word 2007 - Blogging Client
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007Danielle from shopautodotca seocontest thanked me for bringing Windows Live Writer to her attention. Danielle was considering upgrading to Word 2007 to use its desktop blogging features.
So I thought it might be useful to compare features of the two clients.
Windows Live Writer
Word 2007 (Blog Posting)
Advanced HTML formatting, fonts and styling
Some(HTML view)
Fully HTML
Charts
Yes
WordArt
Yes
Symbols
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10 Resources To Improve Your Wireless Network
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 Image from The IT Managers Journal - Check out Jason’s blog
If you live in a city with similar architecture that of Edinburgh, i.e. walls thick enough to stop cannon balls (and wireless signals), offices split between two floors. Then you may of had issues with your wireless network. What’s more old buildings where never designed with network cable in mind, so it’s more […]
SharePoint Services - How Microsoft Will Keep Google At Bay
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007As Google provides more and more web based applications that are capable of competing with Microsoft Office, does Microsoft SharePoint hold the key to keeping Google and others at bay?
Companies like Google are already offering free web based applications such as Google Docs, a Word alternative that runs via your web browser. There are many that argue that the future of […]
8 Free Online Virus and Spyware Scans
Monday, May 28th, 2007If you’ve bought a PC in the last three years or so it more than likely came with Norton Anti Virus pre-installed. Unless you renewed your subscription with Norton, your PC is no longer fully protected! Every day hundreds of new viruses and spyware are created and spread through out the internet. Nearly everyday Companies like Norton provide updates called […]
Copying Files Between Your Apple Mac and Windows Server Using Remote Desktop Connection
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007If your business has a Windows Terminal Server and you use Remote Desktop Connection Client on your Apple Mac to access Windows based programs such as Sage or other bespoke business applications. You can very easily transfer files between these two machines by simply by ticking “Disk Drives” found under Options > Local Resources. This would also work for […]
Sharing Your Contacts Across the business - Microsoft Exchange Server
Thursday, April 26th, 2007If you have Microsoft Exchange Server why not make use of your Public Folders and share you contacts between co-workers? This doesn’t mean your contacts are visible outside your business network,i.e. on the internet! Just people that have access to company email via Outlook.
This guide is for users with Office 2003 and Small Business Server, but I’m […]