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Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on July 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Check out the time-line for this blog at http://www.xtimeline.com/blog/Software-Technology-Discussion 

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Backup Office 2007 Settings

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on July 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »

So, you’ve spent the last few hours setting up Office Outlook views for GTD productivity (as I have done) and are wondering how you backup your office settings incase you need to reinstall at a later time.  Here’s how, using USMT: Google for USMT, download and install. Invoke a command prompt with administrator privileges. Change the directory [...]

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Outlook Panic Averted

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , , , on July 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I was in the middle of enjoying my Friday afternoon at the office when I noticed that all of my archived mail and scheduled calendar appointments were missing from Outlook.  Shock Horror! What was I to do? After throwing my hands in the air, running around the room cursing a few dozen times I went [...]

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Vista Slow File Copy – Fix

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on June 22, 2007 | 30 Comments »

Are you tired of waiting around for Vista to copy your files, did XP seem so much faster at performing the same job?  You’re not alone in thinking there is a problem with the current RTM version of Vista.  MS claim that they’ll fix the problem in Vista SP1 (whenever that is) but for now [...]

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CDRW/DVDROM Driver or Corrupt under Vista/XP

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , on June 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »

For a few weeks now I have been puzzling over why my CDRW/DVD ROM driver refuses to load under Windows Vista.  I naively assumed that I needed to find a replacement driver from the manufacturer (IBM in my case), or perhaps my drive was bad.  After replacing my laptop docking station and the drive unit , [...]

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Tools of the Trade

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , , , , , , on May 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Anyone who knows me, or has been reading my blog of late must know that I have had my head buried in my new job. A career change certainly has its rewards, but also involves a learning curve. Since my time is precious of late (no surprise that blogging has taken a back seat), I [...]

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DisableCertChk and WM5

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on May 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »

[tags:Windows Mobile] At last! I found the solution to Active-stink complaining about an invalid SSL certificate during server sync (my company uses wildcard certificates – not supported on WM5). Surprisingly (or not), the registry on Windows Mobile devices is very familiar if you have ever looked at the registry on a regular PC. Anyways, to [...]

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Google Custom Search

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged , on April 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »

You just gotta love Google I thought the Google nerds were cool when I found out that I could display their search result in my own site (not that I use it because CS comes with packaged search). When I found out that I could host my domain email at Google apps I was ecstatic [...]

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Receive Blog Posts Via Email

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on March 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »

For those of you who’s life evolves around email, this post may be of some interest.  I have recently signed up with FeedBlitz – an emailing service that disseminates blog posts to subscribers.  So, if visiting my web site is a chore (eh?), and you have no time for RSS readers (why?) then you can [...]

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DreamScene, DeskScape and Vista

Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged on February 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Check out this video of my Vista desktop.  DreamScene on Windows Vista Ultimate Extras allows users to play full motion video as background wallpaper, but Stardock DeskScape goes one step further, as an addition to DreamScene, by allowing users to set “Dreams” as their wallpaper.  [Youtube:pEg4q56ONdM] Does anyone know if a Mac can do this?

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