I have done this one several times… its always good: Go to your victims (I mean friends) computer and click the PRINT SCREEN button on the keyboard Paste that image into PAINT (or whatever you want to use) and save it as a .JPG Now set the WALLPAPER to be Read more…
Well most people use Google, so lets screw with that: Go to your “buddys” machine and launch Google Click PREFERENCES / SETTINGS / the COG ICON (usually in the top right of the screen) Set the INTERFACE LANGUAGE to ELMER FUDD (yes, that is there) or GREEK More April Fools Read more…
This is easy and fast: Launch Word 2007/2010 Click the Office Button/File Menu in 2007/2010 – Click TOOLS menu in 2003 and older Click WORD OPTIONS, PROOFING Click the AUTOCORRECT OPTIONS button In the AUTOCORRECT table set a common word to be something else like, THE set to CAT or Read more…
By Michael Robertson of Lindows/Linspire Apple is making a preposterous claim to the trademark office that they invented the app store concept and name and they’re asking a Judge to stop Amazon from even using the words “app store”. It’s baffling why such a phenomenal company who is trouncing the Read more…
Blackberry OS6 Can Do it? Nope, it can’t. I read that OS6 was supposed to support 2 BES accounts (and possibly more) on a single OS6 device but that was apparently incorrect. Fortunately it is quite easy to add more than one BES accounts to your blackberry running OS5 Read more…
I recently completed a Lunch & Learn on how to EASILY take any number of still photos / graphics and add it to video clips to make a single video using just FREE Microsoft software. The primary tool is Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 and this course covers: preparation adding Read more…
NORTELS DEAD: What are you going to do now? It used to be so easy to choose a quality phone system that would last 15+ years with almost no maintenace, but then Nortel went Bankrupt. In 2006 Nortel (Bell Canada) had 82% of the North American corporate phone market, was huge Read more…
Originally, this post was titled: “If you are planning on putting a couple of SSD drives in a RAID 1 (Mirror), don’t.” but after many more hours of calls to Intel and pages of reading I can safely say: “If you are planning on putting a couple of SSD drives Read more…
Soooo, your company is suing someone, or being sued, and you’ve been told find all of the mail johnny@some-co.com sent to lucy@your-domain.com and they want you to do it without letting either party know. No problem if you are running Exchange 2007! Give yourself FULL ACCESS permission to the mailbox in question Read more…
Up & Running has always provided high quality web and email hosting for clients in the Calgary region, but with our new partnership we have migrated to a new hosting platform. We now provide FULL line of web services on higly redundant server farm with FREE 24 hour real person, NORTH AMERICAN Read more…
Recently a popular website (gawker.com) had their user account database hackaed and 1.25 million encrypted accounts were “stolen”. The hacker then descrypted 185,000 of them and posted them for all to see. Most people trying to steal your data or money will often use a computer program to guess at Read more…
“BlackBerry® Enterprise Server Express enables businesses of any size to quickly and easily get started with the BlackBerry solution. It provides advanced BlackBerry smartphone features with no additional software or user license fees, and works with any Internet-enabled BlackBerry data plan or a BlackBerry enterprise data plan.” http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/business/server/express/ ok… but Read more…
I recently blew an hour trying to attach a VHD inot a HyperV on a new Server 2008 R2 64Bit Standard server but received “A Virtual Disk Provider for the specified file was not found” which was not cool. The solution was a small registry change as documented http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2013544 Solution: 1) Start Registry Read more…
When emails are sorted on arrival into folders by Outlook 2007 rules, they do not appear on a BlackBerry. If, using Outlook, the emails are moved manually into subfolders, the messages do appear on the BlackBerry. The solution is to have the user (or you signing in as the user) Read more…
From HP & Gartner Group We’re always trying to see into the future, imagining what our world will look like, ten, twenty, a hundred years from now. In August 2010, industry analysts Gartner, Inc. released their predictions for changing trends in the way we will work over the next ten Read more…
By: Brian Jackson ITWorldCanada …Proximity marketing involves sending an advertsement to an individual when they get close enough to one fixed spot. Mac’s Convenience will use Bluetooth dongles to push coupons to consumers’ smartphones in a bid to boost sales in convenience stores. Canadians that walk into a Mac’s Read more…