Microsoft just bought Skype. Well, just when you think things are calming down IT wise something comes along and blows you out of your chair. The possibilities for this one are HUGE and really show how important coms is to Microsoft. They just went from VoIP non-players to the new market leader in one swoop! …
Yesterday I hit a reasonably strange problem, which took me quite some time to resolve, long enough, in fact, to prompt me to post this in the hope that anyone else encountering can avoid the circuitous route I took! Symptom: Windows 7 system unable to browse local domain resources (file shares etc) but access to …
Loving “wordsquared.com“, and recommend everyone tries it at least once, very accessible and it’s such a simple, but clever idea. It’s similar to Scrabble, except you play against everyone else in the world at once, on an infinitely growable board! It’s hard to fully explain, but try it and I think you’ll be impressed! (For …
When using Windows 7, if you receive a message in the bottom right of the desktop stating that “You are logged into a Temporary Profile.” this indicates that your user profile is corrupt. It also means that the system will not retain any profile changes / files created by this user until the problem is …
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Time to run trusty old windows update and pickup Windows 7 SP1, which has literally just gone live. In addition to the usual raft of security, performance & stability improvements we can also expect better HDMI audio interconnectivity, and better folder restoration… but will it cure the hit-and-miss content display refresh issues (certainly hope so, …
So you want to play with SSL certificates on Windows 2008 (R2)? Well the you probably already know that SSL & Host Headers don’t mix in IIS 7 (well not via it’s GUI anyway!)! But never fear, even though the GUI is pathetically incapable of working with host headers & SSL, you can achieve what …
So how many password do you have? Or, more importantly perhaps, how many sites do you log in to? If you’re reading this the answer is most probably “lots”. But how can we re-engineer the increasing burden of the many different sets of usernames & passwords we must manage? The answer, obviously, is for someone …
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http://goo.gl URL shorteners are very useful things in our modern world & I like Google. Thusly, I hereby encourage everyone to use this new service from Google for all their URL shortening requirements! It also tracks how many times your shortened URL is clicked and presents this usage data in a really clean & clear …
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