Microsoft rewrites them anytime they make a significant change. That seems anytime they feel like it. It’s annoying. It wastes time.
TECH: Why can’t I lock my desktop icons the way I want them?
Thursday, October 19, 2006
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TECH: GOOGLE SEARCH has a strategic flaw
Thursday, October 19, 2006When I went to look up an obit for a fellow alum, I wanted to find the funeral home’s site and see what it had to say. You can’t do it.
You get overwhelmed with sites that have stories that use their name, as well as, what I will call scraper sites that have created “listings”. Those so called listings don’t point to the underlying real site.
Hmmm?
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TECH: PRINTERALL has a small flaw
Thursday, October 19, 2006If you print a document and ask for multiple copies, then PRINTERALL only produces one copy.
Interesting.
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TECH: You can “vampire” LINKEDIN …
Thursday, October 19, 2006My profile is on LinkedIn at:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=214231
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if you want to play pick a new friend at random
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Pick a number!
Put it at the end of the following string:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=
… and meet your new friend!
How long before a bot master discovers this and “sucks” linkedin dry.
Zoominfo did it with the public inet. Why couldn’t a bad guy do it with this “semi-private” data source?
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TECH: Microsoft has no viewer for Microsoft Project
Wednesday, October 18, 2006http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm#Project%20Viewer
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Microsoft has not provided a viewer for Project. However, it is designed with the Web in mind, which allows anyone with an Internet Browser or email facilities to view details. For a picture, try clicking the copy picture button (little camera on the standard toolbar). There you have the option of creating a GIF file which can be used with the Save As… HTML format or directly attached to an email. Save As HTML… > give a file name and Save > select an Export Map (or New Map) > Edit > Options tab check “Include image file in HTML page” > insert path and name of GIF image.
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Argh! That’s a bummer. I like the viewers to protect me from active content in Microsoft files. Sigh!
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TECH: The signup for GMAIL has a flaw
Wednesday, October 18, 2006It allows you to send repeatedly invites to the same email address.
I use it to generate extra email addresses that I can use for specific purposes.
Maybe they don’t care.
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TECH: LookOut, aka MSFT OutLook, has ANOTHER message “stuck”!
Wednesday, October 18, 2006An email I wrote yesterday, and “sent”, is stuck in the outbox. Argh!
No apparent reason. No fix possible.
Workaround is to copy it to a new message, send that, and nuke the stukee.
Argh!
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TECH: Updated main site
Tuesday, October 17, 2006To correct some earlier blunders. Feedback?
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TECH: What do you do with big files? Don’t email them!
Tuesday, October 17, 2006http://copylog.blogspot.com/2005/11/big-collection-of-free-file-hosting.html
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2005-11-30
A Big Collection of Free File Hosting
Collection of 50+ free file hosting from 10MB to 2GB that do not require registration, with detailed of file size limit, download limit and file life. Keep it for future reference.
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Came in handy for an emergency need.
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TECH: “Backup before using Beta or New Releases” but is that possible?
Monday, October 16, 2006http://www.pcmech.com/newsletter/viewtip.php?tipid=704
Backup before using Beta or New Releases
Sent on October 15, 2006 | Category: General Software
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It is always a good idea to have a full backup of all your data before installing *any* beta or new release software.
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Hey, wonderful idea. Tell Microsoft!
With the auto update, you have zero control over forced updates. they even reboot your machine remotely. Even if you aren’t ready for it to happen. Or, they do annoying nags to reboot. Or, slip stuff into fixes and ilk.
Even with the other bozo software companies, it’s not that easy to control the versioning.
With web-based software, it virtually impossible.
There are at least two levels of change control that needs to be considered — at the program level and at the data level.
The trend is in the other direction as is evidenced by the virtual abandonment of version numbers. (I still don’t see what is wrong with version 1, 2, 3, 3.5, 7.02.) It implies that there is compatibility at some level between the old and the new. I remember when software would be graceful about versioning. Heck, the monster Microsoft allowed Word to write old format data.
The user is the version control?
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