I thought they were actually doing something!
TECH: 1&1 blog maps to WordPress … interesting
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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TECH: PRINTERANYWHERE looks like it could be useful
Tuesday, August 15, 2006http://www.printeranywhere.com/index.html
PrinterAnywhere is a solution to print documents from a computer connected to the Internet to other people’s printers on the network. You can print directly from your application such as Microsoft Word, Outlook or any other program you work with to a printer connected to another computer next door or ten thousand miles away. With PrinterAnywhere you can share your printers with other or print your documents on someone else’s printer. Unlike fax, PrinterAnywhere does not require the documents being scanned and only then transmitted. don’t want to send (email) electronic copies of the documents. It is also useful whenever the recipient does not have the application to open your documents. Free download.
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TECH: GRIPELOG gives HP the “kiss of death” Caveat Emptor!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2006/08/15_a437.html#a437
THE GRIPE LINE WEBLOG by Ed Foster
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
HP Printers: The Older, the Better?
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Even so, many readers say that HP has fallen from the top of their list of suppliers because of quality issues.
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I agree printers suck. I had an OJ85 that ran forever. When it died, fixing it was prohibitive. I’ve been buying printers and they seem to die very quickly. Dried print heads. Strange failures. Expensive ink refills. It appears that Brother is my new choice. Absent any other info. Buy cheap ’cause you’ll be tossing them soon.
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TECH: Search engines for blogs are fooled by something.
Monday, August 14, 2006I have this defined in my rss reader:
AND it pulls up trash like this:
http://bet-wwts.com/archives/manhattan-college-basebal-l/56251/
Any thoughts?
I admire their ingenuity, but it wastes my time.
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TECH: Whose to blame for no backups?
Sunday, August 13, 2006http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877-6093189.html#
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#1: Accidentally deleting the VP’s files without having a backup.
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I wouldn’t feel bad. There’s a reason why they call it “personal” computing. And, in an enterprise, any exec worht their salt doesn’t depend on centralized IT for recovery. I once had a low tech boss who printed everything, took it home, where his wife scanned it in to their home computer. Depend upon others at your own peril! If there’s a company policy against it, figure out a way to do it within policy!
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TECH: Why an organized approach to the “personal computer” is needed!
Sunday, August 13, 2006http://pcmech.com/show/bizspot/981/
Surviving Disk Crashes
Category: Weekly Columns / Small Business Spotlight – August 9, 2006. Posted by Rahul Pitre.
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# You can’t find the Windows XP CD
# You can find the Office 2003 CD, but … the registration key has vanished …
# You purchased some software online and the downloaded file just got hosed along with the now-deceased hard drive. Of course, you don’t remember what user id you used for registration and the credit card used for the purchase was cancelled last year.
# You use the 1999 version of some software. … The 2006 version … can’t read the version 1999 data files.
# Tech support asked you to make changes to the registry … you can’t remember what you did.
# You can’t remember the name of that little East-European program you use to take notes
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He left out the crap that comes with the system that you got with the system for free but there’s no way to reinstall it or register it or reauthenticate to it or reactivate it. And, it’s was registered using an now defunct email account for an isp that was acquired and spun out six times. Arghhh!
My list would go:
- Window’s
- Office
- other MSFT products
- free stuff that came on the hard disk
- rud that your isp gave you (note: the free mcafee is probably why i’m in this mess!)
- stuff you did
- stuff you downloaded
- stuff you bought with no media
- stuff you bought, media & keys & stuff gone
- settings inside programs that won’t divulge what you did or allow you to export your own data
- time spent in recovery
- all your data
- all your methods and procedures
And this is a productivity enhancer?
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TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …
Sunday, August 13, 2006I like to organize my contacts into logical groups (i.e., fellow alums, LinkedIn, Prepsters, Prepsters64, family, friends, acquaintences, coworkers, excoworjkers, exjobs). So I have different files for different groups. What happens when one person is across different groups? Does LookOut recognize people? Nah. That’s your problem!
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TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …
Sunday, August 13, 2006It’s inconsistent. (Porbably the most damning thing one can say about a software product)
It takes mental vacations when you are pounding away, and goes off doing something or an other, all I am sure very important, but frustrating.
The right mouse click doesn’t always work. For example, when I am creating a new contact from an alumni record, I cutnpaste (didn’t know that was now a one word verb, did ya?) from an alums info on mcalumdb. Sometimes their birthday is in the mcalumdb, so I highlight it, copy it to the clipboard, take the “details” tab, highlight the trash that in the birthday field, right click getting ready to paste, and nothing. It doesn’t work. I have to cntl v it. Argh!
Also, “take the details tab” means I have move my right hand from the keyboard to the mouse to take it. Arghh! Each tab coulda had an alt key combo assigned to it. SO, I should be able to to an ALT D to it. I think that no one really used this stuff. It’s so obvious.
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TECH: Phishers are funny!
Saturday, August 12, 2006As reader’s here know, I use LOTS of email addresses. It’s especially comical when I get a “security notice” on one of these accounts. This one in particular is used for my fellow alums to report their upcoming alumni events. Naturally, I have an Outlook rule that takes mail from this mail account and, if it comes from an alumni’s email address, it is moved to an appropriate inbox. Everything left in that account’s inbox is suspect. Financial accounts have their own unique email accounts. SO, be definition, this trash is in the wrong place. I am immediately ‘on guard’! Add to the fact that I don’t have a Citibank account, and I am ready for a laugh. Now this idiot actually has a like to a German site. It’s a good think that they are stupid or someone might actually get fooled.
From: service@citi-bank.com [mailto:service@citi-bank.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 7:08 AM
To: events@jasperjottings.com
Subject: CITIBANK Account Suspended
CITIBANK Update – Account Suspended !
We recently have discovered that multiple computers have attempted to log into your Citibank Online Account, and multiple password failures were presented before the logons. We now require you to re-validate your account information to us.
If this is not completed by August 13, 2006, we will be forced to suspend your account indefinitely, as it may have been used for fraudulent purposes.
To continue please Click Here <http://www.vedbaekgarden.dk/galleri/albums/citi/> or on the link below to re-validate your account information :
http://www.citibank.com/update.html/ <http://www.vedbaekgarden.dk/galleri/albums/citi/>
Sincerely,
The CITIBANK Team
Please do not reply to this e-mail. Mail sent to this address cannot be answered. For assistance, log in to your CITIBANK account and choose the “Help” link in the header of any page.
© 2006 CITIBANK Security Manager
SPAM folder for this one, but it was good for a laugh and a blog.
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TECH: GMAIL burps?
Saturday, August 12, 2006Yesterday, my Outlook, or as I lovingly call it until I get off it, LookOut, started to request a password every time it went to one of my gmail accounts. Arghh. I thought that this was the beginning of one of the infamous LookOut problems. So I started fresh this morning to “solve” it.
- Looked up the correct password. (Paper back up is wonderful.)
- Plugged it in.
- Same problem.
- Logged onto the Gmail account from Firefox. OK!
- Confirms the password is correct and usable.
- Maybe GMailhas “forgotten” I want to use a pop client?
- Bingo!
- Setting for POP is “forgotten”. Reset.
- Retest. A-OK!
Don’t ask me why GMail got stupid? I’m just happy it wasn’t LookOut!
That’s ten minutes of my life I won’t get back!
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