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October 2005 - Posts

Level flight achieved by skydiver.
Im a skydiver and find these sorts of things AMAZING! I friend of mine (Jezz) recently moved to Finland. He has teamed up with a guy called Visa who has just achieved level flight in a wing suit & two small jet engines attached to his feet. NO I AM Read More...
Bill Gates vs. Napoleon Dynamite
If you liked the movie check out BillG in action: http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2679657 For one reason or another it seems this has found its way onto the internet. Read More...
Take WSS folders offline (& in sync) without purchasing anything.
I have had a number of queries from customers about the simplest way to take a folder of documents that are stored in a WSS site offline with them when the leave the office, and keep those folders updated when they get back into the office. Well … without Read More...
Mindsharp's FREE Deleted Items Document Library Custom List Template
Posted recently: http://mindsharpblogs.com/todd/archive/2005/10/06/719.aspx This looks like a cool tool.... great that there is no server side install, easy to use and is an amazing showcase of what can be done in WSS with out of the box components like Read More...
Joel is blogging...
And about time too! Joel has a wealth of real world SPS/WSS experience from running the internal deployment of these products at Microsoft. http://spaces.msn.com/members/joeloleson/ Read More...
Another great addition from the MSIT group...
From the same group that brought you the "SharePoint Recycle Bin v 1.0" .... the Cross Forest People Picker 1.0 "This picker requires and leverages the profiles in SPS for adding users to Windows SharePoint Services sites as a replacement to the Outlook Read More...
AfterMail, Email & KM
Yesterday I was treated to being shown v.Next of AfterMail … all I have to say is WOW … they are doing some really amazing work. For those who don’t know what AfterMail is: it is the hottest contender in the email archiving and compliance space right Read More...
New improved SharePoint Recycle Bin released!!! (must have)
One of the most frequent questions I get from customers is around a recycle bin for SharePoint. This is not functionality that you get Out of the Box (OOB). OOB you need to go back to a backup to retrieve a deleted document (this is being sorted out in Read More...
Peter Jackson, Windows XP, Apple & Media Center
Was catching up on some Production Diaries from the King Kong movie on KongisKing.net and noticed a couple of things: PJ had an Apple Cinema Display running off a Windows XP machine ... with what looks like an HP Media Center PC IR reciever (circled in Read More...
How to do a screen capture in Media Player
I wanted to do a screen capture from Windows Media Player and was having issues due to the use of Overlays. This post came to the rescue ... pointing me to the right place in WMP to turn off the use of overlays. http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/03/capture-images-from-windows-media-player Read More...
More on Peter Jackson, Weta, Microsoft and Wellington, NZ
More info coming out on the Halo movie. Local buzz is building. I for one have been a Jackson fan for a long time ... i rember being freaked out as a kid after watching Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles ... great classic gore movies. So ... very exictied Read More...
You know you are old when ...
... You go to a Black Eyed Peas concert ... and everyone holds up cellphones instead of lighters. Oh how times have changed. I must be getting old. Read More...
Non-Collaborative My Sites
Bill has a good post on My Sites here . There is some confusion about what the 'Create Personal Site' and 'Use Personal Features' permissions allow/dont allow. This post is a pretty good little summary on what Bill calls Non-Collaborative vs. Collaborative Read More...
Offile Folder Sync SharePoint libraries
Ian pointed me to this little utility by digi-link. Great little app for offline library syncronisation: http://www.digi-link.com/revelation.html Read More...
Halo 2, Peter Jackson & Wellington, NZ
Great to see that Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are going to be Exec Producers on the Halo 2 movie. Even cooler is that many of the visual effects are going to be created by Weta in Wellington where I live. (also commonly refered to these days as Wellywood). Read More...
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