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What’s your Social Networking IQ?
  What is the best way to judge social networking IQ?  In my mind its not necessarily your knowledge of social networking from an academic perspective, nor is it your knowledge of the technical implementation and networks of social networking Read More...
INFO: What I’m Running
Every now and then I like to update folks on what I’m running on my hardware.  Below you’ll find information on what my hardware is and what I choose to run on it. Here is my newest rig info: Hardware Lenovo T61P 4 GB of RAM SATA Optical Bay Adapter Read More...
HOWTO: Enable Visual Studio 2008 Remote Debugging
See this link for methods to enable Remote Debugging: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx Read More...
RELEASED: Windows Search 4.0
Here is a link to grab the bits for Windows Search 4.0 for all editions of Windows (including Windows Server 2008, Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Home Server) http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=940157 Read More...
Architecture of the Charran eHome
Charran Home Infrastructure and Media Strategy This article has been a long time coming. However, I have always been pretty excited to write about what I think is a pretty cool home infrastructure for entertainment and computing. My entire strategy regarding Read More...
Searching IE History with Windows Desktop Search
This add in found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918998 will allow the searching of IE browser history. It works for the following OS installations: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or a later version Microsoft Read More...
Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map
This application is a thick client that lets you interact with all those nifty development and office posters that most folks like to hang up in their offices. Its a click once application built on WPF. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/office/bb497969.asp Read More...
Stephen Cohen's Love Curve for Software Projects
I'm only capturing (stealing :)) Stephen's Cohen's Love Curve out of sheer respect for his observational ability to capture the aggregate of IT projects when it comes to client interaction. This is an utter truism and I have been on both sides of the Read More...
Ink Blog Plugin for Tablet PC Users
Download from the URL below: Ink Blog Plugin Read More...
New Windows Mobile Traveler's Toolkit
I might be late on this one also, but I just love sidebar gadgets. Check this one out for travellers: http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=247a812c-7b75-48fe-9d81-014fced67528&pl=1&bt=1 You can get clock, weather and other information Read More...
4.3.1 Insufficient System Resources in Exchange Server 2007
I recently was helping a client troubleshoot why they couldn't receive mail. The server was running fine, they were able to send out messages and even reboots on the server didn't seem to resolve the issue. After looking through the event logs, etc, we Read More...
Rename a Domain Controller
Just so I don't forget (and for your benefit too), here is the method to use to rename a Windows 2003 domain controller: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/aad1169a-f0d2-47d5-b0ea-989081ce62be1033.mspx?mfr=true Read More...
Like My New Banner?
Changed up the old blog banner. Amazingly, I saw how powerful PowerPoint 2007 has become in creating custom art and great images. The reflection you see in the image, as well as the gradient buttons with the highlights were created with about 3 clicks Read More...
Great PDF Previewer
Great PDF Previewer courtesy of descapa's One Note blog: View PDF files from within Outlook 2007’s previewer Read More...
Cool Sidebar Gadgets
Check out my Office 2007 Recent documents sidebar gadget: I downloaded this from the MSWindowsLiveGallery Profile Author's page at http://gallery.live.com/Author.aspx?a=470e25d8-e8d0-4100-924b-abf9f4cf777d&l=1 Also, of note is the Live Search gadget. Read More...
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