Posted on March 1st, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Google have recently released a new product bundling called Google Apps.
It’s a product bundling which includes:
email via Gmail
calendaring via Google Calendar
instant messaging via Google Talk
online word processor
online spreadsheet
web page creator
simple web-based admin consoldes
Another important point is that Google allows you to run all of the above on a domain name of your own choice. […]
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Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
I’ve used a quite a few RSS aggregators/readers in the past.
After trying out both software based and web based solutions around a year ago, I ended up choosing the web-based BlogLines. Part of the reason for this was the ability to access my RSS feeds from anywhere - even from an internet kiosk. […]
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Posted on February 26th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
We all have our favourite set of management tools which we can’t live without.
I have been a long time fan of the SysInternal utilities, and have used them to death at almost every customer site I’ve worked at.
It seems that Microsoft agree with me, since they aquired the SysInternals company a few months ago.
The tools […]
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Posted on February 25th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Microsoft have been working hard the last few years on Windows Vista. On February 1st 2007 Microsoft finally released the various editions of Windows Vista to the general public. They didn’t get the mad midnight openings with hundreds of people just waiting to pounce when the retail store doors were opened. The […]
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Posted on February 24th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Those of you who have been using NT based Microsoft operating systems would all be very familiar with the good old boot.ini file which is normally on the root of your C: drive.
Boot.ini is just a plain text file, which can relatively easily be modified and tweaked.
With the release of Windows Vista, the boot.ini has […]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by Ron Bertino
In order to assist you in digging out content that’s buried deep in the abyss of your hard disk folders, many players have come to market to try to be the dominant desktop search provider.
The main players are: Google Desktop Search, Yahoo Desktop Search, Windows Desktop Search, and Copernic Desktop Search.
I have used them all, […]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by Ron Bertino
There are many times that you’ll need to use a decent graphical editor in order to manipulate graphics. It could be needed for touching up screenshots for demos or documentation, a Powerpoint presentation, graphics for a web site, or even covering up that ugly pimple or whitening those yellow teeth on your favourite self […]
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Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Last month I hit my monthly download quota for my current Internet Service Provider account and ended up getting throttled down to a measly 64 kb. It’s funny how infuriating it can be when you’ve been throttled down and you know that there’s nothing you can do until the following month. It doesn’t […]
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Posted on February 19th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
Microsoft technologies keep getting more and more powerful. In order to keep tempting you to upgrade to a new release, each new product version comes out with dozens of new features.
With so many features availabe, it becomes a challenge in having to correctly configure these feature-rich (and sometimes complex) products.
Microsoft keep trying their best […]
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Posted on February 9th, 2007 by Ron Bertino
The first bunch of free extras for Windows Vista Ultimate users recently became available for download.
If you’re running any other version of Windows Vista, then you’ll just have to get on by without them. Where’s the love Microsoft?
So what’s in stock for you in these updates? Here’s the list:
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