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February 25th, 2007

Arrggghhhh!!! Living in Tech Support Purgatory or Why you need to be nice to you geek

Okay the saga of Lorraine’s boss’ computer continues.  Thought I had it set.  Nope, couldn’t get the spiffy LCD monitor to work (worked great on my machine, including doing the extended desktop thing, which is tre cool), but I thought I had it licked.  Yeah, right.  Yep Blue Screen of Death coming back.  Random shutoffs […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

February 24th, 2007

Saturday morning humor–Time to upgrade to Rock Vista

You know, adding humor into your life is probably one of the best work pimps we can suggest.  If you can’t laugh at the silliness of work sometimes, well you better keep that bottle of Maloxx handy.
This morning, I have a cartoon from Blaugh.  Since I’m going back to fix the machines at the garage […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 21st, 2007

Find new Vista drivers on RadarSync

Upgraded to Vista and just a wee frustrated finding drivers?  Yeah, I’m with you.  I spent something like an hour looking for drivers for my built-in card reader.  RadarSync is trying to help out:
Don’t waste your time searching dozens of vendor websites every month for the driver updates you need.Just bookmark this page and come […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 20th, 2007

Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007, and it’s still free

Last year Microsoft released Virtual PC 2004 as a free download.  At the time I didn’t see much point.  Today Microsoft announced it’s successor Virtual PC 2007 and, yes, it’s still free.  Yeah you might be wondering about Microsoft’s motives in all this.  So was Wired and this is what they had to say:
For the […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 20th, 2007

Mindsystems ThemeReader–An exciting new add-on for MindManager

 I got an e-mail from Tom Hodgers today.  Remember him?  Yeah he was one of our contest winners.  It sounds like Tom has been getting into MindMager and told me about a really cool new MM add-on called ThemeReader.  Here is how Mindsystems describes it:
Mindsystems ThemeReader™ is the latest edition to the MindManager® family of […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 19th, 2007

Is your Computer Ready for Daylight Savings Time?

Did you know the daylight savings time is coming a month early now?  You bet, it starts in March now, not in April.  So the big question is, is your computer ready for this change?
If you’ve made the switch to Microsoft Vista you’re OK.  Microsoft has already updated Vista for the new daylight savings time rules.  […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 16th, 2007

Updates, get your updates here…

One of the most important things you can do to keep your computer, and applications, safe and happy is to keep it updated.  Back in the day, when the Internet was young and I was doing tech support, finding updates wasn’t fun or easy.  We pretty much had to do a lot of the work […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 16th, 2007

Download needed to save as PDF or XPS in Office 2007

One of the anticipated features and Microsoft office 2007 is the ability to natively export files as PDF or XPS.  I was looking for this feature today when I needed to send off an invoice but couldn’t find it.  Luckily a quick search in help gave me the answer right away, I needed to download […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 15th, 2007

How to get to your programs faster in Windows

How long does it take you to get to the programs you use everyday?  Should really be two clicks at most, and there are two easy ways to do this built into Windows without needing to install any extra software.
Sure there are programs like Launchy, but I’m on a path to keep my new Vista […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

February 14th, 2007

Windows Vista saga continues — I’m loving Vista!

 When we last left off, I’d set up a dual-boot partition for XP and Windows Vista.  It went pretty well, I was able to use both XP and Vista.  But no matter how hard I tried and using all the tips and tricks I found, I still couldn’t get the audio to work in the […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments