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Archive for April 2007

April 25th, 2007

Not to leave the Mac folks out … Mail.app tips

Being a Windows guy, I don’t really have a plethora of Mac tips.  Well at least OS X.  Ask me about earlier versions and I might be able to help (though my old PowerComputing tower machine is going to become an Ubuntu server soon), OS X, not so much.  I do, however, keep my eye […]

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April 25th, 2007

EverNote 2.0 and Evernote Outlook Extension Beta Released

I’ve been testing EverNote 2 beta for some time now, just a little while ago (last week I think), I got a ping that EverNote 2 was final and I should download the new version (actually throughout the beta period I received notices to update, which I very much appreciated).  Here a portion of the […]

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April 23rd, 2007

Give LeapTag a try for info goodness

I wrote about LeapTag for the Blog World Expo Blog, but if you weren’t following my conference coverage (shame on you), read my review.
Okay, done?  Great.  Now this is a cool tool that, while still in beta, you should give shoot.  It’s different.  It’s interesting.  And I’m finding some cool stuff faster with it.
My review goes […]

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April 23rd, 2007

Some laptop tips for Vista users (okay and others too)

Since I was not only on the road a lot last week, I was at a conference where access to outlets can be tricky, I’ve got some spiffy new tricks for you.
First trick is for Vista users only (sorry).  Hit windows-x (that’s the funky key with the windows logo on it … alone it opens […]

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April 23rd, 2007

No, I didn’t fall off the face of the Earth

Last week I was busy live blogging the Web 2.0 Expo for the Blog World Expo.  Oh don’t worry, I’ve got major coolness for you from the conference.
Just give me a minute … I’ll get the first couple up soon.
 
Technorati tags: w2e, Blog World Expo
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April 14th, 2007

Microsoft releases patch for Outlook 2007, speed boost promised

We’ve been complaining, we’ve been trying to do what we can to improve things (including disabling most fun plugins), but Outlook 2007 has been dogged with performance problems since it debuted (actually in complaints started in beta).  Microsoft has finally released a patch for Outlook 2007 that is supposed improve the performance issues:
Microsoft indicated that […]

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April 14th, 2007

AnchorFree-A free WiFi hotspot VPN solution to do the job?

While I don’t get too security paranoid using WiFi hotspots, I do know that it’s a risk.  Microsoft had been testing a WiFi utility/manager that also had a VPN solution built in.  Unfortunately they abandoned it.  I could probably just keep using the beta, but well … I actually lost it with several machine/OS wipes […]

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April 13th, 2007

Get these system repair tools now, before you need them

My computer crash/panic problems are well documented here.  Sure sometimes it’s been my fault, sometimes not.  Regardless of the cause, there are tools out there to help you out.  Lifehacker’s list is great and believe me, I’m downloading most of the Windows tools (the ones that I don’t already have) asap:
Which one of these tools […]

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April 13th, 2007

TweakVI looks cool, is it worth subscribing?

Slowly but surely more tools to tweak Vista are coming out.  For those of us who just aren’t happy until we know we can tweak and tune our whole desktop experience, this is great.  Today I came across TweakVI.  Here’s the description from Lifehacker:
The software provides a wealth of tools for messing with Vista’s guts, […]

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April 13th, 2007

If you hate Word’s Reading mode … keep reading

While we’re all pretty much forced to use Word, there are some things that, I think, are universally hated about it.  Word’s Reading Mode has got to be #1 in my book.  Typically you “get into” reading mode when you open an attachment from e-mail.  Well the fix is easy:
While looking for a way to […]

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