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05 Apr 2009
Having spent a good part of the last couple of days doing some housekeeping and updating on my Samsung Omnia I had a bit of an issue late last night. The Omnia is aimed at doing everything (hence the name), but last night I owned an Oblivia. I’m not sure quite what happened but I think a disagreement between Windows Vista and my Omnia may have been to blame.
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04 Apr 2009
A little while ago I posted about some ways to reclaim memory on a Windows Mobile device. The reason for this was that the main memory on my Samsung Omnia was almost at zero and it had been a fairly common occurrence. I’ve spent a little while recently trying to get a Skype client working on it and installing it to anywhere but the main memory seemed cause a few issues. Today however I’ve had a good day working on the phone and I’ve managed to not only get the latest version of the Skype client running from storage rather than main memory but also found a few additional ways of getting some more control over the main memory.
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30 Mar 2009
We’re currently working with an organisation to assess some virtualisation options on our network. In order to gather some information on our existing estate we’re running the VMWare Capacity Planner. This is an ‘agentless’ piece of software that monitors server utilisation and uploads data to a central repository on the web.
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29 Mar 2009
A few days ago I was speaking to one of my users about creating some PDF files from Microsoft Word and securing them so that they can’t be copied or printed. Rather than using expensive software from Adobe or a generic creator like CutePDF I recommended using the add-in for Word 2007 that Microsoft provide as it provides some useful accessibility options (thanks to JISC TechDis for highlighting that one to me).
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28 Mar 2009
Armed with my folder browser script I finally finished rounding out my script to clone / duplicate a folder structure.
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28 Mar 2009
Have you ever wanted to use the browse for a folder dialog box from your VBScript? Well maybe you can make use of this function? It’s an amalgamation of various other scripts tailored to my own needs so hopefully it’ll suit your purposes too, but if not just tweak it until it does.
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26 Mar 2009
I’ve been looking at a number of broadcast technologies recently like Adobe Connect and Instant Presenter. Several months ago I came across Dim Dim and in essence I have been fond of this Open Source option as it offers free meetings for up to 20 users and it is constantly being developed.
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19 Mar 2009
Microsoft Exchange is a fairly ubiquitous system for handling e-mails and I made a surprising discovery today whilst amending a user’s mailbox storage limits … they don’t get updated straight away.
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17 Mar 2009
After spending a bit of time looking at service desk records today I had the opportunity to look at a particular request where a SharePoint user wanted to include links to files on other web sites in a document library without uploading the file onto the SharePoint site. This is actually a really nice idea as then if the other site is updated (assuming the URL remains the same), the latest version is always accessible via the SharePoint site.
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17 Mar 2009
It seems that drop down lists are the in thing at work right about now. One of my colleagues dropped by with a query about creating drop down lists in Word 2007. So this is how to go about doing it…
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