Archive for January, 2008
Posted in January 30th, 2008
I just read this article on CIO.com about the best BlackBerry shortcuts. It’s a pretty big list, 39 total. Here are the 20 that I found most useful and I hope you find them useful as well:
Typing Shortcuts
To capitalize a letter with one click, hold down the letter key.
To insert a period, click the Space […]
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Posted in January 29th, 2008
Error message: “A connection to the deployment share (\\server\deployment_share) could not be made. The deployment will not proceed.”
I ran into this problem this morning when trying to load Windows XP on a new computer using Business Desktop Deployment and Windows Deployment Services. It turned out that the reason for this is because my WinPE boot […]
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Posted in January 22nd, 2008
From ABC News: Peter Scharr, Germany’s data protection commissioner, said that when someone is identified by an IP Address then it should be regarded as personal information. Google disagrees with this argument and insists that an IP address merely identifies the location of the computer and a user does not always use the same […]
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Posted in January 21st, 2008
Here’s another one…
A laptop containing personal information on about 600,000 people was stolen from an officer in the Royal Navy, the U.K.’s Ministry of Defense said on Friday.
The laptop contained information about new and potential recruits to the Royal Marines, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force, and was stolen in Birmingham last week, […]
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Posted in January 20th, 2008
A backup tape containing personal information of 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and about 100 other retailers went missing. Social Security numbers of 150,000 customers are stored on the tape. The missing backup tape was not encrypted…
The information was on a backup computer tape that was discovered missing last October. It was being stored at […]
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Posted in January 14th, 2008
As you may have already heard, Microsoft is planning to stop selling Windows XP to OEMs on June 30, 2008, forcing users to switch to Windows Vista. But there are still many users out there who prefer XP over Vista. If you’re one of these people, please click here to sign InfoWorld’s petition […]
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Posted in January 10th, 2008
Computerworld published this article a couple of weeks ago about the 8 technologies that experts think will be very hot this year. Here’s the list:
Virtualization
Automation
Integration
Real-time Collaboration (tools such as Google Docs)
Web 2.0 (blogs, wikis)
Ideation (I honestly have never heard of this term used in technology before, but it sounds like it’s basically just a […]
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Posted in January 9th, 2008
Reg Hardware posted some pictures and diagrams of the connectors for the upcoming version of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) shown at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2008) in Las Vegas. USB 3.0, also known as ‘SuperSpeed’ USB, will be able to transfer data at speeds of up 4.8Gb/s, ten times faster than the […]
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Posted in January 8th, 2008
This small program from Microsoft lets you open a command window (cmd.exe) by right-clicking on a folder or a shortcut to a folder. When you right-click on a folder, you will see an additional option named ‘Open Command Window Here’ and that would open a command window with the path already set to that folder.
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Posted in January 7th, 2008
Virtual Desktop Manager is a nice free little application from Microsoft that allows you to use multiple workspaces (up to four) at the same time. This tool is very useful if you normally work with a lot of applications and windows open. I’ve always wondered why Microsoft never included this as part […]
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