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Entries from October 2007

Migrate Data from Goldmine to Microsoft CRM

October 29th, 2007 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

We recently went through an upgrade from Goldmine 5.7 to Microsoft CRM 3.0. It was quite the process moving not only our systems and processes to the new system but also migrating the data from Goldmine to Microsoft CRM. We were lucky enough to have someone working with us, Jonathan Gill, who pretty stinking smart. [...]

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Tags: Applications



Deliver BCC e-mails with Native POP3Beamer

October 29th, 2007 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

To Deliver BCC e-mails from a catch all account using Native POP3Beamer the first thing that we need to do is to determine the e-mail delivery method that your ISP uses for BCC e-mail. Open an undelivered e-mail in Outlook (or your favourite e-mail client like Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora, KMail, Mail, Enourage, etc.) and [...]

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Tags: Applications

Create search plugin for Firefox and IE

October 27th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

By pure curiosity I decided (at 2am last night) to look into creating a search plugin for my Google Adsense Search. Well it was a very successfull adventure. It can be created for any site search, even your personal blog. There are 2 ways of doing it (maybe more) I found . 1 – Create [...]

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Tags: Applications · Programming · quick & easy tips · Technology · Tutorials / Training · Web Browsers



Import excel file to Mysql with PHP

October 24th, 2007 by Alex Costa · 7 Comments

Recently I was asked to upload a whole Excell database into an existing Mysql database. Looking online I found several responses and they had most of the answers I needed but also I had to improvise some coding. Here are the steps I took. 1 – Make the Excell file into a CSV. To avoid [...]

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Tags: Applications · Programming · Tutorials / Training

Trouble Syncronising Blackberry and PC with Bluetooth

October 21st, 2007 by dcouper · No Comments

I recently got a new blackberry 8800 and have been trying to get it to syncronize the data with my Thinkpad T60 (running XP Pro) via bluetooth. Mainly so that I do not have to carry a cable around with me all the time as that really defeats the object of having bluetooth in the [...]

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Tags: Applications · Networking · Peripherals

Show Control Panel as a Flyout Menu in Vista

October 20th, 2007 by Mark5 · No Comments

Ever wanted to see your control panel as a flyout menu in Vista rather than having to click on it, wait for the whole window to load and then sort though the applets? Fortunately, the solution is very straightforward. First right click on the Orb and select properties. Then simply choose ‘Start Menu’ from the [...]

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Tags: Mark's Bits · quick & easy tips · Tutorials / Training