Recently we acquired a nice Tandberg Video Conferencing system, we normally stick with the Sony range as its menu interface is very easy to use, but we decided to give Tandberg a try. What a beast, great slick menu system, loads of options, built in MCU (Multipoint Conference Unit), 2 XLR mic inputs (Phantom [...]

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I usually use Wink 2.0 to create free tutorials on my computer. However this week Techsmith, the makers of Camtasia Studio, are making Camtasia Studio 3.1.3 available for free download.
You can download the software at http://download.techsmith.com/camta…amtasiaf.exe
You will still need to register for a free registration key when you install the software, as I discovered when [...]

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Put Windows Terminal Server into “Maintenance” Mode
I find that quite often if I am having to diagnose a problem on our Windows 2003 Terminal Server my users continue to log on and try to work. If my maintenance requires rebooting the server, or running diagnostics on the server then this can cause problems for the [...]

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Using Remote Desktop Connection to access a remote computer whilst away has been around for a bit, but what if you want to connect to a Mac from a PC or vice versa – or want to access your Windows/Mac machine from Linux?
I came across a bit of software recently that seems to seamlessly allow [...]

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Sometimes when I have logged onto our Windows 2003 Terminal Server there have been over a dozen idle sessions. Many of these sessions have only been idle for short periods of time, but often we have sessions that have been idle for many hours, and sometimes even days.
Today I decided to limit the amount of [...]

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Recently my Compaq Presario v4000 completely died. On boot it would simply give me one long beep, followed by two short beeps. This appeared to be a video card problem.
In a desktop computer this would be an easy, and relatively cheap repair. One of the challenges with laptops is that in most laptops the video [...]

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