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I Want the Dell Inspiron 13 - but Not in Australia

September 9th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I have been saving and planning on purchasing a new laptop. Laptops from Dell have always been high on my list of laptops and I had been interested in the Dell Vostro 1400 laptop, but Dell Australia changed the warranty options for their Vostro laptops (no CompleteCare past the first year), so I was instead [...]

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Tags: Laptops



Console and PC Game Skills Training

September 6th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

If you have ever had your but whipped by your 5-year old son, or some young punk online, you might want to have a look at Gamertrainer.com.
Gametrainer.com provides training for anyone wanting to improve their gaming skills. They will work with anyone from first time “newbies”, to “professional” gamers. They provide training for these games:

Battlefield: [...]

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Tags: Site News

Automatically Forward E-Mail in Microsoft Outlook

July 31st, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I quite often get asked “How do I automatically forward my e-mail in Microsoft Outlook?“. You can forward e-mail using Microsoft Exchange, but it is better if the individual users can control their e-mail forwarding. that way they can turn it on and off without having to ask the system administrator to do it for [...]

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Tags: Applications



Upload a File to your Ning Social Network.

June 27th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 1 Comment

If you have a Ning Social Network you will find that there is no easy place to upload a file to your Ning profile or the pages. There is no file depository or folder system that is accessible by the user, or even network administrators or creators.
The easiest way that I have found to upload [...]

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Tags: Social Networking

Mac OS System Error Code 1712

June 27th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 2 Comments

The Mac OS X System Error Code -1712 is a bit of an ambiguous one as all that it means is that the application has timed out.
We got Error Code -1712 when we tried to run Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection on one of our staff’s Macbook.
To diagnose this error in more detail we opened up [...]

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Tags: OS & Servers

How to Create an E-Mail Alert in Microsoft SharePoint Services

June 23rd, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 1 Comment

It seem that every quarter I get a dozen or so questions about how to get e-mail alerts when someone responds to a SharePoint Survey, or creates an announcement on our Windows SharePoint Services 2003 Intranet.
To save myself having to show people all the time, here is a video tutorial on creating an e-mail alert [...]

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Tags: Applications