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Upload a File to your Ning Social Network.

June 27th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 7 Comments

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 · 6 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 · 4 Comments

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



Delete All E-Mail in Gmail Older Than 1 month

June 13th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 1 Comment

We maxxed out our gmail account that we use at work, so overnight people were getting the e-mail bounced back to the saying:
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently

PERM_FAILURE: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the [...]

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Tags: Applications

Batch Delete Delicious Bookmarks in Bulk

June 11th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · 3 Comments

I was sorting through my del.icio.us bookmarks this morning and realized that for some stupid reason I had imported all my Firefox bookmarks into my del.icio.us bookmarks. Since I use delicious for my public bookmarks, and not for private bookmarks at this time, I had over 400 bookmarks that I wanted to batch delete.
The only [...]

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Tags: Social Networking

Dell Laptops Available at Office Works in Australia

May 16th, 2008 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

I was in Officeworks this past weekend picking up some stationary for my son when I noticed that Officeworks now sells Dell laptop and desktop computers.
Although the practice of Dell selling computers in retail outlets has been common in North America for a while, it is a first for Australia. This change represents a large [...]

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Tags: Laptops