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Skype error #3601

October 13th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

After an update to the latest 3.5.xxxx version of  Skype a lot of people (I’ve seen 3 including myself) are having problems starting up Skype. It crashes with the error#3601 which apparently has nagged the application for a while. Some say it’s a Video drive problem, same say it’s Windows fault but it looks like [...]

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Print Job Doesn’t Delete on Windows

October 9th, 2007 by Alex Costa · 3 Comments

Isn’t it annoying when a printing job fails to print and when trying to delete it from the queue is gets stuck and you can’t print at all! Well I get many people asking me about this. Something I have done and works every time is resetting the Print Spooler Service. This is very simple [...]

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FTP client for Mac OSX

October 8th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

I friend of mine, had long suffered to find an easy FTP client to use on his Mac. He tried several but didn’t really find an FTP client to work well. He kept on using the FTP connection via Dreamweaver which is also a bit of a pain. I tried to use Finder as a [...]

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Email Marketing with Lyris ListServer

October 5th, 2007 by Alex Costa · 2 Comments

Lyris is one of the biggest email marketing systems out there. I was very well impressed at a recent conference at the level of detail in testing, tracking and deliverability of Lyris. Email marketing has become a major marketing field and still a lot of big companies are either not doing it or doing it [...]

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Easily insert email addresses in MS outlook

September 28th, 2007 by dcouper · No Comments

When composing a message in Microsoft Outlook there is an easy way to insert an email address in the to, cc or bc bar. Simply start writing a couple of letters of the email address or name of someone in your address book and then if it does not show up as a quick option [...]

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Play DVD on SLED 10 (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop)

September 24th, 2007 by Alex Costa · 2 Comments

For legal reasons Novell ships the SLED 10 with no DVD support so for my new laptop it was a disapointment. Well, Playing around with it I’ve now installed 3 programs that add DVD and Win32 support to SLED 10. You don’t need to install all 3, just one of these will do the job [...]

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