Wiping my Treo 700w
Just a few short days ago I bought a “new” phone. It was actually a purchase from Craigslist. My contract with Verizon is actually up tomorrow!!! After 10 years of locked in commitment, I’m done (at least until the next really great deal comes along :)
Changing to the new phone was a snap, I just [...]
Wrong Office 2007 Key
Have you ever used the wrong Office 2007 key and find out you can’t activate your installation?
Never fear, Lancelhoff has the answer (and a few others as well), but I thought I’d add myself to the mix.
To change the Office 2007 Product Key:
1. Click Start -> Run
2. Type regedit and click OK
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration
Under [...]
Turn Up IMAP Logging in Exchange 2007
This one took me a little while to find, but there are two ways to modify IMAP logging in Exchange 2007. (BTW, I’m trying to get cross-site connectivity with IMAP to work.)
Open Regedit, go to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange IMAP\Diagnostics and change the General value to something useful for you: 0 (Lowest), 1 (Low), 3 (Medium), 5 (High), and 7 [...]
Emergency Patch Today!
A critical flaw in Internet Explorer (some say Exploder) has been found and patched today.
This is a very critical update due to the fact your system can be affected by just visiting a website.
Go to Windows Update and patch your system!
X-Mouse on Vista
Anyone used to using a UNIX-based OS like FreeBSD or Linux is familiar with X-Mouse.
In short, it changes the foreground focus (window, application or desktop) based on wherever the mouse cursor happens to be. This for many, speeds up productivity a bit by saving clicks (about a nano-second each).
To enable this in Vista, go to [...]
Mark Minasi’s News
It there’s one tech author I enjoy reading it’s Mark Minasi, he has a way of turning dry, stale tech books into something worth reading. Anyway, I digress…
If you head over to his site, you can sign up for his free newsletter. It’s not as regular as it could be, but life isn’t always on a schedule. [...]
Vista SP2
There seems to be quite a laundry list of items coming in Vista SP2. This service pack actually covers Windows 2008 as well, in case you missed that news a while back. The advent of Vista SP1 coincided with the release of Windows 2008 in order to once again unify the kernel, ala NT4/W2K.
What’s in the [...]