July 2004 - Posts
Dunstan Orchard has released Version 2 of his blog and he's really pushed the envelope on blogging software. With a long list of features and a flowing interface, I believe he's set the bar on what a blog could/should do. The experience plays best in Mozilla FireFox.
I love the panoramas!
[via redemption in a blog]
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Neil Turner talks about some of the new features that have been added to the most recent FireFox build. The most popular features mentioned will probably be the Gmail Notifier and the LiveMarks.
Livemarks are a cross between aggregation channels and bookmarks - Live Bookmarks if you like. If a page has an RSS feed, a lightning icon appears in the fourth box on the status bar, and clicking on it lets you choose a Livemark to add to your bookmarks. The livemark then appears as a folder, with its items as bookmarks in the folder. It’s quite a basic but potentially useful function. Incidently, it also supports Atom feeds.
Can't wait for FireFox 1.0!
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- Go into Outlook 2003, Export Contacts into an MS Access file.
- Zip up file, send file to new computer to use for communication
- Open up Outlook 2003 on new computer, click Import and select unzipped MS Access file
- Wizard selections: Import from another program or file | Microsoft Access | Allow duplicates | choose folder
- Click Finish, Import runs
All of your contacts' emails are missing. The default mapping of fields between the Access file and Outlook does not map the Email fields. Before clicking Finish in step 5, you need to go back to the end of step 4 and click Map Custom Fields and specify that you want the Email to be imported as well. I don't know about you, but that email address is the most important field to me when using my email program...
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I just read a post on Ed Bott's blog about helping a non-programmer clean up their computer. Ironically, I did spend some time this weekend cleaning up my parents computer. It must have somethiing to do with the whole July 4th, Independance Day(US) idea. "Break free from spyware and viruses!"
Here's the expanding tune up checklist:
- install anti-spyware software and configure it to run automatically on startup. I use SpyBot Search and Destroy. [I've been using Ad-Aware]
- enable their existing Windows Xp firewall, just turn it on
- give them anti-Virus software (or install the free version of AVG)
- run diskcleanup and defrag
- lower the size of the IE cache [crazy bugs happen when this gets full]
- turn the security in IE up (for ActiveX controls) or install FireFox [I just installed FireFox]
- Get the latest patches from Windows Update and turn on Automatic Updates.
- Grab the utilities from Gibson Research Corporation that disable unnecessary Windows services (like Universal Plug 'n Play and Windows Messenger service).
- go back to GRC and run a free Shields Up! scan to see how well protected the PC actually is.
Credit goes to Scott Hanselman, Ed Bott, and Marc Orchant
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