Archive for September, 2007
Win your free copy of Nero 8 Here
We met the good guys over @ Nero during Digital Life and they hooked us up with a copy of the soon to be released Nero 8.
After playing with it for a bit and letting it handle my daily burning shenanigans – All I have to say is [...]
Jodi writes in:
I wasn’t sure who I should contact about this, so i am sending this to you. As of late, word attachments coming from my friend on a Windows XP Machine appear as “winmail.dat” files.
When I try to open these, the text runs about 150pp long, (it’s a 4page doc) and the [...]
Ted writes in:
I have 2 physical drives drive 1 has a c: drive, a d: drive and a e: drive which is bootable. The second drive has a f: drive that i use for storage. My machine needs to be reinstalled with Windows. Before I do that how can i merge the 3 partitions on [...]
I walked into Digital Life @ The Javits Center and said whoa! This show is massive and has all sorts of awesome technology for you to sample and play with. I was only able to do the quick once through but will be heading back over later today. Here are some of the sites we [...]
I entered the world of technological goodness yesterday afternoon as I walked into the Javits Center in Manhattan for Digital Life 2007. This show is MASSIVE! I only had a little while to do a quick run through with the rest of the press and media guys.
I noticed that their is a HUGE presence by [...]
IBM/Lotus has fired a shot across the bow of MS at their flagship Office.
I give you Lotus Symphony!
Totally free and easy to download @ 136MB for the file.
Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org and the Eclipse framework and is meant not only to give consumers and businesses an alternative to Microsoft Office, but also to promote [...]
If you loved the last IT warning sign we posted here… Then here is another one for your Thursday morning enjoyment:
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Hello Ladies and Gents,
I decided to take a quick break from compiling LOTS of intel gathered today at the DigitalLife Press-only preview at the Javits Center. Basically I didn’t want to leave any of our faithful readers, who have come to expect AskTheAdmin to be on the cutting blade-edge of technology, hanging. As we’ve mentioned [...]
Every time a machine gets put in front of me that needs to be formatted I first have to backup all the user’s personal data. I can’t see their passwords for their IM or Email accounts – So how can I retrieve it? We have covered programs that reveal the password behind the Asterisks before [...]
My wife got me the new HTC Device Dubbed the Cavalier with a Dopod Branding and imported it from China for my birthday… Migrated my information over night and replaced my dash on the charger with this Dopod – NOW THATS LOVE!
I have had this bad boy for almost 3 weeks now and it’s just [...]
My co-worker Todd just put me on! I used to hate opening PDF files because they bog my system down as they are opening and I just never really took to them. Now there is a program called FOXIT that replaces Adobe’s PDF reader and it is SUPER FAST! It has add-ons that also allows [...]
Chances are if you are asking this question you are installing a RSS reader. No we are not clairvoyant we just know…you know?
An OPML file can be used for several things but the most common is a formatted list of your rss feeds that can be used to import and export them from/to your favorite [...]
Commodore and I trekked over to Splashlight after work last night to check out the NYC Technology Week Start off. We got our press badges and hit the bar. There were a few exhibits and some attempts at speeches. Now you tell me – put a bunch of tech loving geeks in a room with [...]
As we are getting hyped for the kick off of Digital Week in NYC we scored an interview with Monica Vila. She is the Vice President of Consumer Marketing for Ziff Davis (That’s the company that brings you DigitalLife in all its geeky glory!). She got all of your questions, about DigitalLife, answered below along [...]
So Apple casually announces modified iPhones might get bricked in the next update. And for those of you who don’t know Bricking = Bad! Bricking a device is in essence making that shiny uber device into a fancy paper weight or BRICK…
Apples says that any running of 3rd party applications voids your warranty. Sound familiar? [...]
Maybe I am just a geek but Technology Week is upon us in New York City with the biggest event being Digital Life @ The Jacob Javits Center. Think of it like a technology Woodstock without the drugs, sex and dirt. Clean geeky fun if you will. It will be full of Virtual Reality and [...]
Have you ever brought up a Open dialog and thought to yourself -
Why can’t I copy the path of a file/folder directly from explorer? The Microsoft boys heard ya because here it is on your context menu!
It doesn’t work in XP but… now it is an option, in Windows Vista.What you need to do is [...]
This post should start by informing you that I consider myself an RSS addict. I need my information and it doesn’t matter if I am mobile or in front of a computer… I need to be connected.
I have been using RSS on my mobile phone for along time now. It seems like I have tried [...]
I hate the default colors in Windows XP. Don’t get me wrong, blue is a fantastic color, and I certainly don’t want to offend anyone whose favorite color is blue. I just like to be different.
Changing the default color is pretty easy though. All it takes is a few changes in the registry. Of course [...]
Hey boys and girls!
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished you could sync calendars with somebody who is seemingly unconnected? On top of that, you wished that somehow, by some magical force, those calendars can sync automatically, wirelessly and invisibly; involving no further effort beyond the initial configuration, and that this calendar [...]
I hate level one tech support with a passion… there has to be some magic words to escalate me to level 3 technical support or @ least to someone who knows what they are talking about!! Anyone know what those magic words are?
Did I mention I was on the phone for 3 hours – [...]
We’ve all seen it, and we are all annoyed by it. We are particularly annoyed when we have 20 windows open and are multitasking like monkeys in a banana tree (that doesn’t make any sense does it?). Anyway, that annoying prompt can be turned off with a little thing called Group policy. The cool thing [...]
I got an email from Lindsey and a second one from Eugene it seems they are both having the same problem. They set up a Gmail account and then grabbed the gmail pop settings which you will see below. But outlook and outlook express just is not playing nicely…And for all of our mobile users [...]
Is Google going to lay fiber across the Pacific Ocean joining America and southeast Asia? Ads for hiring a Submarine cable negotiator to work for Google might just make this a reality. Here is some information… Let you Speculations run wild. We found the following article from several sources the most reliable being Engadget and [...]
SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. Sugar easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. SugarCRM’s open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to [...]
A bunch of our readers happen to be big fans of the Gizmodo’s Jason Chen AND happen to be HUGE Family Guy fans… Go figure Right?
Well Jason was bashing Family Guy this morning but put up an AWESOME clear clip of Lois and a pseudo Cleavland R2D2 with a bit of a tech support [...]
This is my first post as an Ubuntu user. Let me give you the story how I kicked my Microsoft addiction. Well actually my computers had an intervention!
The Admin has been through computer hell these last few days. First my Dell Latitude X1 refuses to charge… So I have been trying to be savvy [...]
In Part 1 we’ve seen what can cause a BSOD and what information we can collect after it happens, so we could investigate the problem.
Well, Microsoft gives us the Debugging Tools for Windows toolkit.
Go to the link, and download the latest version that is appropriate to your system (i.e. x86/64bit).
This toolkit allows us [...]
Hey There Cheapskate!
So you say Microsoft has pulled a fast one on you? You have been running office 2000 with no complaints for 5 or 6 years now. What’s that? They are forcing you to upgrade because you can’t read the fancy smancy new file formats? They are something like docx and xlsx…
Don’t fret, you [...]
I’ll keep this quick, but my professor in school for my security class (who happens to be the same professor for my Capstone class) pointed out something interesting with the new version of Spybot Search and destroy (Version 1.5).
After you download and install all of the updates, and run immunize, check your hosts file. If [...]
No matter where my Preggo Wife and I are for the last 7 months or so we see babies doing cute things. We have dubbed the condition baby on the brain… Now since I got my new phone I have a similar affliction – HSDPA on the brain… I have been amazed at this whole [...]
Here is a picture of what your network rack should NOT look like! I would hate to have to trace cables from the patch panel to the umm whatever other equipment is under there! Looks like it might be time to get a cable management solution!
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We’ve all seen it before… Suddenley the screen turns blue and an error appears saying something like “it appears you won’t be going to sleep early tonight…”
Luckily there are easy ways to make some sense of that technical jargon MS gives us in a case of a BSOD.
First lets TRY and understand what can cause [...]
If you were a reader of the once Digg-like version of netscape.com, you will be interested to know that it is now called Propeller.com.
This comes after many rumors that AOL was going to drop the web 2.0 format of Netscape.com to pursue something else. Now if you browse to netscape.com you will get a news [...]
So lets say your hard drive is like my desk – cluttered as (…insert witty remark here…)
Everything is scrambled and spread out. That invoice is not next to the check nor the clients file. But wouldn’t it be helpful if we did that? Would it save time? This is the same general principal behind defragmenting. [...]
Normally I would push you to a website or firefox plugin with group passwords like from bugmenot for access to NYT premium content. Not anymore, because The New York Times will stop charging for premium content. I figured this was going to happen a long time ago but, better late than never! Right? They will [...]
So who’s ready for Zimbra to go mainstream? It might just become reality. Looks like Yahoo is scooping them up for a measly $350 million.
We have covered Zimbra here and here, here and here. The first article is a link to their free test drive where you get the feel for their product. A lot [...]
This is kind of stupid, and pointless in this day and age, but it’s kind of interesting none the less. As you may (or may not) know from my last post I have been fighting with Gentoo, and trying to overcome my kryptonite (Which I finally did by the way). Anyhoo, during the install [...]
This one caught me by surprise! I don’t know if it is my lack of sleep, after those conference calls at 3am this morning, but I was ROTFL. Don’t let me cloud your judgment, here is the story – you be the judge…
I was walking down Wall Street this morning on my way to work. [...]
The time has come for those have waited patiently. We told you it would and here it is – The FREE iPhone software only unlocker from our good friends @ the iPhone Dev Team that have been working on this from the get go.
That’s going to put a damper on the people trying to make [...]
So Another work week is behind us and here are a bunch of great posts you might have missed out on. In addition we have DigitalLife, in New York City, coming up which we are very excited about. We have some stories coming to you about some GREAT new services that are appearing on the [...]
I have recently fallen in love with having outlook run batch files depending on what an email from me to me says.
They say necessity is the mother of all inventions and it is certainly true. I have been using a WM 6 device with no blackberry support and popping a pop3 account on the run. [...]
I know the feeling of your secure network being compromised by an end user… Passwords do fall into the wrong hands and then what do you do? Scenarios start running through my head and I make a mental list of all the passwords and system configs that need to be changed. These aren’t fun times [...]
I had someone ask me to get them a second copy of office 2003 for their shiny new laptop. Seeming I bought both the machines and the software I knew the machine was already loaded up and good to go. I mean come on would I give them a machine just so they can [...]
So you hear tech support stories and say to yourself… Yeah right, that’s pretty funny but, I doubt it really happened.
Well, I bring you The True Tales Of End User Stupidity (t cubed o.e.u.s. – pretty catchy eh?) that will have you peeing in your pants or bring a tear to your eye if you [...]
I just unboxed my brand new Dopod HTC aka HTC Cavalier S630 and after a few tweaks my demo was FLYING on HSDPA ATT’s Network. I did a quick post on the Dash’s big brother a while back and it still isn’t released in the US of A. Yup this baby came right from China [...]
So you get the call… “Hello Karl? My, um, computer doesn’t work. I think I broke the Internet. Can You Help? I can’t open any of my porn pretty pictures!”
Well first I have them check the Internet connection by trying to go to Google.com or CNN.com. If they have Net we are good to go [...]
We are working on a project in my Capstone class at school. In this project we have to create a Windows 2000 Active Directory Network. It’s pretty straight forward.
Well, when doing the updates I decided I would use Autopatcher to make patching all of the hosts a cinch. I didn’t take into account one thing…. [...]
At my first I.T. gig, we had users in the field all of the time. remote sales folks, and also remote service agents which required them to travel an awful lot. They worked out of their homes, airports, Starbucks, and hotels. Though they weren’t on our network, they still needed support.
Among other tools for remote [...]
How the hell has MS remained such a big player in software is beyond me with product videos like this to ’sell’ their products….
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