Archive for December, 2007
I need to open a port on my router or firewall. How do i do that? What is that? Should I Be Scared??
New Years is almost upon us and the Admin needs some rest – maybe a day off? Yeah right we have even more emails today! This has been a big year for the AtA gang – stay tuned for more of our geeky flavored content in 2008.
Our reader Diego has an application on his computer [...]
So are you wondering why you would want to save your searches?
Think about it – How would you like the ability to dynamically find the items you need with a saved search? So the boss called and said – I need all the purchase orders less than a months old and tagged Smith?
How about Power [...]
David here again to put you on to a dope pair of Bluetooth heaphones. I found a pair that made me me do a double take. I looked at them, looked at them on myself in the mirror and then looked at the price!
The Jaybird JB-100 headphone is a Bluetooth capable headset that sports a [...]
Have you ever heard the saying – the best thing since sliced bread? Well how about one better with some toast?
That’s burnt toast – a CD/DVD burning suite from our good friends at ROXIO. We had a contest for the PC side now we want to show some Mac love so, Mac users it [...]
I just came across this in my daily browsing and had a pretty good laugh over it. Finally something Mac and Window users can team up against! LMFAO – don’t worry no actual Linux users were hurt in this clip…
[Via AnythingUnderTheBlanket From DuelingAnalogs]
So got any other funny pictures or tech humor to share with your [...]
If you have a NTFS partition from Windows 2000, XP or Vista there are times when you can not format it using the normal methods like another OS’s installer. It can be a real pain in the ass. But AtA has been through this MANY MANY times and we know of an old school solution [...]
Our answer to this one comes direct from Microsoft and the answer (as always) is YES you can!
They have built in there shadow copy or previous versions from Server 2003 into Vista Ultimate. What that means is that Vista keeps several copies of your files (or at least the changes made to them) and if [...]
Does anyone else remember lusting after a small video camera in the 80’s? How about an 80’s show called Small Wonder?
No? Damn young whiper-snappers…
Next thing you will tell me you never played Maniac Mansion! Well RCA brings us this slim practical video camera with the same name as that 80’s show we [...]
Since I am visiting my wife’s family for Christmas, I have of course been roped into doing computer service for them along with the rest of her family. That doesn’t really bother me too much though because I love this stuff.
Well, on my wife’s aunt’s new computer she has Windows Vista Home Basic. I haven’t [...]
I love Firefox. Mainly because it isn’t from Microsoft, but also because it is more secure that Internet Explorer, and has millions of cool plug-ins and skins so you can customize it. Your Firefox browser can be as individualized as you want it to be.
The one thing I can’t stand about it is it will [...]
Happy Holidays to AskTheAdmin readers celebrating this holly jolly time of the year. Sorry about the re-run guys we will be back with fresh content tomorrow… So stay tuned.
This must be what a real Microsoft fan boy dreams about…
How long before Billy Gates and his winged henchmen send a cease and desist letter?? Hope everyone [...]
Our answer comes to us from Guest writer, David Fried. Stay tuned for bio info on David and other AtA guests like Daniel from HackYourDay…
The Mac and PC compatible Eye-Fi SD memory card flawlessly adds Wi-Fi to any camera and boasts a respectable 2GB of memory. The free Eye-Fi service supports uploading to numerous photo [...]
After a week out of the office at my Mac OsX server training I am totally swamped. Throw in holiday shopping, a new baby and AtA… Whoa boy!
So Sunday’s post will be a quick roundup and excerpts from my two newest posts on MakeUseOf and a couple of AtA faves.
I demoed and reviewed Mint.com. [...]
A few days ago I was trying to set up WordPress on my domain and since it’s in Hungarian – Fantastico my webhost’s auto-installer couldn’t quite cope with it. I needed to install it manually.
At the end of the process I got a random password. Of course the inevitable happened. I forgot to change it [...]
There sure is! hField Technologies’ Wi-Fire is a compact high-performance USB Wi-Fi Adapter for Mac and PC that extends the Wi-Fi range upwards of 1,000 feet. Being a college student, I am blessed with a blanketed campus, offering a strong Wi-Fi signal wherever I go, right? …. Well, wrong. Dreaded dead spots exist and, [...]
In honor of my second Mac certification course today I will be featuring a Mac Slash Pc question. Marky Mark needs to be able to attach a PC hard drive with NTFS partitions and transfer the data to their mac (where we will be connecting the drives). In the end we want to see [...]
John wrote in that he dropped a screw into his HUGE server case as he was about to seal it up. Now who wants to take it apart again just to get that stupid little screw? It sure looks like the good fellows over at ThinkGeek are in our heads because they have a solution [...]
I Did something pretty cool the other day that I think AtA readers will appreciate.
I Had a hard drive die on a guy in the accounting department. Lets just say he does payroll for the company and I still want to get paid!
Cyclical redundancy check failed was the message. BSD on boot, all that jazz.
Yikes….Used [...]
Yes, we know you have taken a million digital photos over the last year, on your fancy shmancy new camera. And we also know the holiday season is upon us. Being the geek that you are, you could not just leave your pictures named digital_image_13456.jpg for your slide shows… We just couldn’t have that now, [...]
If you are like reader Miguel and you want to reboot your Windows XP or Vista machine from a .bat file, here is the command to do it:
shutdown -r -f -t 0
LifeHacker showed you this command here advertising it as a fast shutdown command.
shutdown -f -t 0
Be warned – it forces apps to close even [...]
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. [...]
Have you seen the latest commercial from Apple for the Mac? It is the same PC versus Mac concept except the characters look like they are straight out of the “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” animated classic.
I am not a Mac user, but I know a lot of you are out there are. Either way, [...]
The Admin gets LOTS of packages and some are easier to open then others. Who am I kidding? They are all ridiculously hard to open!
I got my review OpenIT in the mail today to do all my un-boxing bidding. Guess what? It was sealed in fricking plastic. I need one of these OpenIt’s to open [...]
Craig was a little confused last night and very agitated. He wanted to know where his Run command was on his Vista Ultimate machine.
You know it used to be on the start menu in Xp. You can still bring it up by hitting Windows-R but, you want it back where it belongs – on your [...]
We get a lot of emails from people about why their new office 2007 files end in a X. People have sent in questions asking about why their files are in the archive format or formated for Mac OS X…
Microsoft has introduced new file types in 2007 (The X Stands for XML) if all you [...]
We just heard from our friends at Walyou that Divx is feeling the holiday cheer a little early and giving away free copies of Divx Pro. Now you too can compress your home movies, recorded TV shows and anything else just like the professional bootleggers!
I love Divx Pro and bought mine eons ago. Divx makes [...]
IBM Lotus Notes is one of those Slashdot topics that polarizes opinion into Peace, Love or War. I’ve worked with Lotus Notes since it’s third release and host a Domino Blog (http://www.LeadershipByNumbers.com). I’m in the Peace camp and with the latest release, Notes Domino 8 (ND8), I think the Linux community may have found true [...]
Jacob asked us if he could reference a whole cell range by label in excel. He continued on with how much easier it would make his life. Jacob today’s your lucky day because it looks like you can!
Thanks to LifeHacker for the answer to this one. You can reference a column by its header or [...]
They lit the tree outside my office yesterday and turned on all the bright colored street lights! I love this time of the year. And let me take this opportunity to thank you guys! Yes you! Give your self a pat on the back. If it wasn’t for you there wouldn’t be a need for [...]
So we learned recently that Microsoft has made great strides in allowing you to rename a domain in Server 2003. They have provided a tool but remember this CAN NOT be used on a Windows 2000 domain and will cause you lots of problems.
With this being said here was the situation:
A company was [...]
I know, I know you have heard it time and time again “This magic doo-hickey will automagically make your cell phone work where it once could not.”
It’s probably right up their with get rich quick schemes and increasing your web sites traffic a hundred times over for free.
We have used those stick on strips in [...]
So you have the same repetitive searches you run every day? How about you let Google run the searches for you and hit you with any new sites that have popped up since your last search? This is great for almost anything! All the PR companies we deal with use this habitually.
Just go to http://www.Google.com/Alerts [...]
Could you carry on a conversation about the impending spectrum auction if someone were to strike one up with you? Do you know what the spectrum auction is?
Don’t worry about it, most of us can’t and don’t. Not to worry though. Scott from AndroidGuys is here, guest-blogging for AtA to explain a little bit [...]
Have you been a busy little bit-torrenter lately?
Do you have tons of ISO’s laying around? Trying to mount them in Vista like you were used to in XP and not having any luck?
Our reader Tom in Wisconsin is and this sounds like a job for dum dum dum (key theme music)… AskTheAdmin!
Well it turns out [...]
Hey Boys and Girls,
We’ve had the honor of meeting up with the guys over at Gelaskins. Their products were one of the more popular products at the CES pre-show and Digital-Life Show, mainly because of the sexy designs they use for their Gelaskins. Really wicked stuff. But there’s more to Gelaskins than meets the eye. [...]
The age old question has been answered!
Paul over at Bauer-Power.net posted this and it answers one of todays questions. Remember this goes against ANY agreement you agreed to when you click I Agree. With me? Check it out:
I found a free utility that can extend your trial software…indefinitely! You know the software I am talking [...]
Are you ready for some unauthorized Mac goodness? Would you like to easily get into someone’s mac? Apple makes it easy as pie (no pun intended – honest).
If you have The Mac OS DVD then you can boot to it and reset account passwords! As far as I know this will work for Panther [...]
The rules of the Administrator account changed in Vista. Did you hear? What do you mean you didn’t get the memo? It was between TPS reports and all.
Before Vista, the Administrator account was not hidden out of the box and most users used an Admin account for their every day work. Vista did away with [...]
I am in the middle of a three day stint at a training center in SoHo Manhattan. The difference is this time its re-education, brainwashing if you will. The higher-ups have got me at Mac training in a school called NovaWorks. Support Essentials Mac OS X taught by Sam Valencia.
I am in a support class [...]
6 months ago today you enjoyed our top post of the month:If you loved the last IT warning sign we posted here… Then here is another one for your Thursday morning enjoyment:
Am I the only one that finds this hysterical to hang in a computer lab?_TheBigBrotherAdmiN_
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This is just hilarious, and I am sure it was just a joke, but that doesn’t make it less funny. This question came from Yahoo! Answers where people can ask question for just about anything. I sometimes drop by to answer questions and help out the best I can. This one was the funniest. I [...]
So you have a website or a blog and it takes forever to load but you have no idea if it is your 800 images or your mp3’s playing in the background or wait…
Maybe its the 192 scripts you have running. Sound familiar?
Well we got a free website for you!
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/
From Their Site:
Try our free web [...]
So, you have come to the right place to search for advice on what to get that geek in your life for the holiday season.
Read on, because we have compiled a list of what we salivate over bought ourselves want.
I don’t care if you are celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus (for the [...]
We spoke with Corey Fruitman a while back and gave their Remote Support Software a test drive round the virtual block. We had our say and submitted some feature requests and here we are revisiting it with a new version number.
It is more or less like the ultra VNC Single Click we showed [...]
So am I the last one to know that you can do FULL out blogger administration via Windows Mobile 6? I had set up a post email account a while back that let me type an email send it off and it would be saved as a draft ( you can set it to post [...]
A website we read Hackaday posted this interesting piece last week on how to use Google as a password cracker.
If you don’t know what md5 hashed passwords are then this isnt for you and you should stop reading (Check back in a bit for a piece of password cracking) or see what they are here.But [...]
This came in this morning, from our buddy Peter. I knew there was a way to do it as I had modified mine to do just that. But would be damned if I could remember how.
Karl, Hope things are going well with you and baby. Here’s a question maybe you can post on the site [...]
We got an email from our buddy Jay from Mosio.com and he was having some problems with Word 2003. Check it out below:
______________________________________________________Hi Admin, I have a question for you – Word crashed on me, and now when I start it up, it says If I continue, I get the following: [...]
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