January 5, 2010 - 10:51 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Questions | 19 comments
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 [...]
January 3, 2010 - 12:52 am
Tags: General
Posted in Questions | 18 comments
You know the saying, “You can’t have too much RAM or too much storage.”
Well, there is at least one case where a lot of RAM can cause problems.
My current desktop had 1 Gig of RAM and I recently bought an additional 2 Gigs since the price was so low. (And of course I used [...]
October 26, 2009 - 6:30 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To | 9 comments
As avid Windows users you have seen how applications add right click menu options. For instance Mcafee antiVirus adds a shortcut to Scan For Threats in the selected folder or Resco’s options to encrypt or de-crypt a folder.
Now you want to add useful right click options for yourself and AtA is here to show you [...]
October 15, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, How To, Tips/Tricks | 5 comments
Everyone knows your friendly neighborhood admin is all about shortcut keys and uber productivity.
I don’t know how I never found this one before… Check it out you have your quick launch buttons displayed next to your start menu for easy access.
By default you have Show Desktop, IE and whatever other applications you installed. Now you [...]
August 11, 2009 - 12:52 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To, Reviews | 15 comments
We have used many different retail programs to recover accidentally or maliciously deleted files off of our PC, Digital Camera or Mobile device. We have tried a few free ones and they bring us back to the old saying… You get whatcha pay for! As such we never really covered the topic here on Ata, [...]
July 30, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Reviews | 10 comments
We have reviewed Crucial Memory in the past here when we gave away a 2gb memory module to one of our readers. So we were happy to plug them again when Jenny from San Fransisco wrote us asking:
Yo Admin can you tell me what kind of memory is in my PC without me having to [...]
July 24, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in Admin's Arsenal, Free Download | 6 comments
Do you hate looking for and downloading drivers on every re-format?
Well if you can get to your desktop you should be able to run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your fresh clean formatted system! We covered something a little while [...]
June 1, 2009 - 12:00 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To | No comments
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 Point [...]
April 16, 2009 - 7:56 am
Tags: General
Posted in How To, Questions | 5 comments
This morning we had a request for adding a “High Priority Folder”.
This would be a top level folder that shows up on your Windows desktop and in My Computer. Didn’t think you could do that? Well read on…
The folder we will be creating can not be removed – just like My Computer or My Documents. [...]
I had the pleasure of attempting to migrate a print server this weekend. I mean I had to figure out a quick and efficient way to install the 70 some odd printers on a new server. I was not going to be doing this manually that was for shit sure! I had some junior admins [...]
And see that red circle – hover over the boss key and automagically this document replaces what you were reading with a screen with no browser bar and this productivity crap:
Do you have a pointy haired dilbert-esque boss out to get you? Do you have a better plan of action for combating people who want you to be productive?
March 13, 2008 - 6:28 am
*THAT* is brilliant! Excellent for catching up on my blog reading, not great for graphic heavy pages though.
Now, all those savvy web folks need to do is design an option for Word 2007, and remove the address bar along the top. I see from your pics that you do not show the address bar, this may be and IE7 thing.
Great find, ATA. Thanks.
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March 13, 2008 - 6:36 am
I am using IE7 as well and it seems to kill my address bar. Anyone else having this issue? Must be a setting in there somewhere?
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March 13, 2008 - 6:57 am
Another good option is to browse away with a quick fix to hide your surfing.
Check out the firefox add-on called "Panic" : Productivity and Networking Information Component. Install this add on and whenever you see the tyrant coming your way press Ctrl+tilde (button below escape and above tab on most keyboards) and all of your tabs and current window are killed and replaced with a page you set. The default is a google search on how to increase productivity, something your boss should appreciate!
Works like a charm, and its better than simply minimizing or closing all tabs b/c minimizing does not eliminate the evidence and closing all tabs leaves you with a blank screen which probably looks worse.
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March 15, 2008 - 1:38 pm
Have you checked out borwser called Ghostzilla? If I remember correctly it could be opened on any application and it would go invisible as soon as mouse was moved away from browser window.
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