Archive for June, 2009
Google Waves is making um… Waves!
Jun 2nd
Have you seen this video yet? If you can not view the flash video below the link to the video is at http://wave.google.com. And just an FYI Google Wave is the number one searched for term this week on Google.
If you haven’t already I suggest taking the hour and 20 minutes to watch this. And we would love to hear your comments on it!
Thanks SlothMan for sending this on over!
InstantHouseCall Free Version is awesome for family support.
Jun 2nd
Check out http://www.instanthousecall.com and install their free Remote Support tool. It really is awesome and saved my ass yesterday when I needed to connect to a remote Vista machine on the fly and my Single Click Vnc just wasn’t doing it! What do you guys use for remote support? We would love to hear your favorites in the comments.
HP’s dx9000 TouchSmart Computer are making huge waves!
Jun 1st
We at AskTheAdmin.com LOVE cutting edge technology! And when we first got to play with Microsoft’s surface I fell in love! Then I saw the outrageous price tag and put it out of my head. Now HP is working on some realistic and amazing technology. We are going to be checking out and reviewing their dx9000 in the near future along with having a contest to give one of these guys away.
The Marriott Airport Hotel in Nashville recently installed two HP dx9000 TouchSmart systems at their concierge station in the lobby. The software application they’ll be using was developed by HP partner, Nashville-based technology company Uniguest, and offers travelers and hotel guests a revolutionary, custom-branded user interface with advanced security that allows users to access real time flight arrival/departure information and also print their boarding passes.
The whole concept behind using these in the business world is customizable applications that are developed and power the machine. That means these devices can do anything you want them to and really anything you can imagine. Check out this video below and let’s hear your thoughts on them!
Windows Live Writer Errors out on posting. Invalid Server Response.
Jun 1st
We all know that I love me some Windows Live Writer. It is my blog editor of choice. Armed with that and Jing I document, screenshot and post the hell out of stuff over here and on http://www.makeUseOf.com. Today I was taking some screenshots of a new website I will be reviewing called http://www.doodlerBlog.com. Long story short…. My WLW was returning the following error every damn time I tried to post my draft. I tried posting it to several other WordPress Sites and I had the same flucking problem!
I found out I could view the log file by going to Help – About Windows Live Writer – and View Log.
Once there I found this log:
Can I save my searches to reuse them in Vista?
Jun 1st
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 Presentations created by your partner in the past two weeks?
All of those with the letter z in the title?
Just the ones with the word NEW in the file name? We see your creating crazy searches and we know you hate to have to recreate em’ each time. Do you want to make it a little easier on your self?? Save them searches!
You can do it easily! Just follow these steps:
- Browse as normal to Start Search.
- Type any characters in the search box (a star works great because, as a wildcard, it won’t restrict the search once you save it)
- then click Advanced Search. Modify the fields however you want and when you are satisified,
- click Save Search.
From Microsoft‘s Website:
Depending upon how often you search for a certain group of files, you might want to take advantage of Windows Vista’s new Search Folders, too. These are searches that run instantly when you click them—you don’t even need to insert a search term after the first time you run a search and save it.
You can use the preconfigured searches that Windows Vista offers, such as Recent Documents (which shows you all recently used documents on your computer), or you can set up your own searches.
To set up your own Search Folders, click Start and click your personal folder. In your personal folder navigation pane, click Searches to bring up the program “searches.” Click the program and the Search Folders window will appear.
Next, type in the information that you want to search for in the search box at the top right of the Searches window. In the example shown here, I typed in Microsoft. Then I clicked Save Search to save the search. Now, the next time I’m looking for information related to Microsoft, I just click my personal folder and select the Microsoft search from my Search Folders.
And you now have a custom search saved for you! You can set up several of them for your most popular search terms. Anyone else using this out there in Admin land?
