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Interesting Reading this week (w/e 25 Jan 2013)

Jan 25, 2013 · 1 min read · dell windows ·

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Interesting Reading this week (w/e 25 Jan 2013)

Some interesting or useful articles, blog posts, and other stuff I looked at this week……
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Microsoft Sculpt Touch Mouse

Jan 25, 2013 · 2 min read · microsoft ·

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A Microsoft Sculpt Touch Mouse turned up on my desk on Friday morning, this is my experience so far.
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How to determine Domain Functional Level

Jan 16, 2013 · 1 min read · active-directory microsoft windows ·

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How to determine Domain Functional Level

Not an everyday task this (once you’ve checked it you can usually remember what the level is!), but here’s how to find the Domain Functional Level of your Active Directory domain and whilst there check for any trust relationships with other domains.
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Quote of the Day- December 21st 2012

Dec 21, 2012 · 1 min read ·

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“keep on trying till you run out of cake.”

Disabling Alt-Print Screen in Evernote with Skitch installed

Dec 20, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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If you’re using Evernote Skitch for Windows you will notice that the Alt-Print Screen key combination now opens up Skitch rather than copying a snapshot of the current window to the Clipboard. Whilst I’m a big fan of the Evernote/ Skitch combination and the clipping, I want to retain the Alt-Print Screen combo for …
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Quote of the Day- December 11th 2012

Dec 11, 2012 · 1 min read ·

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“An afternoon with no meetings is a great sleeping opportunity”

Evernote Skitch for Windows

Dec 6, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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Evernote Skitch is now available for Windows, first impressions of the app on my Windows 7 desktop are good, it’s recreating the simplicity of the Android app very well.<–more–> More details here- http://blog.evernote.com/2012/10/25/skitch-for-windows-desktop-and-skitch-for-windows-8-are-here/

Generating Reports in WinDirStat

Nov 30, 2012 · 1 min read · windirstat ·

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To use WinDirStat to generate reports of disk usage you need to have either Outlook or Outlook Express installed as the reports are generated as an email.<–more–> Without one of these mail clients an “unknown error” message is shown. (found in version 1.1.2.80)

Evernote Clipper

Nov 22, 2012 · 1 min read · evernote ·

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I use Evernote a lot for note-taking, keeping track of ideas, code snippets, conversations, and so on. One of the great added features on the Windows desktop is the Clipper functionality. This is a great screen clipper- by pressing Win-Key and Prnt-Scrn together (on Windows 7, Windows 8 uses that “charm” …

Keeping Digital Photos safe

Nov 22, 2012 · 2 min read ·

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Fairly regularly at work I’m asked what I do to keep my digital photos safe. This question usually comes from someone who’s just had a hard disk failure or similar and lost their photo collection. At home my budget (like most people’s) doesn’t run to a Storage Area Network with fault-tolerant, …
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