Category: Technology

  • Back in Jun04, I was up at Microsoft for work participating in a security conference.  One of the tours that was setup for us, was of the Innovation Center and while waiting for the tour to start, I spent about 15 minutes with hands-on a Windows XP Media Edition 2003…

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  • Update#2: There is a fix … read Using Firefox with TabletPC. Back in Nov04 I wrote: I think that FireFox is not TabletPC aware… I am not getting the standard popup window but had to use the toolbar option (input panel). Update#1: Here is a picture of the icon you…

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  • I just posted 16 new items via kunal.org’s MTOutlook tool to what I call my Outlook site.  These are items that I thought were interesting, but either I don’t have time to do a shorter summary review or it is something I want to be able to find later. I…

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  • Jon Udell does a great job of introducing remixing (making things more focused or shorter), plus some options on how to embed time code information into an audio file.  To make it even more interesting, the file he used for the demo is a really cool dialog between Elvis Costello…

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  • I think I have a problem with Windows Media Player 10 and how I am trying to use it with my Samsung Yepp for listening to podcasts. For me (control freak), I do not have any automatic synchronization setup.  I basically walk down through the playlists created in Media Player…

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  • The 16th Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast has been posted to: TechRagTearOuts_016_050125.mp3 (2346.4K). The outline (OPML file/link TBD) of the show in HTML is: (00:00-00:40): Introduction – 16th Edition of the Tech Rag Tear Outs Podcast (00:41-01:30): Sample music from Billy Watson (billywatson.com) (01:31-01:57): Show Overview (01:58-05:27): Some conferences of…

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  • Everyone seems to rave about the Aeron chairs.  Even Chris Pirillo recently mentioned them in his Blog Business Summit review.  But if you to talk to people who know chairs, they aren’t that good for sitting in for long period of times.  My work got me one.  I sat in it for…

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  • Hurray! Less work for me!!! I "tore" out of one my favorite tech rags – Network World Fusion – an article entitled "Vulnerability alerting services free up expensive IT security staff" (01-24-05), and had planned to mention it in a future Tech Rag Tear Outs podcast. But … now I…

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  • I have been reading 43 Folders since early Dec04, and it is pretty good site for getting new ideas on how-to-do David Allen’s Getting Things Done (Getting).The author has listed some "decisions" on how a vendor might get their tool or product evaluated via his blog.  His write-up is pretty…

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  • "Creating a PowerPoint Presentation from Access Data: This sample creates a slide presentation using Access data. A Recordset object is created from the data in a table. The data from that recordset is then used to populate a slide show."

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