What to do when you get the Windows Defender expiry message Come back to your computer in 2007 and you’ll probably see a message about the expiry of Windows Defender – Microsoft’s anti-spyware tool for Windows XP. Windows Defender was in public beta testing for most of 2006, despite it’s
A suggestion for configuring IE7 to make your screen less messy Internet Explorer 7 finally brings tabbed web browsing to Windows XP (and is supplied with Windows Vista). The default settings mean pop-up windows still appear in a separate window on the screen – that’s probably done so IE7 acts
From: Sydney Morning Herald Great expert tips on photographing fireworks The New Years fireworks in Sydney Australia are justly famous – the compact harbour plus landmarks like the Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House that are illuminated by a series of displays throughout the evening. If you’re in town it’s well
A web site that will convert your .docx file into fairly raw text. If you get a .docx file and can’t convert it, one free option is http://docx-converter.com/ This site will take a .docx file and return the text with formatting. The features have improved a lot over time –
The MSDN news feeds commonly seen on Sharepoint sites will end in early February 2007 but there is an alternative The MSDN news headlines are supplied with Sharepoint 2003 and commonly used on Sharepoint home pages. That service ends in February 2007 – from 6 February there will be no
From: Microsoft Expression Web shipping, Expression Media announced; latest technology previews deliver product and new platform advancements with first CTP of WPF/E. REDMOND, Wash. — Dec 4, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced significant product line enhancements along with pricing and availability of the Microsoft® Expression® Studio for creative professionals.
A clever little spoof site having a little dig at Microsoft. You may start seeing references to ‘Microsoft Firefox’ with very sincere icons and even box shots. Check it out at http://www.msfirefox.com/ Gotta love the time and effort that goes into spoofs like this with lines like: “delivers a
How to make free overseas phone calls from the USA Update: Futurephone’s service is offline at present. It seems other phone companies have blocked access to FuturePhone’s access number. You can check out their web site to see when/if the service resumes. Futurephone has been getting a bit of publicity,
About those messages from MySpace users. One of the more recent phishing campaigns impersonates the Myspace web site. If you see messages with a subject like: “New message from [name] on MySpace … “ it is trying to trick you into clicking on the link. The messages have nothing to
Survey shows those stock tip emails actually work. One of the more common uses of spam is to promote a particular stock in an effort to boost the price via these false disclosures. This trick was especially popular during the Internet stock boom when people were eager to get in
Spam has several meanings. The producer of the canned pork product Spam has lost a bid to stop companies using the word ‘Spam’ as a nickname for unwanted email. The name ‘Spam’ originally meant ‘Spiced Ham’ back in 1937 when Hormel Foods Corp. started the product. In the 70’s Spam
From: Peter McDonell Utilities to save and restore the Windows desktop icon positions. I find I store (temporarily) more and more links on my desktop – my memory jogger. And what a bugger it is if something glitches and the entire desktop full of icons relocates automatically to fill the left
Tesco – the big UK retail chain is to release their own office suite. The big UK retail chain, Tesco’s has announced that they will start selling their own Office suite as a competition to Microsoft Office. The office suite will be part of a range of new products sold
If you want to be at the cutting edge of server matters there’s a new beta version of Exchange Server available. If you want to be at the cutting edge of server matters there’s a new beta version of Exchange Server available. Exchange Server is Microsoft’s mail hosting service that’s
From: The New York Times Some interesting photo tips from Michele McNally from the New York Times ‘Talk to the Newsroom’ is a Q & A feature in the New York Times which, this week, comes from Michele McNally their Assistant Managing Editor for Photography. Aside from the journalistic questions,
The latest incarnation of Google Desktop Search is now available. The latest incarnation of Google Desktop Search is now available. If you already run GDS you might have seen a prompt to update automatically or you can download from desktop.google.com with your current indexes preserved. There are few obvious changes to the
Google has released their online calendar program and for a first effort it’s very impressive. GOOGLE CALENDAR AND OUTLOOK Google has released their online calendar program http://calendar.google.com and for a first effort it’s very impressive. As regular readers might know, we’re not big fans of this headlong rush to Internet
One of our favorite Powertoys gets an update. SyncToy was released as a beta in early August 2005 and we had a full review of it in Office Watch #10.31. Since then, the Microsoft developers have collected feedback and released a version 1.1 with some welcome features including: Support for
You can take OpenOffice (an MS Office rival) on the road with a USB key. The open source Office suite OpenOffice now has a portable version, something that MS Office does NOT have. Portable, in this context, means having the programs and data stored on a portable drive (most likely
We look at Google’s long-awaited instant messaging client “Google Talk”. A big move by Google is its long-awaited instant messaging client – a direct competitor to Yahoo and Microsoft. IM offerings from these two companies and from others don’t interact with each other resulting in a mix of technologies and incompatible
Directly view the travel itineraries created by travel agents or airlines. Almost all the travel bookings you make either directly or via an agent get placed on enormous mainframe computers. In recent years these computers have become available to the public, but travel agents and airline like to keep it
