Gmail Delete All
Read More: Gmail Delete AllMarking all email as ‘read’ in Gmail? My issue has been the huge number of unread emails displayed on the IOS Gmail icon. There is a great article here on how to remove the annoyance of email status without opening each and every message. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/how-to-mark-all-unread-emails-as-read-in-gmail-and-more/80754
Intuitive Windows Error message #1
Read More: Intuitive Windows Error message #1Intuitive Microsoft Windows 7 error message #1 Working on my laptop this morning I discover an issue with VMware Workstation 9 having uninstalled without any prompting from me. Whats odd is that my laptop was disconnected from power and in sleep mode when this uninstall occurred as starting up VMware was the first activity attempted…
Single Label Active Directory configuration
Read More: Single Label Active Directory configurationIts recently come to light that many of the new Microsoft products will not support configuration in a Single Label Active Directory (SLD), this configuration is where Active Directory domains and DNS name is simply named โCustomerโ rather than โCustomer.Comโ or โCustomer.localโ – this is a fairly common practice for older Active directory implementations where…
Email archiving, E-discovery and poor business practise
Read More: Email archiving, E-discovery and poor business practiseJust been reading this blogpost about a disgruntled customer of Mimosa’s email archiving platform: http://blog.foreignkid.net/2009/11/mimosa-systems-nearpoint-horrible-company-and-relationship-stay-away/ , a very interesting read and it may be one sided but it does go to show how management of a situation could have led to a much better situation for Mimosa. When customer expectations are not being met, a…
The Question of Storage and IT
Read More: The Question of Storage and ITOver the past several years, something insidiously unstoppable has been growing in the Data Centres and server rooms around the globe, we shall call it storage capacity. In the early days storage capacity grew slowly; an application owner might require 10 or 20 gigabytes for their CRM application or their SQL database. The IT manager…
Hah! who says global warming isn’t occurring, speak up?
Read More: Hah! who says global warming isn’t occurring, speak up?Is it, Isn’t it? should I care and can i do anything to slow it down? Its not the normal topic of what I blog about but I just had to put this up; NASA study confirms 2010 is the hottest year on record? http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/paper/gistemp2010_draft0601.pdf Unlike the politico’s who like to deny there is any…
Mac OS X slowdown and repair
Read More: Mac OS X slowdown and repairOur 2.0ghz Aluminum Macbook has ben going slow for months, spinning beachball, lag and generally enough frustration that even my 9 year old son was complaining. If you are experiencing a similar poorly performing Mac, try this tip; http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/durepairfns.html#Anchor-The-47857 Start up from your OS install disk and run a Disk Repair on the Startup disk,…
Microsoft RIP KIN, you never really lived
Read More: Microsoft RIP KIN, you never really livedOn techcrunch today you may see that the Microsoft KIN is to die shortly, ‘She’ never really lived, was a Smart phone without apps on an expensive data contract. Microsoft, your competitors are eating your lunch. http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/30/microsoft-puts-down-the-kin/
FIM 2010 and TEC2010
Read More: FIM 2010 and TEC2010After reading Gil Kirkpatricks analysis of FIM 2010 and what the TEC2010 community what the community want Microsoft to do with the platform, (http://www.theexpertscommunity.com/item/view/id/4410) really interesting to see that customers really just want Microsoft to finish the basics of the platform. Many customers and partners I talk to now are contemplating FIM 2010 or have…
‘The nightmare that was’… configuring a Dell Latitude E6500 as a Wifi Access point
Read More: ‘The nightmare that was’… configuring a Dell Latitude E6500 as a Wifi Access pointRecently as my previous post mentioned, I purchased a non 3G Apple iPad, the WiFi part is sufficient for almost all events I am involved with. This time though I was to be staying in a Marriot Hotel in KL, Malaysia where the Wifi access did not cover all the rooms and all I had…