Month: March 2007

Is your Media Center system not recording shows properly?

Even if your PC running Microsoft Media Center Edition was fully patched for the daylight savings time change, there is a problem effecting many people where shows that were scheduled to be recorded did not correctly change their record start and stop times.   Thus many people, including myself, have had shows missed.  I’m quite […]

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Great short video – Shift Happens

I picked this up off of Joe Healy’s business blog.   What a great video!  Everyone should watch it.  For those of us who have been around for a while, it just drives home that what we’ve seen so far is nothing compared to what’s coming!    My first home computer had 4k of memory […]

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Problem with your Windows phone and DST?

As everyone nows, the dates that daylight savings time changes have changed.   Cingular, who is my carrier, sent me a sms text message about the fix needed for my 8125 phone.  I installed the update last week with no problem on both of our 8125’s.   This morning, while all of our PC’s and […]

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Ever install Microsoft Office with the wrong key?

This evening I had to get a copy of Infopath 2007 on a notebook to run a toolkit that MS provides.   Unfortunately I used a key that had been used before, and activation was rejected.  It was a simple mistake, and it turns out, easily corrected.   Rather than uninstalling and reinstalling using the […]

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Getting MS CRM updated for daylight savings time changes

This could be quite a project.    If you run a Microsoft Dynamics CRM system, you must go to this page to review and begin working on updating your systems to handle the changes to the daylight savings time laws.  Even if you are in a state that doesn’t follow the DST changes, you still […]

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Updating SBS 2003 for Vista

While many businesses are not planning on upgrading to Microsoft Windows Vista right away, there are certain circumstances where a smaller business may be "forced" to move more quickly than they might normally choose.   In our case, our business, TLA Technologies, Inc. needs to make sure that we’re ahead of our customer’s needs.  So […]

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