Grrr, for about the 40th time today an application that was supposed to be doing something in the background stole focus. In this latest instance, I was loading QuickBooks in the background while working with Outlook. As soon as QuickBooks prompted for a password, the password window stole the focus from Outlook! A while ago…
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Deborah says:– first we need to go to the beach Deborah says:– then we need a giant gingerbread manDeborah says:– and a towel that looks like a baking panEric G. Harrison says:– In order to have a day at the beach, we must first invent the universe.Deborah says:– "bang"
There are frequent times when I need to get a full path and file name from Windows Explorer into something else. Fortunately Vista has a "hidden" feature built in to make that easier. For example, earlier today I had to point to a Virtual PC hard disk image that I had downloaded when setting up…
I’ve lived through so many of these things. <sigh> The 11th reason is that if you’re sitting at the front desk doing something to the computer, anyone who walks in the door assumes you are the receptionist. It’s funny, when I was CIO at a 550 person company and then Director of Technology at a…
A few days ago, shortly after replacing the hard drive in my notebook (upgraded to 200gig at 7200 RPM, woohoo!) Word 2007 no longer worked well for me. The first symptom I noticed was that when I clicked on the X in the upper right of the window to close the app, it would crash…
Two features that I’d really like to see: 1) Notification email when someone posts a reply to a blog posting. I’ve missed responding in a timely manner to the last two people to reply to my blog. Sorry Joe and Jeff! 2) The feature in Live Spaces that adds grammatical and spelling errors to my…
Last night I had the pleasure of sitting in on Russ’ presentation called "It’s All About The Tools – Episode 1". I’ve sat in on a couple of Russ’ presentations and always enjoyed them, and last night was no exception. He opened the session saying that one of the reasons he does them is because…
Apple has been on one heck of a resurgence over the past several years. Starting with the candy colored iMac’s, through the iPod to today’s iPhone and other Apple products, they have been delivering the goods in the consumer / home electronics space, with only the rare misfire (Cube anyone?). Recently however, my experience with…
Today, after returning from being on the road for 11 hours visiting clients and prospects, Deb plugged her iPhone into her PC (running XP), and without thinking, said Yes to installing the latest iTunes & iPhone update. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, the update didn’t work. It basically bricked her iPhone. I figured…
Okay, so I didn’t do much of anything on my 40th, which was nice (except for the client who kept calling about unimportant stuff no many how many times I told them I was taking the day off unless it was an emergency). The one thing I wanted to do was to get to…