By: Brian Jackson ITWorldCanada …Proximity marketing involves sending an advertsement to an individual when they get close enough to one fixed spot. Mac’s Convenience will use Bluetooth dongles to push coupons to consumers’ smartphones in a bid to boost sales in convenience stores. Canadians that walk into a Mac’s Read more…
This 4 minute X3 video discusses Qualcomm and Android replacing Intel and Windows (which is not actually going to happen any time soon) and more interestingly that NetFlix is now consuming 25% of North American internet bandwidth during peak TV watching hours in the early evening.
I just spent 20 minutes trying to find a way to “sync” my old Media Center Remote (generation 1 from about 2003) with my new XBox 360 Slim. On my old XBox 360, the remote worked with no setup at all. The answer is that there is no “sync”, you Read more…
Well, I wrote the Install BESx on a Single Exchange 2010 Server last year and I am pleasantly surprised that RIM has since developed an excellent interactive instruction “tutorial”. Other than the first few items, I will keep my numbering related to that “tutorial” and that will make my instructions much shorter: Read more…
Intel recently released the new NM10 chipset which enables the newest Atom CPU’s, the dual core + dual hyperthread N550, which support 64 bit Windows. I already own an LG x110 with a very nice Atom 270 (roughly the same performance as the Atom 450) and I wanted to know Read more…
I met a girl in the park the other evening. There was an instant spark between us and she immediately dropped to her knees and laid on the grass at my feet. As we lay making love, I thought ”These taser guns are well worth the money.” NOT by Eric Read more…
Yes, Windows Server 2008 R2 DC’s are allowed to be on Server 2008 (R1) based domains as long as you do NOT raise the Domain/Forest Functionality Level. Instructions: Below is the process: Install Server 2008 R2 on some hardware, install all service packs and hot fixes Join the new R2 Read more…
Lets start with the word NO… By: Jeff Bertolucci “… ABI Research says the netbook market will not be “gravely injured” by the iPad and similar tablets, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook. “This is a rumor perpetuated by Apple fanatics,” wrote ABI Research mobile Read more…
When attempting to add users to a Sharepoint 2010 site I found I could not find domain users, only local ones. After 3 hours of goofing around, this is what I found. I was getting the following: Requested Registry access is not allowed. Correlation ID: 39aea029-6545-417d-9534-8b8bcbc892aa Date and Time: 12/6/2010 Read more…
Problem: Every day or so since the summer of 2010 I receive the following email from my Exchange 2010 server: “Microsoft has released new versions* of the Forefront/Antigen product that you are using. These new versions include the new Kaspersky 8 antivirus engine, which replaces the older Kaspersky 5 antivirus Read more…
WebApp vs Site collection. This is a confusing issue: Basically a WebApp is a container for sites. Each Web Application must contain at least one Site Collection. Each Site Collection can contain more than one site A site is usually shown as a tab in a Sharepoint page. This applies Read more…
Background: I am a Sharepoint 2010 novice but I have spent considerable time banging through 2010 in recent days and below is information I will need in the future to perform installs at other client sites. Perhaps you will be interested in some of this. If you want more of my Read more…
I am a Sharepoint 2010 novice but I have spent considerable time banging through 2010 in recent days and below is information I will need in the future to perform installs at other client sites. Perhaps you will be interested in some of this. If you want more of my tips Read more…
Ok… this is what I blew my morning on and man that is not cool! (scroll immediately to the bottom if you just want the easy fix!) I created a new Webapp and Site Collection in a fresh Sharepoint Foundation 2010 server running Server 2008 R2 Standard 64 bit and found Read more…
To be direct the answer is disable Samsung FAST START program. Samsung’s own software overrides Windows 7 POWER OPTIONS settings and greys out several options, including: REQUIRE A PASSWORD ON WAKEUP POWER BUTTON AND LID LID CLOSE ACTIONS POWER BUTTON ACTIONS SLEEP BUTTON ACTION FAST START is enabled by default Read more…
Microsoft cautions against “administration” of the Windows Internal Database (WID, formerly named SQL Server Compact Edition or CE) in articles like THIS one. However, there are time when you may want to gain access to it for things like: database moves (because the SQL WID is installed on C: whether Read more…