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Ian Matthews

SOLVED: How to Add A Gantt Chart to Sharepoint 2010 Foundation

I figured out How to Add A Gantt Chart to Sharepoint 2010 Foundation last year, but I forgot and it took me over an hour to figure it out again, so this time I am writing the process down.  There are two ready ways to create a Gantt chart via Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 8, 2011 ago

VIDEO: How To Park a Car in a Hurry

Check out this crazy drift parking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAeQ97TOEcg

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 6, 2011 ago

VIDEO: Sex, Lives & Smartphones – Are Smartphones Really Making You More Productive?

This CBC report shows that smart phone users have 21% more sick days.  Always being connected is stressful and has real costs to an organizations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjqtGOpW6RU  

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 5, 2011 ago

VIDEO: Windows 8 User Interface by Microsoft

This Windows 8 video previews / leaks the personalized tiles START screen, thumbs touch / thumbs type ergonmic keyboard At June 1, 2011 — in the D9 Conference, Microsoft demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. A Windows 8-based PC is really a Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 4, 2011 ago

Windows 8 Looks Impressive But May Be Too Different For Businesses To Embrace

6/3/2011 6:00:00 AMBy: Tony  Bradley …Microsoft held its first major unveiling of what’s in  store with Windows 8 at the D9 conference this week. Windows 8 looks bold.  It looks slick. It looks impressively innovative. But, it also looks like it  will be a major battle to convince business users Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 4, 2011 ago

10 Rules For Being a Great IT Contractor Or Employee

It doesn’t matter how you are paid; staff, contractor, agency… you customer will look to you for reliability and that means you need to be more than good, you need to be great. These are the rules I live by and judge others by.  It you want to be a Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 4, 2011 ago

SOLVED: BlackBerry Enterprise Server Not Showing New Exchange Users

If you have ever tried to create a new Exchange user and then immediately add them to BES, you might have found that the new users don’t show up for some time (i.e. a day or more). One solution is to sign into BES and force a refresh via the Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsJune 3, 2011 ago

How to Deploy The Current Version of Adobe Flash using Group Policy in Active Directory

This one is easy: Download the correct version of  flash from Adobes offline flash installer site http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html Copy the .MSI to a location on the network which all PC’s can see Start GROUP POLICY MANAGMENT CONSOLE and right click on the appropriate OU (or the domain root) and select CREATE A Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsMay 30, 2011 ago

How To Deploy Oracle/Sun Java Silently In a Corporate Environment with Group Policy in Active Directory OR Using a Script

After watching THIS video explaining that in 2010, Java was the most exploited product, I decided we need to update our Java to the current version. We came up with two ways to deploy Java; one through a group policy (GP) in Active Directory (AD), two, through a script with minimal Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsMay 30, 2011 ago

Everything I Know About Windows Remote Assistance, Easy Assist and PNRP (Peer Name Resolution Protocol)

I was trying to set up the Windows Remote Assistance tool (built into Windows 7) so that I could remotely control a users desktop and they could watch what I was doing.  I got this to function in about 2 minutes at my house but could not get it to Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsMay 30, 2011 ago

Move Your Virtual Machine (VM) To The Web With Azure

…With the introduction of the virtual machine (VM) role on the Windows Azure platform, these powerful concepts come together to host virtual infrastructure in the cloud. You’ll soon be able to build VMs for Windows Azure and deploy them to the cloud where you can leverage the flexible, scalable infrastructure Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsMay 27, 2011 ago

How to Use the Wiimote (Nintendo Wii Remote) to Turn ANY Flat Surface into a Whiteboard

In case you have not heard of this guy, he is the real deal. He has many such simple projects using consumer grade devices to make amazing things happen. Using infrared (IR) light pens and the Wii Remote, it is possible to create very low-cost multi-point interactive whiteboards and multi-point Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsMay 27, 2011 ago

Why The Google ChromeBook Doesn’t Work

By Ian Matthews, 14 years ago

SOLVED: Why is INSERT, EQUATION EDITOR Greyed Out in Word 2007

… and the answer is, because you are working the old 1997-2003 .DOC format.  Save your file as a 2007/2010 .DOCX format and all will be well.

By Ian Matthews, 14 years ago

SOLVED: Fatal Error C0000034 During Service Pack 1 Install on Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2

If you see the error C34 (below) on Win7 when installing SP1 there is no need to panic: What you need to do is tell Windows to install Service Pack 1 by itself and what that means, is you need to tell it NOT to install other updates at the Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 14 yearsMay 16, 2011 ago

Crazy Funny Dog Tease

By Ian Matthews, 14 years ago

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