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7:46 pm so it's been just under a month and i'm at about 20 wpm on the dvorak keyboard. it's coming along and i can already tell this will soon make me a faster typer than i ever was on the querty layout. i am going to take some speed tests...
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If a user-defined function (UDF) is created prior to creating a stored procedure, object dependencies are properly listed through sp_depends. However, if you create the stored procedure first, then later create the UDF (which is allowed due to delayed...
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i’ve been using my daskeyboard for a couple days and if you miss the feel of an old school electric typewriter, you’ll really enjoy this mechanical keyboard. today at lunch i modded (slang for modified) my keyboard on my acer 1420p. this little...
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yesterday was april fools day (or the beginning of my wife's birthday month) and the pranks were flying online. here are 10 of my favorite this year. 0. my wife woke up to say there was snow on the ground - she forgot i had already been outside to...
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mike verta was kind enough to remind me of a classic mechanical keyboard that can be ordered with no inscriptions on the keys. i just ordered the das keyboard ultimate model silent which will help in learning the dvorak layout (no reason to look...
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there are a lot of things we take for granted in a full version of an operating system. i’ve been interested in learning the dvorak keyboard for years, but only recently have i been spending time learning it. imagine the increased security...
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typically there is version information displayed in the lower right hand corner of windows in pre release versions, but there is a quick way to display the desktop version information on your computer by changing a registry key. windows 7 service pack...
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I get asked all of the time for some kind of checklist from Microsoft that you could run through for an Exchange Server 2010 deployment. One of the best tips that I can give anyone as far as the deployment of Exchange 2010 is to use the Exchange Server...
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have you seen this? one of my favorite outlook 2010 features is the microsoft outlook social connector for facebook. there are also connectors for linkedin, myspace and windows live messenger . what caught my attention recently was the...
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i can’t believe we’re only a month away from the students involved with technology conference! i attended last year with my son sam. sam will be presenting again this year – on office 2010, 2011 and the office web applications. http://www...
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no list of applications would be complete without microsoft office. i have always used this on windows and had a chance to check out office 2004, 2008 and 2011 on the mac. the latest versions of office (2010 for the pc and windows phone, 2011...
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in the first month of this blog (back in april 2008) i blogged about ice cube. it’s now two and a half years later and i’m blogging about diddy. he’s #9 on klout’s twitter influence list (the top 20 is interesting – included below) and microsoft...
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amazon’s mp3 store has a nifty little application that reminds me of when i first started downloading music. they are also offering 25 free christmas songs ( http://amzn.to/guPRiO ) which is an added bonus. pc version of the application – either...
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my daughter used to make up songs all the time (she still sings a lot but now it’s usually something she’s heard before) and that’s when i first discovered songsmith from microsoft research . this is a program that can create a musical soundtrack...
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i use a lot of different computers (desktops, laptops, tablets, touchscreens, netbooks, etc.) and access to data is always the most important thing (it doesn’t matter if i have the program – most of the time i need access to my data in that program),...
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i’ve been using an eye-fi sd card in a digital camera for over a year now (so why is this on a list of the 25 apps for christmas?) – i actually switched to a newer digital camera and still love the fact that the pictures wirelessly transmit to the eye...
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remember real player ? winamp ? codec’s like xvid and divx ? there are addins like adobe flash and quicktime to work with certain video formats on webpages. occasionally i’ve had to go find a video codec or install one of these...
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ever since live mesh was shown to employees in 2008 by ray ozzie i have been a huge fan. this christmas there is a released version for both windows and the mac os . i’ll add some screen shots shortly, but this is one application i’ve become...
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imagine you are in your car, at a restaurant or a store and a song comes on that you really like but you don’t know the artist or song title (you make an educated guess with what sounds like the chorus, but certain songs/artists might use this as the...
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with software there is a leader (or creator) and then there are alternatives. sometimes these alternatives improve upon an original, sometimes they simplify a program that has become large and occasionally they consolidate multiple programs or features...
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before joining microsoft i was a technical trainer and part of that job was dealing with the constant "what if" questions that would come up in a microsoft course ("what if you created or deleted an object from two windows 2000 active directory...
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for the last 30 years i have been using a computer and the one common thread among all those computers? applications that made it useful. many of these applications were “off the shelf” meaning i or someone i lived with paid for the application...
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it’s december 1st and having recently gotten a windows phone 7 and starting to play around with applications, i’ve decided blog posts of my 25 favorite apps would be a good series for my blog. i’ve been using microsoft applications since ms dos...
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check this one out – when you’ve got multiple tabs in internet explorer 9, you can drag a tab into it’s own window. three tabs open in internet explorer 9 beta just drag a tab like the it crowd and it’s in a separate window by itself! Share this post...
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today i was installing office 2010 using the click-to-run/application virtualization technology microsoft has and decided to use problem steps recorder to “document” the process. to my surprise on a multi monitor system, problem steps recorder captured...
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