Archive for the 'Tech Blogs' Category

HTC TOUCH 2 FAIL

February 12th, 2010

Ok so this week I had to replace some of our Black Berry Storms, which really scuk by the way.
I was replacing them with 2 Blackberry Tours and 1 HTC Touch 2
I have to say that the Tours did their job. They functioned properly and retrieved email smoothly. The querty keypad was great and the [...]

Outlook Calendar Scheduling Issues

September 28th, 2009

So I was having some weird issues with our outlook calendar.
When someone would send out a meeting request and you tried to respond you would get the following error:

As the meeting organizer, you do not need to respond to the meeting
This was driving me nuts.
This calendar is stored on a public folder and I was [...]

My Keyboard Needs A Bath

August 6th, 2009

Ok can’t wait to hear the reaction to this one.
Got a crusty keyboard? There is nothing nastier then a keyboard with greasy keys, food particles stuck in it, or any other nasty things you can think of.

I remember back in my help desk days, I got a call from this lady. “My keyboard isn’t [...]

Social Media Identity Theft

April 20th, 2009

Not anymore with knowem.com. Having a presence on the internet is huge! How many social networking sites are on the web now? 100’s 1′000’s? Who has the time to go to all of them and secure their brand/company/personal name? I know I don’t. Not only that, what if someone were to sign [...]

Can’t Send New Emails In Outlook Web Access

October 3rd, 2008

So I just set up a few new laptops with Vista. They connect via OWA to our 2003 exchange server. I started getting a few people telling me that when they connect to email and try to send or reply the window opens, but there is an X in the box and they can’t type.
I [...]

Restart Computer From Remote Desktop

August 13th, 2007

This always confused me and annoyed me. There is a simple solution to restart your xp computer remotely.
When logged in via remote desktop simply hit ctrl alt end and it will give you the option to restart.
Good Luck!

Common internet explorer mistake.

May 7th, 2007

Very often we get a cal saying I don’t know what I did ,but I no longer have an address bar in my browser and everything looks different. It’s a simple fix. Hit the F11 key and voila, back to normal. Magic!!

Computer Restarts Whenever I Print

April 27th, 2007

So today we had an unusually problem. Every time this user would print the computer would restart. The problem was that the printer was plugged into a UPS. Turns out that it draws so much power it caused the computer to restart. We switched out the printer and all was well again. Wasting trees in [...]