Over the years I have used a few different data recovery softwares, but most of the time removing the hard drive and putting it into an external HD case would enable me to get the info I needed off the hard drive.  The only times there were issues was when there was some really deep corruption going on. Most software will detect and try to find the old data and I have had programs running for days trying to get the data back!! Thats not fun at all.

Step in windows data recovery software from Disk Doctors Software. Not only was it fast it worked! I tested this out on an older hard drive that I had laying around which I knew had some corruption and never had the time to deal with it. I was able to scan it and get the data back in a few hours! Sweet!  If you work with computers give it a shot, they even offer a free demo which will show you what files it finds, but won’t restore them unless you pony up the money, but it is well worth it.

Click Here to check out the free demos. They have a program for pretty much any data issue you might be having and even have data recovery software for MAC and Linux machines.  They even have software just for outlook data recovery and outlook back ups which is a must if you are using Outlook for your business.

I am all about products that work and work fast and the windows data recovery software from disk doctors did just that.

Let me know your thoughts if you have used this. I have yet to see any data recovery software that works as fast.

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 users were happy.

On to the HTC Touch 2. What a piece of junk!! Years ago I had used the T-mobile htc model. The one before the wing. For the life of me I can’t think 0f the name. Anyways that phone did me well. It ran windows mobile and I really never had an issue with it.

This new HTC Touch 2 is like the bastard child of a storm and a wing. They just try to do too much!
It comes with a stylus, but they tell you too use your finger. Instead of picking one they decided to suck at both options.

My first opinion right off the bat after I turned it on and tried to get around was that it sucked! I wanted my boss to form his own opinion so after I configured it to run with our exchange server I let him have at it!

Bosses Conclusion : This thing is a piece of S*** Ha. I then said to him, “yup I know, but I wanted you to come to your own conclusion.”

It seems to me that all these phones try to do everything, and never really focus on the main things.
That is why I truly love the simplicity of my iphone. The only reason I can’t get people here are the iphone is because they have this idea that AT&T has no coverage even though I tell them I never have any issues.  My iphone is hooked up to our exchange server as well and runs great! I have 4 emails address running off of it and it is so smooth!

You truly can’t beat the simplicity of the IPHONE. Well until the next phone stumbles into my door I will be sticking with my Iphone.

HTC TOUCH 2 = FAIL!

P.S. Too wipe the data off the HTC Touch 2 you need to click on Settings, Then all settings at the bottom left, them system, then storage, Type in 1234 click ok and sent that piece of crap back!!!

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 searching everywhere for an answer.

I tried Outlook.EXE /freebusy and that seemed to work for certain people, but not everyone and eventually the error would come back to all.

The other strange thing was that you could respond with no problem via outlook web access or via blackberry/iphone.

I saw so many questions about this on the web, with no answers.

I think I finally figured it out and hope that a few people can benefit from this.

Turns out the calendar was corrupted. Sometimes by using blackberries and responding to meeting requests it can occasionally cause corruption on that public folder calendar.

So what was I to do? Create a new calendar of course.

I was able to make a back up of the older calendar by selecting it and going to file export and save it as a pst file.

I then created the new Folder, then imported the old pst so all the calendar appointments show up.

You will have to go to each users computer and add the new calendar in so they can see it from the regular calendar view.

You will also have to adjust permissions again as well. It seems when you import the old calendar all the stats of who created what are gone and only admin can change the existing appointments.

Well I hope this helps a few people out there.

Leave me a comment if it does or you run into more issues.

Good luck!

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 working right!!” Well… I found out the issue pretty quickly. I think it had to do with the food she ate hovering over it all day long constantly falling in the keyboard, not to mention hair and other things I could not explain.

Sorry for the rant so… if you are too cheap to go out and drop $20 on a new keyboard then there is a simple solution. Drop that puppy in the dishwasher!
I am serious. I have done this numerous times and they come out squeaky clean.
There are a few steps you need to follow below.

1. Run it in the dishwasher by itself. Quickest cycle it has!
2. If its wireless take the batteries out!!
3. If it has a cord coil it up nice so it doesn’t get caught in the spinny thingy “Tech Term Right There”
4. DO NOT RUN HEAT DRY
5. I don’t use soap, but I guess you could. “Dish Soap That Is”
6. Take it out as soon as cycle is over and dry off what you can and let air dry over night “24 hours is best”
“I assume no responsibility for broken dishwashers or keyboards hehe”

So what are you waiting for? It really works and your keyboard will be squeaky clean. Stop eating your sandwich over your keyboard right now and go run a china cycle on the old dishwasher.

If you do it, leave a comment below.

Oh and if you decide to put your laptop in the dishwasher then there is no hope for you anyway.

Good luck

Today this has changed! knowem.com has created a site that will go out and check all the top social network sites for the availability of your username. Not only that, they will also sign you up for them. Talk about saving time! This seems like a great service that any company or aspiring actor or musician should take advantage of.

You can read more about KnowEm via their press release that went out today http://www.prweb.com/releases/Social/Media/prweb2339354.htm

What are you waiting for? Go get your company/personal name branded today!

I had them click on the options button at the lower left and go to Email Security and Click Install
This seemed to fixed this, but everytime they went to send an email IE7 would crash! yey!!


Turns out I had to download and exchange 2003 patch. You can find it here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/911829/
After I did this all was good with the world. lol. On the laptop that I downloaded the S/MIME i had to go to options and email security and hit reinstall. On the other laptop I never made any changes and it just worked after the exchange server update.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Good Luck!!

Good Luck!