Monthly Archives: January 2011

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3cx version 9 upgrade – complete

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged 3CX on January 7, 2011 by HAL

I completed an upgrade of a demo 3cx version 8 windows based PBX today. Main things that impressed me were the speed of the upgrade – a few minutes and the ease of backing up the config and restoring using the wizard. The system was back up and operational in a few minutes. The main […]

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Outlook 2010 and Blackberry desktop

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips and tagged Blackberry Desktop Outlook 2010 RIM on January 6, 2011 by HAL

Why are we waiting – oh why are we waiting ? Thats be the refrain from Blackberry owners with Outlook 2010 since it was discovered that the blackberry desktop software didn’t work with it. It seems likely forever (6 months is forever in the software world – RIM) but this morning while reviewing software versions […]

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Snagit 10

This entry was posted in Must Have Software and tagged Snagit on January 5, 2011 by HAL

I realised during spring cleaning software on my main workstation that I hadn’t got the latest version of Snagit – an essential tool for screen shots and anotations that I could not live without. A quick upgrade transaction later and I moved from the old beta version of ten to the final current release. Immediately […]

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Sidelog – a Notes sidebar plugin for Domino admins

This entry was posted in Review Software Tips and tagged Domino Plugin Widget on January 4, 2011 by HAL

In a bid to see what additional functionality can be added to the Notes client sidebar – I was interested to read about a widget called Sidelog which gives access to the latest console messages on a domino server. You can grab the app from here http://www.jeffgilfelt.com/SideLog/ and Jeff’s instructions are Installation SideLog requires Lotus Notes 8.x […]

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UltraMon (no not UltraLord – you watch too much Fanboy and ChumChum)

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged Ultramon on January 3, 2011 by HAL

As a multiple monitor user – I find that the added productivity of being able to run a number of apps and have them visible to me all the time – remote server status – helpdesk apps – the list is endless. So I recently started using Ultramon  from Realtime Software  from here. I think […]

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Bad_Pool_Header blue screen of death on xp

This entry was posted in Software Tips and tagged Bad_Pool_header on January 2, 2011 by HAL

Happy New Year – heres to a year full of articles and tips !! During the break we have had many issues but the first one I want to mention relates to a BSOD that occurred on XP sp3 machine that is used for childrens games and Itunes. The answer to this is to boot […]

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