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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:27 AM

Indian Restaurant: Bangkok & Bombay - San Juan, Puerto Rico

Last week I was in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a long weekend visiting my friend Jose.  We had just been to an authentic Puerto Rican restaurant in Old San Juan for lunch and were driving over to the beach, (yeah the beach in late December - its sunny
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Friday, November 14, 2008 1:00 AM

Screencast Series: Step-By-Step Windows Vista "Nibbles" - Part 4 of 12 - Changing Your Desktop Background

In this screencast  we're going to take a look at how easy it is to change desktop background in Windows Vista.  There are a variety of options available to us including over 20 different wallpapers, sample photographs and solid colors. And
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:00 AM

Screencast Series: Step-By-Step Windows Vista "Nibbles" - Part 3 of 12 - Viewing Folders and Files in Different Ways

The Windows Explorer window is dynamic and changes to reflect the content you are viewing. In this screencast we'll look the new layout of Windows Explorer and how we can customize our view. The core elements of Windows Explorer are: Back and Forward
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Friday, November 07, 2008 1:00 AM

Screencast Series: Step-By-Step Windows Vista "Nibbles" - Part 2 of 12 - Using and Modifying the Start Menu

This is the second screencast in my 12-part series and will look at Using and Modifying the Start Menu . The Start Menu is what links you into all the programs and tasks you can run on your computer. It is very different from the Windows XP start menu
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:00 AM

Unified Communications helping Road Warriors: My laptop is now my phone!!!

My teammate John Weston has created a couple of great screencasts talking about how we use Unified Communications (UC) in our day-to-day work to keep us productive, especially when we're on the road. Everyone in the team has a UC phone number which means
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Monday, November 03, 2008 7:00 AM

Screencast Series: Step-By-Step Windows Vista "Nibbles" - Part 1 of 12 - Updating Windows System Files

I have put together a  12-part screencast series on Windows Vista with content taken from the MSPress book: Windows Vista™ Step by Step .  Each part in the series excerpts a section from a chapter.  I'm calling each of these excerpts
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:00 AM

Indian Restaurant: Bombay Grill - Chamblee, GA (North side of Atlanta off of I-285)

I haven't done any posts recently on Indian restaurants as I've not been on the road as much as I usually am. Since I was out to dinner the other night at one of my favorite Indian Restaurants in the Atlanta area, the Bombay Grill , I thought it was time
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Friday, October 24, 2008 7:00 AM

Time To Reboot - Lenox Mall in Atlanta, GA

Thought this was an amusing picture.  I was driving past my local mall the other night and saw the information display showing their system has just finished running CHKDSK, successfully I might add, the C: volume is CLEAN!!! OK folks, its time to
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:00 AM

Phishing Scams: What Can You Do?

There are a lot of phishing scams out there at the moment. The reason I decided to post this is because I almost fell for one of the social networking scams. I was in Facebook the other day and what appeared to be an instant message from a friend popped
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:00 AM

Hand Made Lamborghini: Built In the Basement

This has got to be the most crazy or most impressive project I've ever seen. Mr. Ken Imhoff saw the movie Cannonball Run seventeen years ago, I saw that same movie and in my case it nearly took away my will to live J , in his case, he fell in love with
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Monday, October 20, 2008 7:00 AM

How To: Network Your Workgroup Computers

Whether you're configuring a home or a small office workgroup, if you have Windows XP and Windows Vista machines in the workgroup you might have had problems getting them to see each other and access shared resources. This short screencast will explain
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Friday, October 17, 2008 7:00 AM

Drought in the South: Lake Hartwell on the Georgia/South Carolina Border

I was up in South Carolina with my daughter last weekend visiting with my ex-in-laws at their condo on the lake. I hadn't been up in a few months and was shocked at how low the lake had dropped. They had been out of town for a few weeks during which time
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:00 AM

eWeek Article: 10 Steps Techies Should Take to Keep Their Jobs in a Financial Meltdown

I thought in the current economic climate this article has some good pointers, although I'm not sure I'd agree with all of them. I'd like to add some other steps you might want to take if you're a Microsoft Technologist: KNOWLEDGE: Have you updated your
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Monday, October 13, 2008 7:00 AM

A Big Mac and Wireless Access Please: McDonalds Internet Lounge

Last week I was looking for a quick bite early one evening and decided for some reason to go to McD's. I don't know why, maybe it was a burger and fries craving and I just didn't want to drive anywhere. It's probably the first time I've been to one in
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Friday, October 10, 2008 7:00 AM

TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows - FREE Online Book

Whether you're a network administrator or just starting out in the IT world, knowledge and understanding of TCP/IP is requirement.  Download this just published, free online book TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows and have that information
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