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| Friday, August 05, 2005
Random questions Just some things I have questions about, that I'm hoping maybe some of my readers might have some information on. Warning, some of them may be obvious, I'm just having trouble finding the obvious solution! - Why does Gmail sometimes take two attachments that I send with an email and mash them into one DAT file, while at other times, it sends both just fine? Is there something I can do to prevent that? - Is there an easy way to rotate Apache access logs running Uniform Server on a Windows box? Every way I've found thus far has failed to actually rotate them. - Speaking of access logs, should I be too disappointed that a week after launching the intranet site there are still a handful of people who have never even looked at it? Am I just going to have to wait for the day they miss out on some information that's been posted there for them to finally look at it, or do you have any suggestions? If one of those people mentioned it to you in conversation, would you point out that you knew they hadn't even looked at it or just ignore it? - Does anyone know, for sure, that the upgrade version of Photoshop CS2 will upgrade from "any" previous version, as the documentation says? My gut tells me upgrading from version 5 to CS2 is not going to be allowed, that you'd need to have a newer version, but it does say "any previous version", right? Has anyone done this? I need someone to ease my mind about this before we make the purchase. That's all for now, enjoy your weekend, I'm going to be living the bachelor life, (Angela's going to visit her folks) and spending much time at the Dublin Irish Festival! Tags: Questions Photoshop UniformServer Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 10:36 AM | 0 comments | 
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
New article My review of the Creative Muvo Micro n200 is up on the 2guys2cities blog. Tags: MuvoMicro 2Guys2Cities Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 4:04 PM | 0 comments |
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005
SyncToy Beta I saw mention of a new Windows XP Powertoy over the weekend, so when I saw SyncToy was available this morning I grabbed a copy for the XP desktop at the office. My hope was that this would ease the struggle I currently have with OneNote. Notably, I like to keep a copy of my work "notebook" in a separate folder within my laptop "notebook" in case I need any of the information I have in there while I'm away from the office. The burning question was whether this XP Powertoy would sync with remote folders on a machine running 2000. It does. I like this, although I still have to remember to run the sync. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 1:28 PM | 0 comments |
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Monday, August 01, 2005
Early rollout notes As you know, I went public with the intranet site Friday, but with that being a Friday in the summer time I figured most of my real feedback would come today. Thus far, most of the feedback has been good but there are a couple of things I want to point out to anyone else who might be planning an intranet website for the first time in their office: 1. Some of your users are going to be afraid of it. They don't really understand what an intranet site is for, so they're naturally skeptical about trying to learn about it. Unfortunately, if you don't get these people on board and using the site, it's effectiveness will be limited. 2. No matter how well-documented it is, you'll miss something obvious. It never occurred to me, but I should have told people exactly where to find the "submit news" link. The menu options change dependent on what module you are in, people naturally don't look back at the menu once they've entered the News module, assuming it is always the same, like a frame, but it isn't. 3. It may come as second nature to us, but some people are unfamiliar with the concept of message boards, and how they differ from email. You don't read an item and then delete it on a message board the same way you do with your email. (I probably added to this confusion by using office-wide emails as an example of where you should use the intranet site instead of what we have been doing.) 4. One of your users is probably going to come up with a way to use the site that you never even thought of. Whatever backbone you're using to build your site, make sure it's flexible! (It hasn't happened yet, but I know there are a couple of pretty web-savvy folks who, once they're familiar with the concept, will start churning out ideas.) Tags: IntranetNotes Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 2:42 PM | 0 comments |
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