I’ve been away from the PC most of the weekend and just catching up now, so you may know about the new Gmail features already, but I just want to say, I’ve been waiting and waiting for the ability to export my contacts, so I’m one happy dude now that it’s here.
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Got the AV definitons rolled back on my machine and the AV working again. The Live Update reports no new updates are available, which makes me think that either the update file that I grabbed yesterday is bad, or is incompatible with our older version of the software. Oh well, it’s probably about time we…
I was off-line most of the weekend, celebrating Angela’s birthday with both of our families, so I hadn’t noticed until I grabbed the copy/paste code for that last entry that ESBN.org had added some features. Obviously the “rate this content” is new, and given the close race between thumbs up and thumbs down my posts…
For all you user-support folks out there, here’s a question for discussion. We all know that keeping the lines of communication open between users and IT staff is an important part of any tech support operation. If people are afraid to come to you with questions, that’s bad for everyone involved. Sometimes that means saying…
If you saw Angela’s post from Friday night, then you probably figured out that we did get the upgrade to Tiger installed on her eMac, and you probably know how much fun she was having with Dashboard widgets. It was a pretty painless upgrade, and once she went to bed Friday night, I spent a…
Last night’s projects, while staying up to watch the Islanders shutout the Sharks 3-0, (whoo hoo!) included downloading a copy of Newsmonster and upgrading the Red Hat 7.1 Workstation to 8.0. On the Red Hat front, I still haven’t found a solution to the network card problem on the server edition of Red Hat, but…
Yup, it’s official, I’m a winner, despite all the “loser” talk. As part of Chuck Chat Technorama show #50 they had a drawing for some donated prizes and I was the winner of a free copy of the new Podcasting book by Todd Cochrane, of Geek News Central fame. I’m looking forward to reading the…