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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:46 PM

Google Wave – first impression

During the weekend I got an invite to Google’s new (or rather newer) product – Wave and I’ve decided to find out what it’s all about. What is Google Wave for? Reading the answer from the about page: Google Wave is an online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless -- in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is a conversation with multiple participants -- participants are people...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 9:07 AM

How to use a printer from windows7 when you don’t have the needed device driver

At office we have a Xerox printer that don’t have a driver for windows7 (yet?), but I still manage to print from it without any hassle. How – simply by using the incredible XP Mode. The bane of the last two windows OS (Vista and Win7) was lack of driver support, although win7 has better support you can still find several vendors that still don’t have drivers for their products especially for the 64bit OS version. Luckily the new Virtual PC/XP Mode supports external devices and setting a new hardware...
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Friday, May 01, 2009 4:40 PM

Server Fault enters private Beta

The maker of StackOverflow have created an IT centric site where IT professionals can ask and answer questions. Although I don’t consider myself an IT professional I need to do some server & network administration at work and home and I find myself constantly wishing for a site just like this. Server Fault is similar to its sister site – a community to ask questions I could not find an answer to searching the internet.   The private beta is open for current StackOverflow users as well –...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009 6:46 PM

How to remove a setup package with a known uninstall bug

Today was the 2nd time I managed to cause a machine at work to not be able to uninstall the project I've been working on. During installation tests I "accidentally" deleted part of the registry and resulting in not being able to uninstall the MSI (because it wasn't there) and not being able to install a new version of the project ("project already exist") - AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! I've tried using some of the uninstall tools (i.e. Revo Uninstaller ) and even considered...
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Sunday, December 07, 2008 3:32 AM

Z-Screen - open source screen capture tool

Screen capture application has become a must since I've started blogging, and I've used a few different screen capture tools to see which fits my needs (perhaps I'll write a blog post about it someday). Today I found out about a new open source tool called Z-Screen its easy to use and has a lot of customization options. It supports full screen, active window and crop regions. Several options to where to save to your images to (directory, FTP, Image shack). Custom automatic naming convention...
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Monday, September 15, 2008 4:56 AM

Three Fixes that helped me when windows failed to Install an update

I think that it happen to me at least once in each computer I own or worked on: While running Windows (or Microsoft) update I get an error claiming that the update could not be installed. This used to be a source of frustration for me. I needed to Google around and try solutions and tips from the Internet - some would work and some not. Over the time I have found three solution that helped me fixed this annoying problem. 1. Add Windows Update to your trusted sites This used to solve the problem in...
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