Ever needed a temporary email address?

Well with 10 minute mail you get an email address for 10 mins.. Its all free.

http://10minutemail.com

30 Windows 7 Hotkeys: Ultimate Guide

30 Windows 7 Hotkeys: Ultimate Guide

http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/s/2z8qKP

How to Remove Security center malware

Remove Security Center (Uninstall Guide)
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-security-center

Removal instructions for Windows protection malware

Removal instructions for Windows Protection Servant
http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=85286

How Digital Signatures work.

What is a Digital Signature?

http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/s/2QFfFw

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Deploying Office 2010

Useful reading if you are after deploying Office 2010

http://www.stumbleupon.com/to/s/16UXFi

Useful Linux commands

Came from the blog of Josh Jordon so thanks!!

man = Help command. Every command in Linux will have it’s own ‘Man’ page.

ls = Lists information about files and directories.
ls -a = hides entries starting with “.”
ls -l = displays entries in a “long-list” format
ls -R = Recursive display. List all subdirectories.

pwd = Show current working directory.
mkdir = Make a directory.
rmdir = Remove a directory.
cd = Change directory.

touch = Create a new file.
cat = Display contents of files.
more = Shows files a page at a time.
find = Search for files that meet a desired criteria.
diff = Shows differences in two files.
chmod = File and directory permissions.

ln = Create links (hard links by default).
ln -s = Symbolic shortcut (more like the shortcuts in Windows).

wc = Word and line count.
wc -c = Word count.
wc -l = Line count.

du = Disk usage.
df = Disk free space.

ps = Process status.
ps -a = Show all processes, including other users.
ps -e = Show processes from everyone.

alias = Allows you to create your own shell commands.
history = shows previous commands used.
ssh = Secure shell client. Aka, remote login.

How to use yum update through a proxy server

The following command will allow you to yum update when you have to go through a proxy server

export http_proxy=http://proxy address:port number

you must make sure you have the http:// before the address for this to work.

Download Free FLV Player for Windows 7

Download Free FLV Player for Windows 7
http://tutorialcollection.cz.cc/download-free-flv-player-for-windows-7

Excellent FREE windows 7 book

I highly recommend this book, it is not only simple to read but has some great tips. This is great for both users as well IT people.

Considering most companies including the one i work for are looking at rolling out Windows 7 I think most would benefit from reading this..

http://www.thelongclimb.com/books/win7powerfree.pdf

Skype Portable

For those who need a portable version :)

Skype Portable 5.3.0.111 (chat and voice calling) Released by PortableApps.com
http://portableapps.com/news/2011-04-27_-_skype_portable_5.3.0.111_released

Free training on itunes

If you ever wanted to expand your learning then itunes actaully is one of the best resources and best of all its FREE.. "itunes u" contains training from everything from management podcasts to networking podcasts to how to learn a new langauage.

To find "itunes u" open itunes and you will find it as a link on the bottom..

Have fun and lets all learn something new...

Best iPad apps - Part 2

This is part 2 of the best of my best iPad apps list..

App Shopper - This app shows you discounted apps or paid apps that are now free, its where i have got most of my applications from.

Radio for ipad - Excellent online radio including shoutcast.

Google - The google appnot only allows you to search but also gives you access to email / docs + all the other google sites.

Convertor - Great application for every type of conversion i love thefact youcan drag and drop to convert different things.

Where to go - Wicked app for finding places from the nearest pub to a atm..

Best Ipad Apps Part 1

Below is my list of the best iPad apps available and what they do.

Max Journal - Diary but you can also add photos so it very useful. Its the only diary i have ever kept going.

Atomic Browser - Whilst it might be slightly slower than safari it includes so many options including private browsing and its the only browser that properly works as Internet Explorer. Also includes ad blocking by default.

Zite - Best news reader. It comes in a magazine format and learns as you read, the more topics you gives the thumbs up to themore of that content you will get.. I have discovered so much thanks to this and you can share articles directly on twitter / facebook.

Web Albums - A must if you have a piscasa account. It not only allows you to upload photos but also manage your picasa account from your ipad.

Flipboard - Another magazine but with flipboard you can add facebook / twitter / google reader so it allows you to create a custom magazine with just thecontentyou want. You can also share things with facebook and twitter.

ICar Manager - Excellent way of keeping track of your vehicle costs and mileage.

Sky News - Without doubt the best the newsreader on the ipad, news is displayed in timelines so is very easy to read and all the news on a given subject is together.

How to take a screenshot on your ipad / iphone

Hold down the power button and then whilst it is held down press the home button the screen will flash white and then your screenshot will be visabls under pictures.

Why You should Jailbreak your Ipad - Legal reasons

OK so lets just look at the legal reasons why you need to Jailbreak your Ipad 1..

1. Multiflow - This makes multi tasking the same as it is in Safari on the iphone where you get to see a screenshot of the app and then you can click it and it restores. A lot better than Apples version.
2. Adblocker - Removes adverts in Safari, makes reading webpages a lot easier and nicer.
3. Color Mail Labels - If you have more than one email account and use the "All Inboxes" view this colors messages from different accounts so you can easily see which mails come from where.
4. ScollingBoard - This allows you to have upto 7 icons in your dock as well as have dock that has unlimited pages so you can put your common icons in your dock it will also allow you to put more icons in a folder that apple does.
5. Retina Pad - Ever installed iphone / ipod apps on your ipad and noticed they look poor well Retina Pad will make then look crisp and clear.
6. Pull to refresh mail - Allows you to pull the screen down to refresh email like in other apps.
7. FolderEnhancer - Allows you to put folders in folders (For example you could have one games folder with Platform where all your platform games are and one for your racing games etc).

Jailbreaking is easy and takes no more than 5 mins..

The below link contains everything you need..
http://www.ipadforums.net/apple-ipad-news/26142-4-3-2-untethered-jailbreak-tutorial-redsn0w-mac-windows-iphone-ipod-touch-ipad.html

Use a USB Flash Drive to create a password reset usb for windows 7 / vista

Use a USB Flash Drive to create Windows Password Reset Disk in Windows 7
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/use-a-usb-flash-drive-to-create-windows-password-reset-disk-in-windows-7/4142?tag=nl.e064

How to Remove XP Anti-Virus 2011 the manual way

How to Remove XP Anti-Virus 2011 Fake Antivirus, XP Anti-Virus 2011 Removal Instructions
http://www.2-spyware-removal.com/how-to-remove-xp-anti-virus-2011-fake-antivirus-xp-anti-virus-2011-removal-instructions/

How to Enable Remote Desktop on a remote machine

Run Regedit

Select File | Connect Network Registry

Enter the name of the remote computer and select Check Names

Go to hklm\system\currentcontrolset\control\terminal server\FdenyTSConnection

Change the FdenyTSConnection to 0

Now you should be able to connect to the remote computer using Remote Desktop.

Recover Text from Corrupt MS Office documents

Recover Text from Corrupt MS Office Files
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/free-software-downloads/recover-text-from-corrupt-ms-office-files/

How to dual-boot Pardus 2011 and Windows 7

How to dual-boot Pardus 2011 and Windows 7
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/04/14/how-to-dual-boot-pardus-2011-and-windows-7/

Pardus is one of the best linux distros for a long time..

Sent from Zite personalized magazine iPad app.
Available for free in the App Store.
www.zite.com

Sent from my iPad 

How to Maximize the Battery Life on Your Linux Laptop

How to Maximize the Battery Life on Your Linux Laptop

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Shared from Taptu - Instant access to all your interests in one beautiful little app | Into it? Taptu it.

Sent from my iPad

Create Tighter Outlines in Word By Using Only Tabs

Create Tighter Outlines in Word By Using Only Tabs

from Taptu's "Productive Geek" stream

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Shared from Taptu - Instant access to all your interests in one beautiful little app | Into it? Taptu it.

Sent from my iPad 

What is Network Address Translation?

What is Network Address Translation (NAT)? http://whistleblowers.posterous.com/what-is-network-address-translation-nat --- Sent from Zite personalized magazine iPad app. Available for free in the App Store. www.zite.com

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Using Gmail for Sendmail on Sipxecs

I used the following 2 guides to get my gmail account to send the voicemail notifications

http://www.phinesolutions.com/sendmail-gmail-smtp-relay-howto.html

I then needed to the change emali address sipxecs used by creating and modifiying this file

http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/Voicemail-Email+Custom+Notifications

Sipxecs Voice Prompts

If you wont want the US prompts that come with Sipxecs then you can record your own and replace them. They are in /usr/share/www/doc/stdprompts

The below link shows what prompt does what http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/Localization_of_Voice_Prompts

iPhone keyboard tips

1. If you press space twice after a character you will get a full stop. (this is the same on the iPad)

2. if you want a character from the 123 menu if you hold down 123 whilst then moving your finger to the character you want. that character will be written and you will then be returned to the normal keyboard.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Deleting emails on iPhone / iPad

Instead of clicking on edit and then selecting the email you want to delete and clicking on delete you can just swipe your finger across the email from left to right and then the delete button will appear. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Outlook 2010 tips

Couple of very quick tips

1. If you need to find data files it's now under the home tab then it's hidden away under 'new items' then in the sub menu of 'more items'

2. To enable conversations (this is where all your emails including sent are put into conversations). To turn this on the option is under the view tab then under the 'conversations' sections.

3. If you need more screen space then you minimise the ribbon my pressing ctrl + f1. This will just show the titles of each ribbon until they are pressed. Pressing ctrl + f1 will restore the ribbon. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

How to update the firmware / software of your USB 3g dongle

I found an excellent site with all the firmware / software. www.dc-files.com (There is one popup)

How to unlock a Vodfone K3565 dongle

First you need to download dc-unlocker http://www.dc-unlocker.com/ and purchase 4 credits you can do this by paypal. At the current cost it costs €4 to unlock a single dongle. Enter your dc-unlocker.com username and password into the dc-unlocker software and then click unlock. Then you can use mobile partner instead of the vodaphone software http://www.dc-unlocker.com/downloads/Huawei/Not_Customised_Managers Just so you know the k3565 model is actually a Huawei e160

Ever wanted to fully expand office menus

Open an Office program.

Click the Tools menu, and then click Customize.

On the Options tab, select the Always show full menus check box.

Click Close.

How to tell if a Word Document has Track changes enabled

The easiest way to tell if a Word document has track changes enabled is to look at the status bar at the bottom of the Word document and see if TRK is in black or grey.

If its Black as in the picture below its ENABLED.

If its Greyed out then Track changes is NOT enabled.

Ever sent an email and wish you could change it?

Well this wont allow you to change it but it will delay the message being sent giving you time to change it. The below procedure will create an Outlook rule delaying the sending of an email after you click send allowing you to open and edit the email from the Outbox.

To do this open the Rules and Alert wizard from the Tools menu in Outlook (ALT+T followed by ALT+L)  Then select New Rule and Start from a Blank Rule.  Select Check Message after Sending

Click Next and Select “on this machine only” and click next



Now click on “defer delivery by a number of minutes”. 



You will now need to select the number of minutes to delay the message delivery by to do this click on the “ number of” underlined text this will display a popup allowing you to choose the number of minutes delay you wish.



On the next screen it will allow you to choose any exceptions.  In the case below i have not set any.



On the last screen give the rule a name and then switch it on.  All email you send from Outlook will be delayed by the number of minutes you have chosen.  This will not effect any email from Webmail or another PC its a local rule and will only work on the PC / Laptop you set on.

How to forward muliple emails in Outlook

To forward multiple emails at once highlight all the items you wish to forward and then click on the Forward button on the toolbar.

All the selected items will then be added to a new email ready for you to enter a subject and recipient.

 

Swapping Word documents easily and quickly

If you have multiple word documents open there is an easy way to swap between them. 

If you hold down CTRL and then press F6 it will rotate the open documents allowing you to get to the one you need quickly and easily.

Adding Dates into Powerpoint presentations easily.

To add a date is very easily in Powerpoint just select the text box where you want the date to appear and the press ALT + SHIFT + D altogether.

 

Highlight the date format you wish to display and then click on OK.  If you want the date to automatically update when the PPT is opened tick the “Update Automatically”

Your text box will then show the date in the format requested.

 

Easy….

 

 

 

RSS Reader in Outlook 2002 / 2003

Whilst Outlook 2007 has a nice RSS reader Outlook 2003 doesn't but now there is a FREE plug-in. RSS Popper is completely FREE and allows you to download and keep updated with RSS feeds directly to your mailbox. RSS Popper is downloadable from http://www.paradisoft.com/rsspopper/rsspopper.asp Below are some screenshots..   
     

It has many options including time between refresh / folder location / Disable refresh whilst offline.

How to reboot a Blackberry without removing the battery

Ever needed to reboot a Blackberry device and find removing the blackberry battery tricky well you can do it with the keyboard instead

Press ALT + Right aA + Del
When screen is white do it again (Alt+ Right aA + Del)

This will do a full reset if you just want to do a soft reboot then just do the process once. It will take a few minutes to reboot after it has been reset.

Trend Micro Office scan Icon’s

If your company uses Trend Micro’s office scan you might find the below useful it explains all the possible icons that can be displayed.  Very useful.

Thanks goes to the NC State University

Word – How to Print multiple pages on a sheet of Paper

This is a simple quick way to print multiple pages on a single sheet to paper.

Open your Word Document and then click on File and Print (CTRL+P) then change the “Scale to Paper Size” to the paper you will be printing on.

And then change the Pages per sheet to the qty of pages you wish to be printed on one page.

 

And then printed Document will be then have 2 pages per sheet.

Outlook Calendar – Group Schedules

 
Group schedules is something that is not commonly used it allows you to setup a group of people and then check their schedule / setup a meeting or email that group.

It differs from a distribution group because a distribution group normally includes a group of team in a team with this you could create a group for a project where it contains members of multiple teams.

To setup a group go to your calendar and then the Group Schedule button on the tool bar



The group schedules box will then appear

Click New, You will then be able to start adding members on the left hand side as you would normally when checking a schedule. 

 


Once all added you can change the view from Day to Week is required and then use the pull down box “New Meeting” to select the action the following actions are available.

 

 

To exit click “Save and Close”

When you next open Group Schedules you will automatically see your groups which you can highlight and then click Open.

Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts

Below is a list of Outlook keyboard shortcuts which can make Outlook much quicker and easier to use.

CTRL+1   Displays Inbox
CTRL+2   Displays Calendar
CTRL+3   Displays Contacts
CTRL+4   Displays Tasks
CTRL+5   Displays Notes
CTRL+6   Displays Folder List
CTRL+7   Displays Outlook Shortcuts
CTRL+8   Displays Journal
CTRL+D   Deletes Selected Item
CTRL+F   Forwards an email
CTRL+N   New message
CTRL+O   Opens message
CTRL+Q   Marks item as read
CTRL+R   Reply to message
CTRL+Y   Go to Folder
CTRL+SHIFT+R   Reply to all
CTRL+SHIFT+V   Moves Selected items


I have found these very useful when needing to quickly swap between the Calendar and Email

Outlook Calendar Tips

Below are 2 Outlook Calendar tips you may not be aware of. 

How to add other countries holidays to Outlook Calendar
The adding of other countries public holiday’s.  If you are like me and work with many different countries but have problems keeping track of all the public holidays in each country then this is for you..

Open options in Outlook by clicking Tools and then Options and then select the Calendar Options under the main Preferences tab.

Next click on Add Holidays under Calendar options.


This will bring up a selection box enabling you to choose the countries which you wish to have their holiday’s displays in your calendar.




How to add a second time zone to the Outlook Calendar

If you have to arrange lots of meeting with a country in a different time zone it can sometimes be hard trying to work out what time it is in the other location.  You can add a second time zone to your calendar so you can see 2 time zones beside each other.

To do this go to Calendar Options as above and select Time Zone under Advanced Options



Click the box show additional time zone then choose a Label this can be anything and then select the second time zone you wish to be displayed.  Click OK and when you view your calendar you will see a second time zone.

PST Files and OST files

A lot of people seem to be confused by Outlook files so let me try and explain the differences.

PST Files -

These are Outlook data files which hold all your Outlook data from Contacts / Tasks /Calendar / Notes / Attachments to all your email including ALL sub folders.

By Default they are stored in the following location

Windows XP and before
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
Windows Vista
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\

Where Username is your profile name

There are 2 types of PST files
Outlook 2002 and Before and Outlook 2003 / 2007.

Outlook 2002 and Before: These have a limit of 2GB in size.  However they will start to become corrupt after 1.7GB If the PST file becomes corrupt then it will need to be repaired.

Outlook 2003 / 2007 : These have a limit of 20GB.  However whilst i have never seen a corrupt one i would not want to try and recover a 20GB PST as it would take many hours to recover so i would never suggest having a PST over 3-4GB.

If you use POPMail then you all your email is downloaded and stored into a PST file so you should backup the PST file as its your only copy of the email in Outlook.

If you use Exchange mail (Corporate email on Outlook) then only email you store in an Archive is stored in a PST file.

PST files should not be deleted unless you have checked the content is not needed as if cannot be recovered.

OST Files -

These hold an offline COPY of your Exchange Mailbox.  With Exchange email your Mailbox which contains Contacts / Tasks / Notes / Calendar / Email / Attachments resides on a Server but to enable yourself to view your mailbox offline you can setup and Offline Store (OST file).  This is a copy of your mailbox which synchronises changes in your mailbox to your OST File when you connect.   You can delete your OST and recreate it as its only a copy of your Mailbox.

OST Files are kept in the same location as PST files.

Windows XP and before
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
Windows Vista
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\

Where Username is your profile name


You can change the location where PST and OST files are stored.

How to set an Out of Office on a Blackberry

Go into Email and then press the Blackberry button and select Options from the menu.

Enter into the Email Settings

Change the “Use Out of Office Reply” from No to Yes.

This will give you a text box in which to write your Out of Office reply.  When you have written your Out of Office click on the back button and then select Save.

Your Out of Office is now set. 

NOTE: This will only work on company Blackberries and not personal ones.