Lately, I've found it really important to have multiple instances of a powerpoint open. Unfortunately, powerpoint opens all the files under a single instance of the application. Ultimately, in a multiple monitor environment, this makes it impossible to enjoy the benefit of having one .ppt in on one monitor and another .pptx open in another monitor.
Thanks to this site. Essentially, you need to setup an extra user on your machine (hint: Control Panel > Users > Add Users) and then open one instance of powerpoint by simply clicking on it. And then opening up the other takes a couple seconds. Here's the steps:
Happy Productivity!
Labels: Social-Learning
Labels: Social-Learning
I've recently purchased a 4TB ReadyNAS NVX and I'm currently trying to setup a pretty new feature called ReadyNAS Remote, documented here. As far as I can tell, this functionality will allow me to replicate a traditinal VPN setup and I'm really excited to use it. Since I'm having a little trouble getting this setup and there's a lack of documentation on the internet about it, I'm going to highlight the problem solution path I went through to get this setup. Starting with step 1:
I was getting an error. This ReadyNAS cannot connect to ReadyNAS Remote.
OK - I was on the phone with netgear about 4-5 times. I got a support ticket going and got my issue raised to Level 2. Essentially - I think something was wrong with their services because all at once, the ReadyNAS started recognizing the service and my laptop logged into the client. The ReadyNAS remote experience is A+. When it's all setup, you can securly using your network attached storage off your LAN. \\ReadNAS\folder\file.txt on your LAN will still be \\ReadNAS\folder\file.txt .. This was a big deal for me because I've got Dreamweaver setup to access web documents on the NAS. If I had to edit the Site Manager everytime I took logged onto a new network, it would be real pain.
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I recently upgraded my Coldfusion 8 development server to 8,0,1,195765 and a pretty basic FTP task I had sceduled started erroring. It was giving me the following error :
Ultimately, what fixed the error was changing 'cfftp name="xxx"...' to 'cfftp connection="xxx"...'. [I found this solution here]
Labels: Social-Learning
Recently, I've taken steps to create a web development environment for building newer versions of some of my websites. I plan on covering some of the finer details later on but some of the upgrades include things like:
Granted, this setup isn't super unique but if you take the time to do something like this, 2 questions may follow:
The simple answer is to look into editing your HOSTS file. FYI - you will need to edit the HOSTS file on your workstation computer and your server. I recommend using your own top-level domain for your development box. For example, having EXAMPLE.COM go to the internet and EXAMPLE.DEV going to your development server.
If you try doing this yourself, you might not figure it out so easily but this is a pretty straight forward process. All you'll need for that is to read this article : How to create a self-signed SSL Certificate .
Happy Developing!!!
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I didn't quite realize this would be an issue when I tried - but essentially I went about making a XP Professional web development box with an older Pre-Installed Vista machine. What happened shortly after starting the installation process was I recieved an error, "Setup did not find any hard disks". It seems the newer computers don't come loaded with a XP compatible storage controller.
To make a long story short, everything is working great now thanks to this link. I created a Custom XP installation using NLite. The directions on that link were really good and everything worked well. In my case, the hardest part was getting the actual Dell Storage Drivers because they give you an .exe file that only wants to write the drivers to an old Floppy Disk drive and I couldn't seem to fool it. I did end up searching for my drivers and got a zip file.
If this is happening to you, Goodluck! Just go to that website I highlighted, follow the directions and know it's not the end of the world.
Labels: Social-Learning
I'm fairly tired of filling up my humidifier every night and I'm still concerned about the heath issues of mold, viruses and mildew flying around our duct work. I'm looking for a humidifier which I can connect to a water line and does not need to be connected to the duct work. The idea is simple but I can't find anything quite like it. Any suggestions? If I have to, I might just have to invent it!
I've found a company called AprilAire and they seem to have some innovative humidifying technology but it doesn't seem like they have what I'm looking for.
Labels: Social-Buying, Social-Learning
I'm heading up to St. Raymond, Quebec soon for a 4 day snowmobile trip. The temperatures have been so cold lately so I wanted to know how the already cold weather would get magnified by the speed of our sleds.
As of 2009, Windchill Temperature = 35.74 + 0.6215*T - 35.75(V^.16)+.4275*T*V^(.16)
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Are you here because you can't add a contact or address to your Outlook? In my particular situation, I have an Exchange Server connected to my Outlook and my Mobile Email Device. Suddenly out of the blue, I could no longer add appointments or contacts via Outlook but I could do it on my Phone.
I discovered that this issue was being caused by the constant 'connection' to the Exchange Server (which doesn't seem right). I proved this by going to bottom right of my Outlook program and right clicking on the Online/Offline button and selecting 'Work Offline'. At that point, was able to add contacts and appointment.
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After investigating, I learned that this issue is caused by a corrupt email profile so the more long-term solution is to re-create your profile. The beauty of exchange server is that this won't set you back one bit as your email, contacts and appointments will be instantly recreated once your recreate the email profile.
Labels: Social-Learning
It seems like for a few months now, I've been watching New Hampshire's WMUR in the morning and frequently a commercial comes on for an opportunity to get a Fritz Weatherbee ring tone. It's really hard to describe who Fritz is if you don't live in New Hampshire but anyway, one of the ring tone's say "If you pick up your phone, it might be Binky Sears!". Binky Sears - Who is Binky Sears? It's taken me a while but I've finally tried figuring out who this 'Binky Sears' character is and I've determined that nobody else seems to know either. I've only found one lonely message board thread about it and it doesn't conclude anything. So....
And why should we get excited if he calls? If I ever find out, I will post the answer hear and if you have any leads to where we might be able to find an answer, please comment or contact me.
Anagrams are a type of word play where the results of rearranging the letters of a phrase make a new phrase. It's doesn't seem likely that Fritz is using anagrams or other hidden language to communicate with his audience but it's not completely crazy as it is something people who pass on knowledge sometimes do. Before we try 'BINKY SEARS', I'll illustrate an example of an anagram's from the popular book 'Da Vinci Code'.
Below is a list of anagram solutions I found for 'BINKY SEARS'. There's probably 1000's of solutions so I'm just going to list some interesting ones. If you're trying this yourself and the anagram really exsists, it's probably a 'New Hampshire Phrase' or specifically related to something in 'New Hampshire'.
So here we go! By rearranging the letters 'BINKY SEARS', you can spell:
So far, I'm not convinced 'BINKY SEARS' is an anagram.
This idea came from a comment on this post which was written in a way that leads us to believe Fritz left it himself. This means we need to do some research in New Hampshire about his mother spelled 'Binkie' and the term 'Sears'. My first thoughts are that it could be 'Sears', the department store OR 'Sears' a last name like Richard Dudley Sears. It could even be a homonym like 'seer', which is a visionary.
I've found a couple references to a 'Richard Dudley Sears' who was a graduate of Harvard and resident of Massachusetts. It's hard to tell but this this 'person' may have been a great tennis player or even a architect in Concord,NH. If he is the architect in Concord,NH then we may be on to something.
Well, aside from being the most obvious solution I'm a bit perplexed as to why Fritz would be making and marketing ringtones about something the nobody knows about and ultimately has to be ask him in order to find out who 'Binky Sears' is. Is this Fritz's way of reaching out to the community? Maybe I will inquire about 'Binky Sears' from Fritz himself and finally get a more solid conclusion.
Labels: Social-Learning
Excel is a great program for manipulating data and then using it to concatenate a SQL string. Recently, I've found that when I copy concatenated string which looks perfect in excel, it adds quotes around the text when I try and paste them into a text editor or SQL manager. These quotes are unnecessary and I don't want them there.
I've found that if there are line breaks in your concatenated text, then excel will try and preserve the string by adding surrounding quotes.
I've found that by removing the line breaks - Excel will paste un-quoted text. If this doesn't help you and excel is still randomly quoting your text, let me know and maybe we can figure it out together.
Labels: Social-Learning
I've learned over the years that a good blog stays on topic so to fight my urge to be completely random at times, I've sectioned my blog off into a few different sections, one of them being 'myBlog'. This particular section will stray around and you can expect things in myBlog to be fairly random and non-related to anything specific. For example, I'll use this section to reply to a random blog post, test something out or making a personal post. The rest of my blog sections will stay relevant to the other posts and hopefully you'll find them semi-interesting. Then you'll want to subscribe their respective XML feeds!
Hope that clears things up for ya!
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When first mentioned, I didn't know how to set an Auto-Reply to new followers on Twitter. I wasn't sure if it was a Twitter App setting or a setting within Twitter.
I have found out from RavenSEO's John Henshaw that you have to use a 3rd party application like TweetLater. That was just the first one I found. I'm sure there's a lot more out there and being developed. It seems like you can use this sort of technology to have a Tweet go out whenever you update your blog. That's a nice thing to keep in mind.
Labels: Social-Learning
I'm developing a relationship with a SEO and I want to hand him over some access to Google Analytics Reporting Data. The problem I'm having it that it seems as of (12/23/2008), Google Analytics only allows us to restrict specific domains and not specific reports. I'm particularly confused by this Google FAQ article titled ' How do I restrict a user's access to certain domains or reports?. It seems that it should be re-written as 'How do I restrict user's access to certain domains and their reports?'.
Right now it just seems to be an all-or-nothing game when it comes to distributing access to your GA reports. I'll be sure to update this post when I become aware of how to change access to specific reports within a particular domain within Google Analytics.
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