Get your PBX at Costco

There’s been a lot of press lately about Microsoft Response Point. While it has some great features that last time I looked at it, there was still some critical functionality missing before I would deploy it in most places. The upcoming SP1 is supposed to address most of these but we’ll wait and see what [...]

Forget eBooks, I want eMagazines

There’s been a good amount of press lately about the eBook readers like the Amazon Kindle or the Sony Digital Reader. The problem with these is the up-front cost and limited selection of titles available for them. What we really be a great way to promote the digital books is to offer digital magazines instead. [...]

Speed up Outlook by Removing RSS Feeds

I don’t use Outlook to view my RSS feeds but when I first switched over to Outlook 2007 I was checking out the features and so I selected it to sync with the RSS feed…and then forgot about it. Over time the number of RSS feeds grew and so did the amount of space they [...]

Running PowerShell from your Mobile Phone

While I realistically don’t see myself doing this anytime soon I thought this was a really cool idea…Dmitry has a detailed write up on how to Execute PowerShell Scripts from your smartphone to have the ability to send a PowerShell script from your mobile phone and have it run on your servers back at the [...]

Windows Explorer Filter

A cool little feature that I apparently missed in Vista that comes in kinda handy, when you have Explorer open and are looking at a standard list of files, you can sort but name, date, type, etc….the standard options. If you hover over one of the titles, click on the arrow that appears you can [...]

Slacker Internet Radio

Came across Slacker.com earlier this week and so far I’m loving it. I’ve been listening to Live365 for a while now but Slacker seems to have less of the interruptions and the music has been just as good for the channels I’ve been listening to. Have no idea what their business model is (or if [...]

Untangling Mesh – Aka RTFM

While going through some of the info posted on Mesh I found the one line that made me very happy.
The ability to stop synchronizing a folder with your Live Desktop—but still synchronize it between devices in your mesh—is coming soon.

This is what I mentioned previously and that  I am really looking forward to. Not [...]

Running Applications from Mapped Drive

One of the projects I’ve been working on involved choosing between Vista and XP for the desktops. The primary LOB application vendor said they supported and worked fine on Vista except you had to turn off UAC. This took me by surprise so I spoke with their support and engineering departments…the one and only reason [...]

Mesh…gets a little tangled

I finally had some time to spend playing around with Mesh some more and while I still love what it can do and the future features it holds, I have found one major downside to it. It’s something I just didn’t catch on to from the way the menu’s were presented and why I [...]

Live Mesh

I got an invite to Live Mesh the other day and got it setup on a couple systems to try out and see what it’s all about. I’ve read comments on how Mesh is designed to be a platform to be built upon so I’ve been eager to see what it’s all about. Steve Clayton [...]