I have been reviewing a friends presentation for a few days, its content is complex and very interesting, the slides have a lot of information and he has included extensive speaker notes. However I have struggled to follow the story he is trying to tell and come up with a memorable takeaway from...
I love this article by Joel Spolsky which talks about the tendency of some architects to over abstract. I have spent many years as an architect, just as many as a systems integrator and quite a few as a developer, manager and project manager but I know what he’s talking...
Much as I like full text search tools like Windows Desktop Search and X1 they are not really optimized for searching ALL of the files on my PC just by filename, and file meta-data. So I was pleased to come across Locate, on my PC it builds an index of 365,000 files and...
Stu has tagged me and since he’s a friend of mine I will oblige, however not being a fan of chains this branch will end with me. Thinking of 5 things you don’t know about me is a bit if a challenge as my blog contains a lot of information already including an overly...
Graham points to a pretty good article on the SharePoint team blog about when to use SharePoint and when to use a file server. Whilst I think the article is largely technically correct, it doesn’t address many of the points I raised in this post. The key ones being: pretty...
Over the holidays I decided to give my ageing Treo 650 a tune up. I wanted to develop a more efficient workflow. Here’s what I came up with: I have my Treo on my desk all through the day, its a waste of space, so I decided that it would...
I am a bit backup focused at the moment – I wonder why – so here are some useful things to backup: Your windows deskbar shortcuts C:\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Application Data\Windows Desktop Search\WindowsDesktopShortcuts.ini Your ActiveWords C:\Program Files\ActiveWords\USERS\[your username]
Windows media player really bugs me. I want to be able to start it up with one click and have it play my favorite concentration music play list. But it insists on making this a 3 or 4 click activity which is really distracting when I am working as I...
When I installed Windows Desktop Search 3 I re-discovered the deskbar and the really quick and easy way it provides to create shortcuts to folders, documents, applications and web sites. I really disliked the default hotkey though and still do and I also got annoyed by its limitations, the last...
In XP and W2003 I liked being able to search any explorer by simply clicking [SEARCH] or by pressing F3. The search was very fast, especially when just searching on filename. Along comes Windows Desktop Search 3 for Windows 2003 Server, which is working great BUT the folder search bar...