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SharePoint 2007 – middleware for the masses

I have been playing around with SharePoint 2007 for a while now and I think I am most impressed by the power that it puts into the hands of IT savvy end users, to create line of business solutions and to enhance these solutions further by integration with Office 2007.  ...

Email growth

 A few months ago Om Malik posted some predictions about email growth by 2010 that had been published by the Radicati Group,  although the raw numbers were impressive, the growth wasn’t except for the growth in the number of wireless email users.          The graphic was done...

When to use IM

I personally love IM and when I am at my desk I use it probably 10 times more than I use Email and I shudder to think how many emails I would need to send in order to iterate to the information I want by passing emails back and forth...

Installing Palm Desktop on a Tablet PC

Ricardo from El Salvador just emailed me asking me how I managed to install the Palm Desktop on a Tablet PC.  Palm say it’s not supported, but it’s worked fine for me, once I managed to get it installed, which seems to work fine provided you follow these instructions: uninstall...

Using remote desktop with Vista

I have just installed Vista RC1 – build 5600 – and want to use the trick I posted a while back that allows me to disconnect from a remote desktop connection to my Tablet, without my tablet locking (i.e. presenting the login screen).  On XP to do this I would...

Offline SharePoint

Although I work from home and tend to be always connected to the Internet, I still find that I really like to use products that allow me to work off-line.  Not only is the performance often better, but it’s more reliable and I still spend a couple of hours a...

PowerShell comes to Virtual Server

I am a real fan of Windows PowerShell, not least because of the quality of the team who have worked on it and I have blogged about it a few times before.  I was disappointed that it’s not pervasive in Vista although I know all about the need to make...

Microsoft Knowledge Network – a different approach to social networking

Microsoft’s Knowledge network looks interesting, it uses a client side component to gather information from your PC including email authors and recipients, Outlook contacts, IM contacts, manager (as defined in Active Directory), managers direct reports and your direct reports and SharePoint 2007 colleagues and it also analyses email subject and body text...

Home grown

I would love to grow more of my own food, but I need a larger greenhouse and a lot more time.  Still for now at least I can content myself with a bowl of strawberries every night throughout the summer!

Backlight your PC

I don’t like having the room light on while working at my PC, so this idea on Lifehacker gave me the kick I needed to come up with a cheap way to backlight my monitors and it works really well. Behind my displays I have a 30W 1 Meter fluorescent light fitting which kicks...