Archive for the ‘Desktops and Laptops’ Category

Windows live folder share

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

      Got more than one computer you want your files on? Windows Live FolderShare allows you to sync folders to all your computers, you can also use it to share files with freinds and family. It works on both the PC and Mac and can sync files up to 2GB. All you need ...

Hyper-V Server 2008

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Look it's Hyper-V Server 2008 working on a macBook Pro. But look at how little RAM its using and how few processes are in use. Now this is an interesting server, as it's completely free, installs in less than 5 minutes, configures up in about 20 seconds and does exactly ...

IE Compatibility in FireFox

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Many of our customers (that includes most of our engineers) use Firefox as our main web browser. There are some sites that just run better in Microsofts Internet Explorer (IE) and some that just don't run at all without it. I just spotted a plug in for IE that lets ...

OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

We have recently put a few iMacs and macBookPros into a few customers and thought a few of the most used keyboard shortcuts for OS X would be well typed up. All mac users sure try out Quicksilver, I've found it to be an invaluble tool that makes using OS X ...

Fixing redirected My Docs permissions, using Powershell

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

For many of our customers we redirect a user's My Documents to a directory of the same name, on a Windows share. For example, the user 'JMcMuffin' may have their My Docs redirected to "\\FILESERVER\Home\JMcMuffin\My Documents", which are stored in a local path of D:\Data\Users\JMcMuffin, on FILESERVER. Obviously you can ...