Archive for the ‘Software’ 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great Anti-Malware/Adware/Spyware

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

During our day to day work we sometimes come across a messy PC full of Malware (or whatever you might want to call it). We recently had to deal just such a poorly PC and a new found tool came to the resuce - Anti-Malware by Malwarebytes. Exceptionally simple interface, quick ...

New Software / Service Packs

Friday, July 4th, 2008

In the last few days the following (relevent to us and our customers) software has been released - Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2 This is just like the RDC program that's build into Windows. It allows users to connect to a server for administration or terminal services. We and ...