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This site had some good suggestions, including paying attention to the following should optimize your chances of receiving a response to your emails to unknown people:Descriptive subject line
Polite point-of-contact
Succinct statement of the message’s purpose
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Microsoft has released a new version of the Remote Desktop Client that is compatible with some of the new features of Vista. It is available for Windows XP, and 2003.
On communicating; and Vista remote admin
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Cool concept mobile device
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Device UI of the near future? look at this mobile device concept – kind of like a universal remote in steroids!
iF Design iF details viewlinks for 2006-10-22
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The top 25 best free quality fonts
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“Help! I’m lost!” Autoplay option
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oooh a free anti-virus tool for windows….
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links for 2006-10-21
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Here’s how you can sync your Google Calendar with Outlook 2003 or 2007 and automatically sync to your phone in the process.
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:How to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld.
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links for 2006-10-12
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Creating professional, unique presentations can be much easier than you might think. This article will help you find the right tools to get exactly the presentation you want. It looks at three components of creating effective presentations, and provide ti
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links for 2006-07-15
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The IT worker of 2010 won’t be a technology guru but rather a ‘versatilist.’
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links for 2006-06-26
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This site seems really interesting – recommended by friend and former colleague Jason Adcock. This is Signal vs. Noise, a weblog by 37signals about entrepreneurship, design, experience, simplicity, constraints, pop culture, our products, products we like,
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Evolution of dance
YouTube:Evolution of Dance an amusing collection of dance moves over the years… Tim, lets count how many of your moves moves are here… 
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Need to add some file storage space onto your in-home or small business network? You really need to have a place to store frequent backups. Now it is easier and cheaper than ever before.
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Looking for property information in Victoria before making a purchase? The Land Vic site has interactive maps so that you can search for properties and get land reports – very handy
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Cool – a three column layout for the K2 style for WordPress. Looks like I have a couple of jobs to do…
April 26, 2006
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Running Scheduled XP Tasks Without A Password
Sometimes it’s handy to have a scheduled task do something in Windows XP. I use a couple for different reasons. One is to do a weekly backup of data from one disk to another, and the other is to do a daily grab of the TV guide from IceTV to process and deliver to my Topfield PVR.
Annoyingly, but probably appropriately, XP doesn’t let you run scheduled tasks by default without a password set on the user account. This is described in Microsoft knowledge base article 310715.
Instead of creating a password for my login at home, and instead of creating a ‘dummy’ account with a password just for scheduled tasks, I found this: Scheduled Tasks – Running Tasks Without A Password.
For XP Pro: Go to Start/Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Options
Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only. This is enabled by default, disable it.For XP Home: (Keith Miller) Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\LsaValue name: limitblankpassworduse, Type: REG_DWORD, Data: 0 (disabled) 1 (enabled)
Anyway, it works…
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