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Businesses may be deterred from making investments in technology in the current economic climate, especially those planning to use finance to minimise cash flow impact and spread the cost over the life of the assets. With banks unwilling to lend to each other, let alone small businesses, it may seem...
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TiGra Networks is proud to announce our new joint venture with Master Place Ltd, which we are calling LiveCRM.biz . Based on Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management, our solution provides a quick and easy way to revolutionise your sales, marketing and customer service. At TiGra Networks,...
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Are you making the most of Windows Search? This was one of the most important new features introduced with Windows Vista that can save you a good deal of time. Instead of clicking through layers of folder hierarchy, simply type the filename or a phrase that occurs in your document and Windows will find...
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For Outlook users who are always exceeding their mailbox quota: I wrote this for you .
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Exchange mailboxes are never large enough. The upward pressure of the ever-increasing volume of email we deal with is set against the downward pressure from system administrators, as they battle to manage the servers and keep up with storage requirements. The end result is that our mailbox is usually...
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I've recently experienced a problem in the CRM 4.0 client for Outlook (both the desktop/online and laptop/offline versions) where Outlook would inexplicably crash every 15 minutes (the default CRM synchronisation interval is 15 minutes). We had narrowed down the problem to a few contacts and had...
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I've been dabbling with various different development projects recently and I've uncovered what I think is an important failing in Microsoft's support for 64-bit software. In Visual Studio, the default setting is to generate code for "Any CPU". This sounds great because it means...
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Remember Clippy? Remember Office XP? It seems like the biggest selling point of Office XP is that Microsoft took away Clippy. Those office assistants were a pretty neat idea at the time, but are now regarded scornfully. How times change. I was cleaning up my hard drive today and stumbled across the story...
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Chris Rue has a stinging appraisal of Groove over at the funcave. "Groove has to be the worst software I’ve ever used in my life. [it] has the most idiotic user interface seen since cc:Mail. [...] To top it off, [...] this thing totally sucks at handling the group part of collaboration. Which is...
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Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin. I've had fun migrating one particular company to a new server recently. It started out before Christmas as a simple redeployment swing migration, but what I didn't know when I started the job is that the old server had already been hastily recovered...
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Here's a great tip for new users of Microsoft Office 2007. There is an add-in you can download that adds a new Getting Started tab to the ribbon. The new ribbon contains links to all sorts of online training and demos plus the interactive guides that help transition from the old menu-and-toolbar...
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Here's a great tip I picked up at the Microsoft Roadshow 2007 a few days ago. For new users of Office 2007 there is an add-in you can download that adds a new Getting Started tab to the ribbon. The new ribbon contains links to all sorts of online training and demos plus the interactive guides that...
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After what seems like forever (I've been involved with this product since May 2006), Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 ["OA"] is finally available in the UK, along with the Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network (MPAN) . The basic (yet capable) edition is free to download and use while...
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After what seems like forever (I've been beta testing since May 2006), Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 is finally available in the UK, along with the Microsoft Professional Accountants’ Network (MPAN) . The basic (yet capable) edition is free to download and use while the professional edition costs...
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LinkedIn is offering the first million UK members to join a special celebratory group, so if you're a LinkedIn user, toddle off over there now and claim your 'First Million' badge. So what is LinkedIn and why should you care? It is more useful than you might think... Essentially, it is intended...