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How to synchronize an Exchange and Google Calendar to the iPhone

June 9, 2010

If you are like me, you like to keep your business calendar separate from your personal calendar.  That can be easy to do if you don’t need your second calendar to be synchronized, but if you do want both calendars synchronized, this is how you do it. This is the way I found to be [...]

Google Street View Snowmobile

February 10, 2010

Very cool, Google is adding ski slopes to Google Maps.  You can see the slopes that they have already added here.

Free network monitoring software – Spiceworks

February 9, 2010

Spiceworks is a free piece of software I have been using for a while now that can monitor your network.  The software runs on a Windows server however you can access the website interface from anywhere. Spiceworks allows you to create alerts on many things on your network that can email you and let you [...]

Copy DVDs fast and easy with 123CopyDVD

February 8, 2010

If you are like me, you like to make backup copies of your DVDs in order to make sure nothing happens to the originals.  Unfortunately a lot of the DVD copying software that is available is buggy or doesn’t make copies of most DVDs.  I have many different pieces of software and none of them [...]

Create an Outlook Signature based on Active Directory

February 5, 2010

You can save yourself a lot of time down the road by creating a signature in Outlook using a template and applying it to everyone in your company automatically using Active Directory.  Using a Windows Powershell script and Group policy, you can do just that. 1. Download the Powershell script from Microsoft’s website. 2. Open [...]

Why I love SaaS

July 7, 2009

It’s taken me a while but every day I become more of a believer in SaaS (Software as a Service), at least for small businesses. No worrying about hardware failing If you have ever done any system admin work for small businesses, you know the worst possible thing that could ever happen is a hardware [...]

Pictures from HGTV Change the World

June 19, 2009

Here are some pictures I took today from the HGTV Change the World Start at Home event. You can find more information about this event here.

Flash flood in front of the office

June 15, 2009

Flash flood in front of the office in Kirkwood, MO

Firefox on OS X Sucks

June 11, 2009

This is something I have been putting up with forever. Firefox on OS X is just horrible. It is either using 99% CPU or else it is just running slow all together. Yes I do use plugins however disabling them really doesn’t help. Even if it did, what would be the point? The only reason [...]

Fixing rtorrent: Could not lock session directory

June 11, 2009

rTorrent is a very cool torrent client used in *nix based systems. I have been using it on my Apple TV now for a few weeks with very good results. Recently the weather here in St. Louis has been stormy and it knocked out my electricity. When the power came back on, I couldn’t get [...]