Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Review of Free iPhone News Apps, Part 1

As an Irish person, who tends to be interested in home and worldwide news, the iPhone, and more specifically some iPhone applications, are indispensible. Especially if they’re free… I know there are a large number of paid news apps available but free is always better . So looking at the top 50 news apps [...]

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Websites in Offline Directories…

Image via Wikipedia

We’ve all, at one time or another, needed to find a phone number of a local tradesman, or business. Now, the first thing I do is google it. However, before the advent of google, the first thing you picked up was the golden pages or some other local directory. Even now, alot of local businesses just [...]

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Search all the computers in your domain

Sometimes, as part of an IT team, you’ll get a strange request to search every PC in your domain for a particular file, or files containing particular information. Also, you couldn’t just search for a file name as someone might have renamed the file. At first I would have said that it was an impossibly [...]

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Windows File Copy

XKCD – Legendary. This web comic is absolutely hilarious and definitely worth a regular read!

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Console switch for mstsc?

As a Systems Administrator, I do a lot of troubleshooting every day for end-users. I also look after a number of servers and often have to complete very long tasks on these servers. One particular job that I’m working on at the minute is importing users .pst files into Enterprise Vault archives. This is a [...]

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