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2005 January

Picture This! (Picasa v2.0)

Many people know that Picasa just reached the age of 2.0. Let this serve as notice to those who might have missed that or those who felt that it wasn’t a big deal - you’re missing out on a Good Thing.
Picasa wasn’t released as a 2.0 product without changes. Remember - this is Google we’re [...]

ID3 renamer v0.23.8

ID3 renamer enables you to update ID3 tags for an entire folder of MP3 files at once. If your MP3s have tag common information missing, like for example the artist name or the genre, you can use the software to quickly add this information to all of them at once. In addition, the program lets [...]

The Greatest Films

If someone was to put you on the spot and ask you what you thought some of the greatest films of all time were, what would you say? Hopefully “Dude, Where’s My Car?” isn’t your idea of a great cinematic experience. Everyone has their own set of must see movies, and their list is just [...]

The Potential Detritus Of Online Surveys

Patti writes:
I was planning to try working at home doing “paid surveys” online. They are asking me to install several programs that I don’t know anything about. Is it safe?
The Internet has opened up many options for those that want to work from home, but the reality is that there are more scam artists than [...]

Common Discourtesy

Here’s a rant I just have to get off my chest before I think about it. In some situations, it is best to capture the emotions before they are intellectualized. I just received an e-mail from a senior requesting some information and a freebie. So I responded to him with what he wanted and hit [...]

Windows Users! Send Your Aunty Some Flowers!

Dear Gentle Readers,
Have you been helped, amused, or entertained by something which Aunty has written for you?
If so, you can show your appreciation by sending Aunty some flowers!
Yes, your old Aunty just loves flowers, and her good friends over at Flowers Fast have made it super easy! Just visit the Flowers Fast link, which [...]

Windows XP Clients Will Not Retrieve Updates From SUS Server

If your Windows XP clients are not retrieving updates from the SUS server on your network, there are a few things you can try to resolve the problem. First, all of the workstations must be running a minimum of service pack 1 for Windows XP (any Windows 2000 clients must be running SP3).
In order [...]

Simple Passwords In Windows Server 2003

A Lockergnome reader recently e-mailed me about a problem he was having with implementing simple passwords in Windows Server 2003. Of course my first response was to ask: “Why use simple passwords?” As it turned out, it was only in a lab environment. The reader indicated that there was no GPO applied at the OU [...]

Folders: Yup, A Dirty Word To Many!

This article, which is Housekeeping 105, will focus on the dreaded folders. I am extremely pleased with folders and hopefully, by the end of this article and the next one, Folders deux, you will be, too.
There are two uses for files and folders. One is to organize all of your information so that most of [...]

What You Need To Know About The “Windows Genuine Advantage” Microsoft Anti-Piracy Program

A couple of weeks ago, Aunty reported to you that Microsoft’s new free anti-spyware came with a price: a verification of whether the version of Windows the user was trying to protect was legitimate, or pirated.
Well, this check was but one aspect of the Microsoft “Windows Genuine Advantage” program, and if you are not [...]

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