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Outlook Out of Office Christmas Message

Published by technicalguy on December 2nd, 2011 - in Email, How to, Small Business Technology

Here’s how to create your Out Of Office Message in Outlook, since chances are, you’ll be taking some time off during this Christmas and New Year season.

Christmas this year is on a Sunday and so many will take at least the Friday and following Monday off – some much more. New Years also falls on a Sunday and I know some places will be shut down all the time in between those two holidays. If you’re one of the lucky ones and your office will be closed for an extended period of time this season, how do you let your customers and friends know? (more…)

How to Root your Nook Tablet

Published by technicalguy on November 21st, 2011 - in How to, Nook

Four days after its release a root has been provided for the Nook Tablet to turn it into a full Android tablet. The Nook Tablet was released November 16, earlier than originally expected, and probably due to Amazon’s Kindle Fire release date.

Here’s the 6.9Mb download file that comes with the instructions at XDA Developers. (more…)

Excel Date Changes by Four Years

Published by technicalguy on November 19th, 2011 - in How to

Why does the date change when you copy cells from an old Excel spreadsheet to a new one?

I had a customer with an Excel spreadsheet saved in the Excel 97 format. They opened it up in Excel 2007 and copied the contents to a new spreadsheet – and the date within the date cell changed by four years!

This anomaly has to do with Excel Date Codes. (more…)

Windows 7 Temporary Profile Error

Published by technicalguy on October 24th, 2011 - in How to, Network, Technology

If you’re logging in and continually getting the “You are using a temporary Profile..” message then it is likely your profile registry key has become corrupted.

 

Here’s how to fix the profile registry key

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How To Access a Windows GPT Partition

Published by technicalguy on October 17th, 2011 - in Computers, How to, Network, Technology

Having trouble accessing a USB drive in Windows XP?

Try this

Go to the Windows Computer Manager and select the Disk Manager. Does the drive show as a GPT Protected Partition? That’s your problem.

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How to Change Your Twitter Profile Picture

Published by technicalguy on October 17th, 2011 - in How to, Social Media

You’ve set up a Twitter account and have started tweeting – but how do you change from that ugly egg shell to something more personal?
Twitter Profile Picture

 
That colored egg is your twitter profile picture and it’s what you get by default. (more…)

Rootkit Removal Requires Reinstall

Published by technicalguy on June 30th, 2011 - in How to, Small Business Technology

There is a new rootkit trojan called “Popureb” that Microsoft says will require you to reinstall your operating system to completely remove this rootkit.

[Update: Microsoft now advises using the Windows Recovery Console, however many security experts still advise a complete re-install for a rootkit removal]

“If your system does get infected with Trojan:Win32/Popureb.E, we advise you to fix the MBR and then use a recovery CD to restore your system to a pre-infected state,” – Chun Feng,  Engineer, Microsoft Malware Protection Center. (more…)

How to Read PDF on your Kindle

Published by technicalguy on June 15th, 2011 - in Amazon Kindle, How to, Small Business Technology, Tablet, Technology

Easily read PDF books on your Amazon Kindle

If you have books or documents in the PDF format, maybe from an online collection or from work, there is a really easy way to convert these so that you can read PDF files on your Kindle (versions 1 and 2). They will appear on your book menu and can be read just like any other Kindle ebook.
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How to Read EPub Books on your Kindle

Published by technicalguy on June 6th, 2011 - in Amazon Kindle, eBooks, How to, Small Business Technology

Got a new Kindle for Christmas? Here’s how to convert your collection of books in the EPub format, maybe from Google Books, eBooks.com, AbeBooks, or another online collection, so that you can read those EPub files on your Kindle.
They will appear on your book menu and can be read just like any other Kindle ebook.
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