Avoiding the Holiday Coma at Work
If you’re anything like me, December is a tough month to stay focused. There is college basketball, football bowl games, family visiting, cookies to bake, gifts to buy and wrap and on top of it all WORK.
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centre{source} Makes a BANG with the Monthly Interactive Mixer
In the fall of 2008, the Strategy team at centre{source} set out to create a plan for expanding the firm’s reach and involvement in the local Nashville Interactive Community. Over the course of a few months, a strategy was formed that involved looking inwardly for personal development opportunities and looking outwardly for ways to become…
Sprint AIRAVE
Ok… so we haven’t had the best of luck with Sprint (see here, and here) and while our company is slowly moving toward AT&T due to “some device” that came out in the last few months, I do have to hand it to Sprint for be one of the first companies to actually release a…
Seagate’s Portable WiFi / Bluetooth HD Solution: DAVE
A few days ago, Seagate released a statement about some new technology that they have dubbed “DAVE” (Digital Audio Video Experience). From the release: Using Bluetooth or WiFi connections, DAVE is the answer to providing substantial storage capacity without impacting the design or cost of mobile handsets. Built for portability and about the size of…
LiveJournal Jabber
Are the seemingly never-ending Instant-Messaging wars finally coming to a close? Jabber/XMPP has gotten another big shot in the arm this week, with the announcement that Livejournal has launched a Jabber server for its users, complete with the friends-list pre-loaded as the Jabber roster. They will be incorporating s2s communication, along with lots of other…
comcast woes
Well, we were and are giving Comcast a shot for our new office’s internet access. While I am personally averse to Comcast’s service and reputation, their product offering of 8Mbps/1Mbps throughput with a static IP is too much to resist. That is, it would be if we were actually seeing that. We’ve only had our…
The Internet is Down!
Nearly everyone that has worked in tech support before (or even those that haven’t) has a joke or story about some naive end-user calling about a routine problem but describing it as “the Internet is down!” — when really all they needed to do was reboot or something. It’s funny, and we nerds all get…
MS Access Error: Disk or network error.
One of our clients called and reported an issue with a MS Access database. The user was able to open a network based .mdb file, but when they tried to click on a switchboard button they received the following error message: “Disk or network error.” There are many resources that deal with this error, but…
Non-Profit Technology Planning
We had and have a lot of non-profit clients, and this article at TechSoup is a great primer on planning for technology needs for non-profits. Check it out.
Map a drive to your FTP server
If you have an FTP server that you’re constantly uploading to and downloading from, it can be a pain to use an FTP program to manage everything. Novell’s free program, NetDrive, let’s you instead map your FTP server to act like a local hard drive, so that all your remote files are accessible through the…