Rob Garrett - Blogs

January 2007 - Posts

• Uploading PST Mail to GMail

  Ok, I've seen various convoluted methods for uploading mail stored in Microsoft PST files to GMail, none of them are ideal. I have found a tried and trusted method that seems to have worked and is reliable: 1. Open Outlook and add your PST as a Data File: Read More... Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 10:15 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments Filed under: Email

• Cable Labs Certified Media Center - Requirements

  Cable Labs is really putting the screws on OEM users, who like to home-brew their media center PC on the cheap. To view and record HDTV content on a new Vista MCE PC, the following is a list of required components (thanks Chris Lanier ): 1) Vista Home Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:41 AM by Rob Garrett | 2 Comments Filed under: Windows Media, Windows Vista

• Free Cat/Dog Food

  Off topic: Are you a pet owner, got a cat, dog, or both? Then why not take up the Purina One Challenge and receive some free pet food. 1-888-606-BARK or http://www.purinaonechallenge.com/ Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More... Posted Monday, January 22, 2007 11:21 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Off Topic

• Adding pages to Community Server

  This blog post is a keeper, the following post by Thomas Anderson explains how to add pages to community server. Check out the new advertisments page I added to my site. http://renevo.com/blogs/developer/archive/2006/11/30/adding-pages-to-community-server.aspx Read More... Posted Friday, January 19, 2007 2:48 PM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Community Server

• Blog Trading

  Are you into trading on the stock market? Love the thrill of buying and selling stock but don't have a lot of cash to play with? Never mind, why not play the next best trading market - Blog Shares . Participating weblogs float on the virtual market for Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:44 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments Filed under: Blogging

• iTunes - Home and Office

  So, here's a quandary - I have iTunes installed at home, accessing my large music collection. I have the same music collection at the office on a portable drive (I considered DAAP over the network, but didn't want to suck bandwidth), also accessed by Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:40 AM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments Filed under: Music

• Windows Vista UAC - Further Reading

  Then and Now Microsoft Windows XP™ initially creates all user accounts as local administrators. Administrators have full access to system-wide resources and can execute any privileged operation. Microsoft guidelines suggest that users run day-to-day Read More... Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:44 PM by Rob Garrett | 5 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Security

• Windows Vista - User Account Control

  Presently, users of the Microsoft Windows™ operating system have had to face several challenges to secure the integrity of the data residing on their computer. Users have had to cope with the vast slew of malware, including viruses, spyware, and root-kits, Read More... Posted Thursday, January 04, 2007 3:32 PM by Rob Garrett | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Security

• Broken Image in Outlook Web Access

  If you experience broken links in Microsoft Outlook Web Access - specifically when replying to an email, then this fix is required. In Microsoft Windows Vista release, the Dynamic HTML Editing ActiveX control is removed from the Internet Explorer browser. Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 10:57 AM by Rob Garrett | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Vista