Autotask Ticket Details Apple Mac
Here is a great tool if you are using a Mac and using Autotask. You can make a service so you can highlight the ticket number, right click it, and then select Open Ticket Details. It will open the ticket for you. Please check out the link. A Mac OS X Service To Open Autotask […]
Really Shut Down Windows
Control Panel –> Power Options Choose what the power buttons do Change settings that are currently unavailable Turn on fast startup (recommended) [I don’t think so!] Remove the check mark here. How it should be! Now save it and enjoy a better computing experiance. Make sure the “When I press the power button:” is set […]
Frontier DSL – Bridge Mode Setup
I had another adventure with Frontier. The main support people don’t seem to get any training. They are just hired and said Go. I needed to setup DSL as a backup internet connection for a client. It has to be in Bridge mode to pass all internet traffic to my firewall. I have an Exchange […]
Tagging Movies
It’s really easy to stream movies around the house with Apple products. Apple has “Home Sharing” which allows all the devices to share all the media when on the same network. Music, movies, video’s etc. So I’m ripping our movie collection into Apple video format and saving them on our Mediacenter computer. The media we’ve […]
Memory? Thoughts?
Have you ever wished you wrote something down or could remember something? I do all the time. I found www.evernote.com probably a year ago. Their goal is to be “an extension to your brain.” It’s a database program for your thoughts and idea’s. They have a program for Windows and Mac. All your data is […]
Lastpass
I’ve been using a great password tool for a little over 1 month now. It’s www.lastpass.com. I used an encrypted spreadsheet with all my passwords in the past. That is slow, cumbersome and requires a lot of steps. I ended up re-using passwords which isn’t secure. From the experts I listen to Lastpass is completly […]