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Terrific Windows Tip of the Day: “No to all…”

After an operating system like XP has been out for — what is it now? 17 years? — it can seem as though all the great little tricks and tips have been exposed. Well, it can seem this way to me, anyway, since I do this for a living.

But sometimes there’s a little nugget that happens to arise out of the blue making you wish you had know about it years ago. To wit:

When copying a folder from one location to another, if any files [snip...]

Friday Feed Xtra Special

What comes once every 4 years, is eagerly anticipated country - even world - wide, and gives us a glimmer of hope for a better tomorrow?

The US presidential election, of course! Oh, wait. Sorry. That was for an entirely separate blog post…

Leap Year Day, February 29th, of course! February, normally the shortest month of the year, on leap years remains still the shortest month of the year only one day less short. If only all planetary orbital time adjusting could be this fun!

And so, to [snip...]

The IT Atrium Help Desk is open for business

First Atrium Help Desk

In case you missed it, yesterday was the inaugural session of our latest attempt to scale the heights of accessible customer service: IT Atrium Help Desk!

Every Tuesday and Thursday from 3pm to 4pm one or more members of Your Friendly Computing Services Team will set up a satellite branch of our support office in the Glycofi Atrium. We hope this will provide easy, visible, and immediate access to computing assistance without having to visit our offices or [snip...]

The Friday Feed (Finally!)

Here it is, back with a tan and a set of mug shots, the prodigal Friday Feed!

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NetNewsWire is now FREE

Good news everybody!

The truly terrific desktop desktop RSS reader for the Mac - NetNewsWire - along with it’s Windows-version cousin FeedGator have now become significantly less expensive to purchase. You can now download them for the low price of $0.00 - free.

NetNewsWire has long been my favorite reader on the Mac. Easy to use, configure, and customize, it easily outshines the free browser and web-based readers, and I never found another desktop client that I preferred more. The only thing stopping me from recommending [snip...]