MSN Tech & Gadgets has published a Wall Street Journal article about getting around some restrictions that an IT department might be trying to enforce.
Here, then, are the 10 secrets your IT department doesn’t want you to know, the risks you’ll face if you use them — and tips about how to keep yourself (and your job) safe while you’re at it.
It mentions sending large files via email, getting to blocked web sites, and more.
InfoWorld has started a campaign to Save Windows XP:
Microsoft plans to end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, despite a deep reluctance by many business and individuals about moving to Vista. InfoWorld believes such an expensive, time-consuming shift with problematic benefits should not be forced on Windows users, so we have decided to rally XP users to demand that XP be kept available.
The web site has a countdown clock as well as a petition which as of the time of this posting, has over 30,000 people who have “signed” it. If you love Windows XP and would like to stay around a while longer, then support the campaign.
From Fortune Magazine (via CNN Money):
Steve Jobs gave it his best, delivering a new must-have gadget called the MacBook Air, deals with a full house of compliant Hollywood studios, and more bells and whistles on his existing products and services in a 90-minute speech than most technology companies do in a year.
But Wall Street was not impressed; shares of Apple got hammered, falling more than 10 points during the course of the keynote despite the impressive sales figures Jobs rattled off: 4 million iPhones, 5 million copies of the Leopard operating system, 4 billion songs, 125 million TV shows, 7 million movies.
I’ve reviewed Password Agent from Moon Software before. I recently noticed they have new utilities called Shell Tools:
Shell Tools is a collection of free Windows shell extensions and utilities. This package contains updated versions of our old shell extensions FontLoader, FileNote, RegisterEx, CopyURL and new ones, including nice control panel that allows you to control all the extensions in one place.
I’ve installed the tools and depending on the folder you are in, it gives you right-click (context) options to:
- Copy Filename
- Filenote
- Show Hidden Files
- FontLoader
- CopyURL
- RegisterServer
The Moon Software Shell Tools page does a great job of explaining each one. It also shows some screenshots.
Download Squad linked to this neat site in early December:
How often have you started arguing with a friend over the correct pronunciation of a word? You know, the kind of word that you read all the time, but suddenly realize you’ve never heard spoken out loud. Well, before you beat your friend to a bloody pulp, you might want to check out howjsay, an online pronunciation dictionary.
Howjsay is simple, yet effective. You type in a word and if it has the word, it will highlight it in pink on a new screen and you’ll hear how to say it. If they don’t have the word, it will bring up words that are close to the spelling.
A couple of years ago the only option for creating or modifying PDFs was to purchase Adobe Acrobat. These days there are lots of free utilities that let you create your own PDFs and manipulate them. I’ve previously covered PDFCreator, CutePDF, and doPDF.
The Reader to Reader section of the December 2007 issue of Windows IT Pro magazine mentioned PDFTools 1.3. I haven’t tried it, but the site explains it this way:
PDFTools is a PDF management application. It can encrypt, decrypt, join, split, stamp, create and rearrange a PDF file.
Version 1.1+ includes a very powerful and simple to use XML to PDF converter.
Also, Download Squad recently mentioned a different utility called PDF Split and Merge. You can use the utility to extract pages from a PDF, break up a PDF into sections (a 100-page PDF can be made into 5 20-page PDFs), or merge multiple PDFs into one file.
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