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John Sawyer's Techo Blog: April 2009
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog. Ideas and things for IT. 160; See: My Creative Writing Blog. Monday, April 20, 2009. A VBNET console app to backup your blog(s). If you want a small program that you can run periodically to backup your blogger blogs, you can use the following source code with the Google GData .NET Library. See Sorting photo data from Google's Picasa API. For another example of using the GData .NET library. You need to supply your email address and password at service.Credentials.
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog: July 2010
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog. Ideas and things for IT. 160; See: My Creative Writing Blog. Monday, July 5, 2010. Sync your Outlook Calendar between PC, notebook and workplace. All you need is:. A Gmail or Google Apps account with an active Calendar. Google Calendar Sync installed on each computer that you need to have a synchronised calendar. You will be prompted to enter you calendar account. You will notice a new icon in your sytem tray. It shows arrows when it is actively syncing. Posted by John Sawyer.
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog: November 2008
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog. Ideas and things for IT. 160; See: My Creative Writing Blog. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Use Fiddler to explore HTTP GZIP compression. Once you've installed Fiddler (see Fiddler helps you analyse HTTP traffic. It's worth looking at the data savings using GZIP compression. The above URL uses GZIP and delivers 57,127 bytes using just 12,320 bytes. Certainly worth exploring your WWW site. See the later post: Safari Browser provides Web Inspection Tool. Posted by John Sawyer.
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog: Connect to MS SQL Northwind sample from Java
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog. Ideas and things for IT. 160; See: My Creative Writing Blog. Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Connect to MS SQL Northwind sample from Java. See below for update when running on x64 platform). I just printed these names from Microsoft’s sample NorthWind database. Here are the steps I used:. I installed the Northwind database:. Copy the files to a new folder C: Databases. Started SQL Server Management Studio. You need to restart the service (I used Windows services manager). Handle any e...
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog: December 2008
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog. Ideas and things for IT. 160; See: My Creative Writing Blog. Monday, December 29, 2008. Database Publishing Service used with Database Publishing Wizard. In the previous post ( Useful SQL Database Transfer Tool. I mentioned Service that can be installed on a a server and receive requests directly from the Publishing Wizard. This is an open source project. The compiled version can be downloaded from Microsoft SQL Server Database Publishing Services 1.1. I also changed the serve...
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog: August 2008
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog. Ideas and things for IT. 160; See: My Creative Writing Blog. Friday, August 29, 2008. Adobe Reader is not a friendly program for command line printing. It opens a window and doesn't always shut down gracefully. There are a couple of candidates for less obtrusive PDF printing:. Setting up Hot Folder Mode. Either Adobe Reader 4.x - 8.x or the full version of Adobe Acrobat 4.x - 8.x is required. Price $95 per seat - discounts available for bulk. Adobe Acrobat 9.0 ActiveX. Works a...
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog: Infiltration Alert Virus attacked my notebook
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog. Ideas and things for IT. 160; See: My Creative Writing Blog. Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Infiltration Alert Virus attacked my notebook. My notebook is running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. It was infected by a series Trojan viruses that displayed 4 symptoms:. Outlook 2003 stopped showing non-embedded images. Some hours later, I started to get popup windows that warned of an infiltration alert while running a fake anti-virus scanner. Variations of this virus kept reappearing.
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog: December 2009
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John Sawyer's Techo Blog. Ideas and things for IT. 160; See: My Creative Writing Blog. Wednesday, December 2, 2009. Office application version does not match with Office 2003. You may have bought a new PC with Office 2007 installed and you want to go back to the user friendly Office 2003. There are 3 steps you need to carry out before you can get 2003 to run correctly:. Uninstall the 60 day Trial update helper. And make sure you Uninstall Business Contact Manager. Posted by John Sawyer.
