Washington D.C. shoots Goo over the bow of Microsoft
Washington DC has recently decided to hang up the keys to the Microsoft Upgrade Closet and adopt Google Apps for its city employees. The choice Washington DC has made will help to cut their budget by $3.5 million in software licensing fees alone. That looks good for taxpayers; not for Microsoft. Of course this doesn’t necessarily spell doom for Redmond, but it doesn’t necessarily look fab...
Read MoreRSS In Plain English
Ever noticed that keeping up with all your favorite news sites and blogs takes too much time? RSS is the solution. Watch the video: RSS In Plain English Got it? Good. Now get thee a Google Reader account! Aaron Marks applies his 80/20 rule to IT support: 80% people skills and 20% computer ninja magic. ...
Read MoreHow to Fix Expired Security Certificate for smtp.gmail.com (Google’s Mail Server)
File under: oops Google accidentally let their mail sending server’s security certificate expire. When you go to send an email, you will see an alert message that reads “Unable to verify SSL server smtp.gmail.com”. Hopefully Google will fix it soon. In the mean time, we can tell our computer to trust the server in question. Click on Show Certificate Check Always Trust...
Read MoreArcSource <3 Yelp
I’m proud to announce that ArcSource has a Yelp page!! If you’re a Yelp user, please do stop by and say hi? There is a huge variety of amazingly useful Web 2.0 services that ArcSource depends on for our business. We keep in touch throughout the day with Twitter.com, we keep track of useful web sites using del.icio.us. Our work life depends on these resources on a daily basis....
Read MoreEmail big links without the line breaks
Ever send a link to someone only to have them tell you it didn’t work? It’s often the case that URLs (the address included in a link) will have a complicated string of numbers and letters like http://www.bluerivers.org/index.cgi?action=display_one&story_id=339&holiday=halloween that allow a web server to fetch a particular bit of data. This exact URL is necessary in order to...
Read MoreThe Zoho Experiment
When I attended the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco last week, I did not know all of what to expect. I am not surprised that I saw multiple MS Office replacement products. Some were open source and some had minimal cost. But what did surprise me was the variation in quality of the offerings. I won’t name the ones I did not like, but the coolest one by far was Zoho Office. Zoho is...
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