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Finally found a use for all my old laptop drives...

As I've upgraded laptops and sizes of hard drives, I've usually tried to keep the drive "just in case". The standard size drive never seems to hold all my data. So, over the last couple of years, I've got a few 120GB hard drives that in the past were in a box not being used. I stumbled...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 01-20-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Technology
Reliability Monitor in Windows Vista

If you're running Windows Vista, have you ever taken a look at Reliability Monitor? What is it? A snapshot of how reliable your system is including: A System Stability Chart which shows you a stability rating between 10 and 0 (the higher the number the better). The chart also shows if any of the...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 03-25-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Microsoft, Technology
GMail has become pretty lame...

myITforum.com lists not working, all kinds of issues logging in to the web client? What's going on with Google? I've sent a couple of emails...no response yet to my inquiry's. May be time to unsub from my gmail account and reestablish my account with a different addy. I just don't get...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 05-29-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Internet, Technology
Free Proofpoint Report on Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention

How concerned are companies about the content of email leaving their organizations? And how do companies manage the legal and financial risks associated with outbound email? To find out, Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting (a division of leading analyst firm Forrester) conducted an online survey of technology...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-01-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Security, Technology
WeatherPulse v2.10 Build 5

One of the best desktop weather products I’ve used, and it’s free. Tropic Designs has released build 5 of the product. Why is it the best? No limits to how many locations you track, no limits to the amount of personal maps you can add (that I’ve run up against anyway), and best of all...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-04-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Internet, Technology
High resource utilization from RSS readers

I’ve been testing several different news readers over the last few days, and watching resource utilization at the same time. A few days ago, Outlook 2007 slowed to a crawl, only to discover one of the news readers I was testing had jumped up to high utilization, became a memory hog, and was dragging...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-21-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, News, Internet, Technology
More on RSS readers…

I’ll be posting more later on. I loaded the new Phoenix/Alpha release of RSS Bandit this morning. I’ve not had time to test the sync to Google Reader but will. I will say this though. RSS Bandit is a resource HOG. It not only hogs CPU but memory as well. I’ve tested...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 06-22-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Internet, Technology
According to O2, Six Degrees of Separation is now Three…

According to a recent study by O2 , Six degrees of separation has fallen to three due to the impact of social networking and developments in technology, according to a study carried out by O2. O2 commissioned social organisational specialist Jeff Rodrigues to examine the impact of technology on how connected...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 09-03-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Technology
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey steps down, Evan Williams takes over…

Anyone else following the Twitter blog? This one just went up… Stepping into Different Roles Jack and I have worked together since the beginning to define a direction and goals for the future of Twitter. I took an active executive role as Chief Product Officer at Twitter. This decision was driven...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-16-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Internet, Technology
On Screen Keyboard

Interesting utility, and didn’t know it was there. I was reviewing an Excel spreadsheet, and couldn’t navigate correctly. I glanced down in the status area, and noticed that “Scroll Lock” was on. I looked all over my keyboard on my HP 6910 and couldn’t find a key marked Scroll Lock...

Posted to John at myITforum.com (Weblog) by jgormly on 10-17-2008
Filed under: Miscellaneous, Microsoft, Technology

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