I’ve been playing around with a new little application to help me keep track of all my logins and passwords. It’s called RoboForm. I downloaded and installed the free trial version thinking I’d try it out to see if it was helpful.

Honestly, I thought I’d probably just stick with the Free version, thinking I didn’t have that many passwords I’d really want to use it with and the free version lets you store 10. Now that my trial is up and I’ve got over 150 passwords I’m storing, I’ve made the decision to upgrade and stay with the Pro version.
What …read more

Did you know that 2008 was a dual leap year? Probably not since I made up the whole "dual leap year" tag, but what I do mean is that we had a February 29th this year and we’ll also have an extra leap second added to our clocks tomorrow night.
The problem is that Microsoft won’t really catch up with that second until later.
It turns out the deal is that Microsoft doesn’t recognize (or ignores) the alert in the atomic time codes that says a leap second is being added to the time adjustment. When the leap second is …read more

I’m trying to get things back online and organized on my laptop for working with clients. One of the things I used to do is have many of the frequently used files for clients set to be available offline when I’m disconnected from our network.
The problem was that I quickly ran out of available free space on my hard drive to maintain all the files I may need along with those programs and options that are run locally from the machine all the time.
Here’s my question, can I easily redirect and RELY on moving my default offline files location …read more

For my “day” job, I work with a number of custom database applications that we develop. One of them being our complete task, CRM, project management solution. Normally, my business partner and I are connected to each other through the same network or a switch so I can almost always see his machine and run off a single copy of the SQL database back end connection.
Today though is a different story, I ended up having to work remotely at a coffee shop so needed to run off my local back-up copy of the database. The only problem is that when …read more

One of the new features of the recently upgraded version of ActiveSync for PocketPC is a troubleshooter feature. Screen shot of some of the steps it goes through is below.

The only problem with it for me is that it said I wasn’t running Outlook 2000 or later. I’m running the Outlook 2007 beta which is later, but obviously I understand the issue being it’s beta software.
I think this little troubleshooter should help more people though using more standard installations and needing some help or solutions to their problems. You can also send the results to Microsoft when there are problems. …read more