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Entries from November 2006

Office 2007 version comparisons

November 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Microsoft Office 2007, released to corporations and developers today, has a new naming convention as well as numerous new features. below is a chart taken from Microsoft’s Open Volume License site that details what version of the ‘old’ Office corresponds to the new one, as well as some product renames and changes.

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iTunes and the KISS of death

November 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

In an interesting development, the KISS Alive box set that was on iTunes yesterday for $1.49 is now a more realistic $39.96, and all comments posted by users have been deleted. Additionally, the album now contains 69 tracks as opposed to 70 yesterday.

Very curious as to what happened here, and even more curious how [...]

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Rename an Entourage Exchange account or domain using Applescript

November 15th, 2006 · No Comments

I recently had the need to automate the taks of renaming both the Exchange account name and domain name for a few dozen remote users. As opposed to writing up directions and risking that they a)wouldn’t do it or b)would make a mistake, I opted to go the route of making it easy for them.
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A touching goodbye to a technology legend

November 14th, 2006 · No Comments

via http://scottmcdaniel.org/w/archives/245
n late 2004, we were introduced to someone who made the lives of our fledgling company much easier. Today, that old friend is leaving us for good. He had some hard times, but he also worked hard. He was a dedicated servant to the company and weathered many a storm. Sometimes he was powerless, [...]

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Use the Force to control your Mac, via Lilt

November 14th, 2006 · No Comments

An excellent new app called ‘Lilt’ is out from Jon Nathan, the maker of such Mac gems as Docktop and Preferential Treatment.
Lilt allows you to control your Mac using the ambient light and sudden motion sensors on 2004+ iBooks/Powerbooks/Macbooks. By assigning actions to specific criteria (example: if the left light sensor goes darker by 25%, [...]

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