Bob Hanley

Mark Miller:

when using phone support (HP, for instance), select Spanish, and you'll get routed to Texas, where the phone people speak Spanish *and* English. Might work for Dell too??

Dell now has Hardware Diagnostics boot on a small partition (??) available from the F12 Boot Selection menu.

Bill T: "Don't let the Client order the Hardware"

Also, Kim Komando's web site and newsletters: www.Komando.com

George: "In 1890, the Toilet got standardized, and it's been going downhill ever since".

Don't let the customers order whatever they want, in the way of cell phones and communications infrastructure.

Dan Meyer: Acrobat Reader 7 has just been released. It caused Dan some real problems on his XP machine. www.adobe.com/acrobat

OldVersion.com

SnapFiles.com

IRS is re-doing their PDF files, so that Acrobat 6.0 will be the minimum required.

www.irs.gov

Form creation in Adobe Acrobat 6.0, Standard vs. Pro: Bob Hanley says that The Acrobat Bible says you can't make a fillable form in the Standard version. Bill T will check this out.

Sheldon Penner: Tech Alliance getting started in Portland. March 15 is the first meeting.

He does Disaster Recovery. www.r-tt.com has the best recovery tool, $50-$80

If you use the Demo version, and let it do all of its granular searching, and then buy the software, you have to start your search All Over Again.

Handout on Computing Best Practices.

LauriJean Harris: is teaching a relational database design course.

Leszynski Naming Convention.

How to name objects in your database design.

How to exchange data among Office applications.

HelenFeddema.com/codesamples.htm

"Buy 2 bottles of Salad Dressing, get a Free* PDA" advertisement.

John Locke: Woody's Office Watch. Woody Leonard. office-watch.com

Office productivity tips for Users and Tech People.

John Locke: problem installing an iPod on a Windows XP machine: install routine created a Registry key, but then was unable to access the key it had just made.

Bob Killillay: www.sipnsearch.com

BNS Enterprises

Microsoft is good about waiving any tech support call charges, if it's an SP-2-related matter.

OnForce.com (formerly ComputerRepair.com) is contracting with individuals to give us additional clients, and they pay directly into your account.

onforce.com

Excellent response from post card mailings to his existing customer base, about 300 customers on the list.

George: TangShop.com, lots of data cables for cellphones

Bill T (thanks to John Locke); www.Mepis.org, free boot-from-CD Linux flavor, easy install, also article on Mepis.org re: data recovery from a Windows hard drive.

Bill T: CloudMark Anti-Spam and Anti-Fraud, from www.CloudMark.com: auto-magic Spam Filtering, for Outlook and Outlook Express.

[Bill T: send Twiki URL to Gina, and when it's working on Thomassen.org, send her the demo site]

Bill T: Kim Komando's syndicated Computer Help radio show and web site: www.Komando.com

John Locke: OpenSourceProviders.com using a Twiki system.

Also see WikiPedia.org, highly recommended.