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Office 2007 and the Live Office Popup window keeps popping up. Here’s how to remove it.

Have office? Want to get rid of that annoying “have you tried live office yet?” popup, that just doesn’t go away? Create a new file on your desktop, called “officefix.txt” Paste this into it; Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\OfficeLive] "FirstRunCredsDeleted"=dword:00000001 "FirstRunDontShow"=dword:00000001 Then rename that file to “officefix.reg” Double click it to add it to [...]

July 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Howto, Software, Windows | 1 Comment

Just returned from Microsoft Tech Days 2008 in Ottawa

And I got a buttload of free stuff from Tech Days 2008. Including, but not limited to – a Microsoft sticker, a cool toque, a spoon that also functions as a pen, a technet 6 month subscription, tech ed dvd sets, vs pro 2008, expression web, and a bunch of demo software. All in all [...]

November 27th, 2008 | Posted in Personal, Tech, Windows | No Comments

Illustrator or Photoshop “Unknown Error” when saving or can’t use type tool. Fixed!

No thanks to Adobe, even after numerous complaints going all the way back to Creative Suite 1, if you have a bad font on your system, you may have issues saving as an .ai in Illustrator. You’ll get the dreaded “an unknown error has occured”. If you disable PDF compatibility, it will save, but that’s [...]

November 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Howto, Ramblings, Software, Windows | 3 Comments

The Gimp is better than Photoshop when it comes to Arabic or other Right to Left typefaces.

Recently we had to do some work in Arabic for a client of ours. We had never used Arabic in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator before. So when the client asked “you can do Arabic” the response was “oh yeah of course” without giving it a second thought. Windows supports Arabic, so in turn Adobe [...]

November 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Howto, Ramblings, Software, Tech, Windows | 1 Comment

Setting up Split-Split DNS with Windows SBS 2003 DNS Services, easily.

Have you ever wondered how you could access your external hostnames, internal to your network connected via wifi, mobile devices or just plain old desktops? Today we found out we needed to. Our mobile devices require the use of external hostnames to sync data against. And it’s nice being able to use our external hostname [...]

July 13th, 2008 | Posted in Howto, Software, Tech, Windows, Windows Mobile | 7 Comments

Become Part of History – Download Firefox 3

We downloaded ours, have you? Today you’ll make history with Firefox Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Posted in Linux, Personal, Tech, Windows | No Comments

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