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Applications

Roaming Local Settings in Office 2010

by Aaron Parker on December 10, 2009

in Applications

Good news! Office 2010 fixes the Office 2007 issue, where-by you need to resort to implementing fixes yourself, to get Quick Access Toolbar and the new customisable Ribbon to roam between computers. You’ll have to remember to enable this option yourself though – create a Setup customisation with the Office Customisation Tool and enable the [...]

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Use a PAC file to make proxy settings dynamic

by Aaron Parker on June 23, 2009

in Applications

Are you deploying browser proxy settings by setting a proxy server and attempting to manage a proxy bypass list? There is a better way..
Fortunately Jason Curnow, who’s had many years experience working with PAC files, has a website where he’s documented his experiences and shows you how to create your own – The Proxy PAC [...]

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Pismo File Mount for using ISOs in Windows 7

by Aaron Parker on March 18, 2009

in Applications

My old favourite Daemon Tools just hasn’t been working in Windows 7, so I’ve been on the look out for another tool for mounting ISOs. I haven’t really liked other tools like CloneDrive or PowerISO, but I’ve come across Psimo File Mount (via My Digital Life, I think) which so far has been working a [...]

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Flash Player 10 Available, Still No x64 Support

by Aaron Parker on October 15, 2008

in Applications

Adobe have made Flash Player 10 available, but unfortunately there’s still no support for 64-bit browsers, but then Silverlight 2 doesn’t have 64-bit support either.
If you’re looking to install Flash Player 10 on Presentation Server/XenApp, make sure you’ve got XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 first or hotfix PSE450R02W2K3028 for Presentation Server 4.5 Hotfix Rollup Pack 3 [...]

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My Product Code Is Bigger Than Yours..

by Aaron Parker on August 28, 2008

in Applications

I thought 25 character product keys where a pain in the proverbial, but this one takes the cake. I won’t tell you which application this authorisation code is for, but it’s a whopping 93 characters long..
[quickcode:noclick]AF3KALKNHEU777AGRBZ672EKB6I53P6VRND7PLPHCVFWGNSDNB4WYK55HE7YX2TWTLU78M8KLYZ4QERNT3K56OH6TSAXC[/quickcode]
(I’ve changed the code slightly to protect the guilty).

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What happened here today was a miracle

by Aaron Parker on August 6, 2008

in Applications

“and I want you to f**king acknowledge it!”

I kid you not, this is a error message I saw yesterday in an Oracle Forms application.

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Free MSI Editor: InstEd

by Aaron Parker on July 31, 2008

in Applications

I haven’t used Orca to edit MSI files since I found Camwood appEditor around November last year. Since then though, appEditor has become has become InstEd and it’s even better than its’ predecessor.

This is a great way to edit MSI files and create transforms, being able to see the MSI with the Components and [...]

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