Friday, March 23, 2007

I needed a time clock to keep track of what time it is where all my employees, contractors and clients are located.
I have people working for me in New Zealand, China, London, and USA.
I have clients in New Zealand and Australia.
Google helped me find this cool little application.

Running on your PC Time Zone Clock will show you the local time of over 300 cities around the world. Simply select the cities you want to display the local time and they will be displayed on your desktop. Time Zone Clock you will always know the local time in New York, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo or any city you require anywhere in the world.

World time zones available on you PC.
Download Time Zone Clock NOW

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Windows Sharepoint Services 2 and Office 2007

I have an SBS server running Windows Sharepoint Services 2 and I have Office 2007 installed across my network.
Straight away I discovered that my Office 2007 documents were not supported by WSS2.

However there is a fix for the icon and file association issues.

David Overton has the how to and the images
The only correction to his post I found was that I needed to copy the images from the gif-dark folder to the IMAGES folder.

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New Tools Roundup

Tech News Website - TechMeme

Tip of the Day site presents UnDelete Plus

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to retrieve accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. And, it’s FREE.

MSN Screensaver
With the new MSN Screen Saver (Beta) you can:

* Personalize with background photos and news and weather information from MSN® or any RSS feeds from websites you choose.
* Search the Web and click news headlines directly from the Screen Saver.
* Stay connected with MSN Hotmail®, MSN Messenger, and MSN Spaces. Track how many unread Hotmail messages and current Messenger conversations you have, and display blogs and photos from your friends’ MSN Spaces.

GeekBrief Podcasts - Geeky vlog

MoBuzz TV Tech vlog - cute presenter!

WallStrip - stock culture meets pop culture

Unofficial Office Stuff - Pixel Squeezing - reducing picture size in powerpoint shows

Robin Good - Visual Communication And Online Image Editing Tools - The Best From Sharewood - as it says - a comprehensive list along with mini reviews of image editing software.

Delicious Bookmarks
This extension integrates your browser with del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), the leading social bookmarking service on the Web. It does this by augmenting the bookmarking functionality in Firefox with an enhanced experience that offers the following advantages:

- Search and browse your bookmarks
- Access your bookmarks from any computer at any time
- Keep your bookmarks organized with tags
- Share your bookmarks with friends or anyone on the Web
- Import your existing Firefox bookmarks

Slipstick - Outlook 2007 - whats new
Outlook 2007, formerly known as Outlook 12, is scheduled to be released later this year and has a number of cool new or improved features that should prove popular with users. The following is a list of my top 10 favorite Outlook 2007 features and the reasons I like them, in no particular order.

Gliffy.com This is a pretty cool collaborative diagramming web 2.0 tool.

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