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Microsoft Outlook Mail Statistics

Outlook Stats View is another interesting application by popular software developer Nirsoft. The software program scans the Microsoft Outlook mailbox and will display statistics about every contact found. The email analyzer will scan incoming and outgoing emails and display various statistics that are computed during the scan. It will add every user to the usual [...]

Author: , Tuesday May 19, 2009
Categories: Email

Fix Slow Or Hanging Thunderbird Email Client

Thunderbird is a desktop email client that is seen by many as a viable alternative to Microsoft Outlook on the Windows operating system. Users who use the client heavily might experience slow downs or lags when using the desktop email client after some time. This can usually be attributed to corrupted msf files in the [...]

Author: , Tuesday May 19, 2009
Categories: Email

Install Packetfence for outstanding network access control

Network Access Control is a crucial aspect of medium to large scale networking. There are many tools to help you control who has access to your network; Some of these tools are quite pricey and some of them do not do what you need them to do. There is one NAC tool that is open [...]

Author: , Monday May 18, 2009
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Software, Tutorials Advanced

Open XML Viewer For Microsoft Word 2007

We have covered Open XML Viewer in November 2008 when it was released as a technical preview which was available for the Firefox web browser on both the Windows and Linux operating system. The program was able to display docx documents as html documents. The conversion did however ignore several objects and elements in the [...]

Author: , Monday May 18, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

About Relevant Knowledge

Relevant Knowledge came to my attention for the first time when Transcontinental mentioned that the latest version of the popular software updater SUMO contained the additional installation. I soon discovered that all applications by the software developer, and several other popular ones like MediaCoder, contained the program. Lets discuss how Relevant Knowledge gets on the [...]

Author: , Monday May 18, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Prevent Power Saving Mode Of External Hard Drives

Some external hard drives that are connected via USB, eSATA or Firewire to a computer system have the annoying habit of going into power saving mode after ten to fifteen minutes. While this is not problematic at the time it becomes so when it leaves the power saving mode as this causes a system wide [...]

Author: , Monday May 18, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Video Inspector Displays Video Codecs Information

It sometimes can be quite difficulty to find out why a video is not playing properly on a computer system. This is even more true for inexperienced users who usually solve the problem by installing yet another codec package. That’s obviously not the best way of dealing with the matter as the installation of codec [...]

Author: , Monday May 18, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

5 Tips To Reduce The Size Of Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations

Microsoft PowerPoint presentations can take up lots of hard drive space. The size of the presentations depends largely on the multimedia content – that is pictures, videos and audio – that has been added to the presentation by its creator. While this usually is not a big problem for presentations that do not have to [...]

Author: , Monday May 18, 2009
Categories: Tutorials Basic

Configure Linux printing via web browser

One of the issues surrounding Linux is the fact that, because there are so many distributions, there are so many ways to configure various aspects of the operating system. One such aspect is printing. Each distribution has its own way of configuring a printer. However, because of CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) you have a [...]

Author: , Sunday May 17, 2009
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

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