Thursday, May 23, 2013

If you are unable to send email via your SMTP server, it can be difficult to determine the reason.  ISP's are usualy little help so it's left up to you to figure it out.  Using a Telnet session, you can manually issue the commands that Outlook or another email client would and test the connection.

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Got a new PC with Windows 8?  Totally confused?

Dell is offering a free ebook (PDF) edition of Windows 8 for Dummies in exchange for your info.  Go to http://marketing.dell.com/windows-8-ebook to get your copy.

Are you beyond the dummy stage?  Then get Microsoft's free ebook (PDF, epub, mobi) Windows 8 for IT Pros at http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2012/11/23/free-ebook-windows-8-for-it-pros.aspx.

When is a hard drive crash not a hard drive crash?  When your machine is infected with Windows Recovery scamware (or a variant therof).

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You’ve seen them but may not be aware of how useful they can be. I’m referring to Quick Response codes – those small squares full of dots that you have started seeing everywhere. They are actually a fancy form of a bar code – a 2 dimensional block of dots instead of a strip of vertical lines.

Wwww.neotechitc.comhat makes them so useful is that you can pack a lot more information into a small area. Combine that with the ability for most smartphones to scan and decode these codes and you now have a way to pass information along very easily.  You can generate a QR code for just about anything, a web site (URL), contact information, a calendar event, etc.

With the right software on your smartphone, you can scan this code and jump right to this web site.

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If you're looking for a template to help you get started on an Excel spreadsheet or other Office document, check Vertex42.  They offer a good collection of free spreadsheet templates.

Do you need a quick reference for Microsoft, Mac, or Adobe products?

Customguide.com offers free, downloadable, printable Quick Reference cards for popular software such as Office and Photoshop.

Need even more cheatsheets?  Check http://www.cheat-sheets.org/.

MakeUseOf also offers cheatsheets and guides at http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/ (a free subscription is required).

Have you ever needed to send a file to someone but it was too big to email?  Concerned about it sitting on some intermediate server for a while?

There are several sites to help you send large files but not very many as simple as SendoidSendoid is an on demand, peer-to-peer file transfer system.  Files are sent directly from your computer to the recipients (and encrypted along the way) without passing through any intermediate servers.  Sendoid's web interface limits total transfer size based on the resource availability of your local machine, usually somewhere between 600MB and 1gb.  So you should be able to send an entire CD to someone else.

If you need to send Joe a file, just go to the Sendoid site, select the file that you want to send and whether or not you want to add password security.  In a couple of seconds, you'll get a custom URL that you can email to Joe.  When he clicks the link, your computers establish a secured connection and the file is transferred from your machine to his.  Just be sure that you do not close your browser or navigate away from the page or you'll break the link and the transfer will fail.

The next time that you need to send someone a big file, try this.

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