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We’ve changed the theme on the blog for two reasons:

1. We fancied a change.
2. The theme previously used didn’t support Google Analytics out of the box.

We could have modified the theme to support Google Analytics, but it was easier to use an alternative Wordpress theme. If you’ve never considered using Google Analytics then check it out as it is very simple to implement and produces some very interesting and comprehensive reports.

A number of other minor issues were fixed by switching themes so we hope people find the change to their liking. Let us know if you have any issues or problems.

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The Matrix as you’ve never seen it! We’re sure it will look familiar to all you Windows users.

Technorati Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft, Morpheus,   Neo, The Matrix, Windows, XP

For many years now we’ve know that WEP is broken and more recently a new attack have revealed it to be very broken indeed with sub one minute cracking being demonstrated.

Some vendors have proposed a technique known as “Chaffing” as a way to fix WEP. This excellent presentation from DefCon15 informs us of the truth!

WEP is broken and it will remains broken so don’t be using it ever, ever. Instead use WPA or WPA2 with a good quality passphrase being used when the personal versions (pre-shared key) are implemented.

Technorati Tags: aircrack, chaffing, security, WEP, wireless networking, WPA, WPA2

Don’t abuse your computer when you get frustrated as they have been known to fight back!

Technorati Tags: computer, funny, humor, humour

Goodness, students need never run a dodgy copy of Microsoft Office for they can get the full blown Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for £38.95. Now that is a true WOW moment.

Checkout the deal over on The Ultimate Steal website.

[Source: Dave Overton's Blog]

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Office, Office 2007, special offer, student

Larry, one of our readers, has contacted us with the following suggestion to improve/fix the Office 2007 version of Business Contact Manager (BCM).

Subject: How to speed up Outlook 2007 and BCM

Message: If you could post this it could help everyone.

Outlook with BCM installs SQL Server 2005 express. If left unchecked SQL Server will eat all the memory in the PC. If the Max Memory is set to a reasonable number like 256 to 512MB systems will speed up by not running out of memory. I took another route and upgrade to 4GB and all performance issues disappeared.

BTW your tips on this were most helpful. Thanks.

On behalf of everyone who finds this useful… thanks Larry.

We’d rather leave it uninstalled and use another customer relationship management (CRM) solution, especially when Outlook 2007 struggles enough without loading it up with BCM! This is a real shame as we can see the benefit of using BCM for the small business customer.

How many of you are using BCM and Outlook 2007? Please share your experiences and issues. We’ll feedback any issues and problems to Microsoft if you can supply details on how to reproduce the problems or if you can at least provide detailed info on the symptoms.

Technorati Tags: BCM, business contact manager, CRM, customer relationship management, Microsoft Office, Office 2007, Outlook 2007

Continuing our geek saying series:

Alert! User Error.
Please replace user and press any key to continue!

Technorati Tags: funny, humor, humour, geek saying, user error

Are you concerned about identity theft? Are you using file sharing programs? We’ll you really should read this story and then there is this YouTube video:

If you aren’t sure about how to configure file sharing programs to ensure this doesn’t happen to you then maybe its time to look towards the “Add/Remove programs” controllet in the Control Panel and remove these applications once and for all.

Technorati Tags: file sharing, identity theft