Issues:
Today I got complains from one of my co-workers saying he could not open the Leave Request Outlook form, which designed by me a long while ago and put in the Oragnization Form library.
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Can not resist the media teasing about the new browser from Google - Chrome. Here is the installation I conducted today.
First of first, you need to download it from Google Chrome website which is hard for the public to find from its main site or the link from Google’s main page. The link is http://www.google.com/chrome
And you can choose Save or Open when you see the download dialog window. For me, I just used Save in case I need to install on other machines too.
Continue reading ‘New Google Browser Chrome Installed (with pictures)’
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I need to post a serial how-to in Outlook for some of my clients. This one is part of “how to create email distribute list” and copy & paste from this website.
If you have e-mail addresses or other contact information in a program and want to import the data into Microsoft Outlook, follow the steps below.
Export and Convert the Data
Use the program’s export or save as feature to save the data into a “Comma Separated Value (.cvs) file to enable it to be imported to the Outlook Contact list.
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Open the .csv file with Microsoft Excel or another program to prepare the data for export.
- The open file should be similar to the image shown below.
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To successfully import these addresses over to Outlook proper labels must be assigned to the enteries in the Excel file. Insert a row above the current list of entries. Name the three column headings as Nick Name, Full Name and E-mail Address appropriately.
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The Excel file should look like the image shown below.
- Save the Excel spreadsheet as a ” Comma Separated Value ” file with a .csv extension on to your Desktop.
- Click Yes if prompted to retain the format of the Excel file and then close the Excel program.
Continue reading ‘How to create email distribute list: import contacts into Outlook contacts easily’
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Last Friday, I spent half of my day on helping my friend to clean up its Outlook files. The main reason was that he kept all his emails since day one and the mail box was too huge to accept any new incoming emails (not sure the limitation on PST file from Microsoft is now still 2GB or not). I understand the importance of archiving correspondences between clients and my friend, so my strategy was to split all emails into a few PST (Personal Folders File) files which would be under the size limitation. And at the meanwhile, I set up an auto archive mechanism to move old emails to other pst file in the future automatically.
I know I was supposed to send him a detail instructions on how to do such things as my promised. But I could not get close to the computer during my busy weekend. So I am publishing all my steps here today, for him it will be a instruction via URL; and for all of you (include myself), a future reference post.
Continue reading ‘How to organize the large email boxes in Microsoft Outlook’
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Just wanted to explore some add-ons after I installed the final version of Firefox 3.0 today. I found this add-on named TwitterFox in Get Add-ons Tab after I clicked Tools –> Add-Ons option. Excitedly installed it since I am using Twitter accounts now. But after the TwitterFox installation, my firefox 3.0 acted very wired. I could not bring the Firefox screen focused. It always hid in the taskbar, and the left/right click of my mouse did not even work at all on FireFox in the taskbar.
Continue reading ‘How to disable/remove/uninstall incompatible add-ons in Firefox’
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I really tried to help Mozilla to make the Guinness Record for the most downloaded software within 24 hours. But unfortunately the poor preparation of Mozilla made it very difficult for me to even get on the website. I tried from 1:40pm (Eastern time, 40 minutes after the official release time) to 2:40pm and could not connect to the website. I am sure it was because too many people were connecting to the website at that moment, but Mozilla should have known better before it put such statement as Make Guinness Record on its website to promote Firefox and lure everybody.
I put some available screenshots below and hope the poor website will be back soon.
Mozilla.com which hosts Firefox and Thunderbird was down with “Service Unavailable” error message
And the FireFox could not connect to the download page of Firefox 3.0 on Spreadfirefox website
Finally, I even tried the Firefox Check Updates… feature and no luck at all.
[Updated: the website is back now, it is not too late to download the firefox 3.0 and make the Guinness Record now before 18:00 EST 6/18/2008]
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If you like FireFox browser as I do, then I would suggest you do not miss today’s event: to download Firefox 3.0 final and to make the world record since today (6/17/2008 10 PDT) is the official release time for FireFox 3.0 Final.
But the final build of Firefox is now available for download on the FTP server. I could not resist and already grabbed my download and installed. (I will download again as soon as its official release becomes available because my downloading will help Set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours)
IMPORTANT: Downloads from FTP server and direct links will not count towards the Guinness World Record attempt for the most software downloads in a day. If participation in this event is important to you, wait for the official release.
Continue reading ‘Get Firefox 3.0 final and make the record’
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Challenge:
When I was approached by a co-worker to come up a quick solution to design a training registration application. The requirement is to display all upcoming training events in calendar view and allow users to register to each training. And upon the registration is submitted, the training department and the user’s supervisor should receive notifications immediately (although not required now, but might need the approval from the supervisor in later development). The deadline is very…, how to say it, … how about this afternoon. Well, while the co-worker asked how to design the database tables and asp.net coding, I suggested why not giving the SharePoint a shot. Since I am the one proposed, then I had to create it for her.
Well, that was what I came up so far. In our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server System (MOSS) 2007 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS), I created a calendar list to display training events; in the calendar item there was a link to another new created survey list acting as a registration form. Then I added a workflow to the survey so that emails will be sent out whenever a new response is added into the survey (or register list).
Everything is working fine, but however, the workflow does not start. Instead, the status of the workflow appears as Failed to Start.
Trouble-Shootings:
I searched this issue on Google, and I found out a lot of people had the similar errors before. Someone pointed out the cause was the user of application pool who should be Network Services instead of a user with administrative right; Someone suggested to re-active the workflow feature in SharePoint Application server; Someone asked whether it was done in SharePoint Designer 2007.
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Today I tried to copy and paste an email in Outlook 2003 but found out the SELECT ALL function of my mouse did not work. I could not highlight any texts in the mail body, and I could not even see the copy & paste options and the whole context menu by right clicking my mouse.
Since I know I configured in the Outlook to use Microsoft Word 2003 as the primary email compose tool, I opened a new Word Window to see how things do in the Word. Same thing happened in Microsoft Word 2003, I could not use all my mouse right clicking.
Continue reading ‘Cannot use right click or drag/drop of mouse in Microsoft Word and Outlook 2003′
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Who loves listening to Internet Radio while you are working or coding? Yes, it is me. I like Internet Radios, and that is why I think the Internet is so great. Since I like music, especially listening Chinese songs while I am coding to stop the outside world from interrupting me at that moment, I sometimes use online stream radio to enjoy the no-stop new/old music playing because the traditional radio wave can not cross the ocean for me.
But suddenly I could not connect to some of my favorite Internet Radio stations any more, name a few, Taiwan Kiss Radio, etc. This made me very frustrated, since I could not be focused on coding without radio music. But the trouble shoot for this issue made me more frustrated. I tried to close all my anti-virus, and google search on “can not listen online radio” return invalid solutions.
After a few days of listening to CD music, I figure out the problem was caused by one of Microsoft’s recent updates. MS just upgraded my Windows Media Player from version 10 to version 11. And for no reason, starting from Windows Media Player 11, it does not support mms:// protocol any more. And a lot of radio stations are still using mms:// instead of rstp:// protocol.
I know it is so stupid for doing such thing on a so-called popular stream audio/video player. But hi, it is MICROSOFT. What is the difference of rstp:// and mms:// anyway.
OK, to get back my Internet Radios, my only choice is to un-install Windows Media Player 11 and use the previous version of Media Player (Unfortunately all of my favorite online radios do not use Realplay stream format, it is sad).
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This tips came from my mailbox as a training company’s newsletter, and I would like to share with you all since I feel it might be useful to you too. Based on the email, it should be working on versions of Excel 97/2000/2002/v. X/2003.
You’ll occasionally find that seemingly simple entries cause problems because Excel tries to interpret numeric values as a date. For instance, say that you have a column of product codes with values like 9-12, 10-22, and 8-2099, or you have data labels that describe the age ranges 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12. Excel automatically converts the codes to 12-Sep, 22-Oct, and Aug-99. Likewise, Excel converts the range labels to 3-Jan, 6-Apr, 9-Jul, and 12-Oct.
Continue reading ‘How to easily enter numeric characters as text strings in Excel’
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Challenge: This afternoon, a co-worker came to me and ask my help to retrieve her forgotten admin password for HP Web JetAdmin login. The situation was that she had been using another created profile too often to remember the default admin account logon credential. She tried the default password ‘admin’ but it did not work.
First, I asked whether this software uses any database to store password since I thought we can open any database tables. She said there was a MS SQL server installed on the server but she did not think we are using the database server now.
Then I figured it might use the flat file to store such user credential information, even I trusted such big company as HP would not do so. But anyway, I asked to take a look at the Web Jetadmin server. And I hope I can figure something more out from the web server logon script.
Continue reading ‘How to get back the default admin access to HP Web Jetadmin’
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I have removed all McAfee services, like Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, but I still could not proceed when I last tried to uninstall the McAfee Security Services Center. The error message was:”…you need to uninstall all McAfee Security Services first…“.
Continue reading ‘How to uninstall McAfee Security Center when it said it can not be uninstalled’
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Since last week (at least I think from then) I could not open any attached emails in my Office Outlook 2003 any more. When some one forwarded an email to me with the original emails as an attachment, I clicked the attached email but nothing happened. Even I saved it as a msg file, but I could not open and read it in Outlook 2003 by double clicking as I used to.
I did not relate this problem with my Google Desktop till I checked on the web. It Seems that anyone who enabled latest version of Google Search add-in in Outlook 2003 would have the similar problem. Besides the attached emails, they could not open the added email items in the Calendar appointments. The version of Google Desktop Personal could be 5.5 beta, or similar version of Google Desktop Enterprise. I checked mine, which is Google Desktop 5.5.0709.30344-en-pb.
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