Category: How To
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iOS: Make the screen darker than the darkest setting
If you’re like me, your iPhone doesn’t stray far from you at any time, and is on your nightstand during the night. If you’re like me, you might also enjoy reading or something like that before sleep. If you’re like me, you find the darkest setting on the iPhone screen to be a bit too…
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WordPress: Set an expiry date on a post
From time to time, you may want to have a post expire at a preset date. Maybe you’re running a campaign, maybe you’ve got a survey going, or maybe you simply know that a specific post will stop to be relevant at a specific date. Whatever the reason, you want it to disappear, at a preset date.…
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WordPress: Make a post sticky
As you may have noticed, there has been a sticky post at the top of the page for the last two weeks or so. A reader actually emailed me and asked how I accomplished that. As it turns out, making a post sticky in WordPress is very easy to do. (By the way, a sticky post…
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Change password in a remote desktop session
Most Windows users will be familiar with using Ctrl+Alt+Del to change their password on a local computer, and that works well for that purpose. However, that command is not forwarded to a computer to which you are connected remotely, as it triggers locally. So how, then, can we prompt a change of our password without waiting for it…
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Add shortcut to all desktops
From time to time, you may, as an administrator, find it useful to ensure that all users have some common shortcuts. Luckily, ensuring that shortcuts are distributed to all desktops is easy enough to accomplish. Here’s how: Find or create the shortcut you want to deploy Open Explorer, and navigate to C:\users\Public\Desktop Copy the shortcut into…
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Reducing the size of your Powerpoint presentations
On a surprisingly regular basis, I get requests from users who want to send Powerpoint-presentations via email, but are stopped because the presentations are too big. 30 MB isn’t uncommon, and just the other day, I had someone with a presentation of a whopping 75 MB. The main culprit behind the issue they are seeing,…
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Citrix: Keyboard input fails on Mac OS X
A user called in, saying that she was having problems with her email client on Citrix. I quickly established that she was using a Mac, and that she was able to open and read emails, as well as start a reply, but that no keyboard input seemed to show up when she was writing an email. I next…
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Adding external recipients in Exchange
A few weeks ago, we looked at groups in Exchange. Sometimes, you need to be able to add external recipients, too. Here’s how we create those: Open your Microsoft Exchange console Browse to Recipient Configuration > Mail Contact In the right-hand pane, click “New Mail Contact”: Go through the Wizard, specifying the OU as appropriate. The address should be…
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Adding users to Exchange Distribution Group
Last week, I showed you how you can create distribution groups. Those groups are relatively worthless, however, without any users added to them. How we go about doing this, depends on what console you decide to use. Exchange console: Open your Microsoft Exchange console Browse to Recipient Configuration > Distribution Group Find the group in question,…
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Creating a Distribution Group in Exchange
Distribution Groups, commonly referred to as mailing lists, are practical tools to send email to a number of people, without having to grab each address from the address book. They are also pretty simple to create. Here is how it’s done: Exchange console: Open your Microsoft Exchange console Browse to Recipient Configuration > Distribution Group…