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Michael's Technology BlogAll Things Technology 07 March SEO Meeting Held at Pinstripe Service HQHad a great meeting today from our boss Dan Colby. Lots of SEO information about www.pinstripeservices.com 03 March Good article on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and AJAXWe have been doing more and more consulting on SEO in our business, while also looking into utilizing the power of AJAX. This is a good article on what to consider as you create AJAX pages with SEO in mind. We may link to it via www.pinstripeservices.com.
09 January Essential Sys Admin ToolsOver the years I have accumulated some essential tools for sys admin tasks. Please feel free to send this email and tools to anyone you know in the business. This suite of tools is the essential toolkits for any IT provider who goes onsite to assist clients. Also this is the essential action pack for any IT audit or analysis.
They all meet the following requirements.
Links to the attached apps are as follows
One item I did not include in the attachment was OpenOffice portable (due to its size, around 300 MB). This is great when you need to interact with Office documents, but do not have office installed on a server. http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
Links that led to this list originally 03 November Sync Podcast with Windows Media Player using the IE7 RSS feed capabilityRecently the newest version of Windows Internet Explorer 7 was just released. One of the new functions of the IE7 release is the ability to use the app as a RSS feed reader, including capability to download associated files. The most common type of associated file is a podcast. With the current version of Windows Media Player 10 and reportedly with the upcoming version 11 there is no native podcast support. Since Itunes has had this support for some time I have been striving to achieve that same functionality in my Windows Media environment. In the past I have used podcast applications such as ipodder to manage my podcasts feeds and files. Then using a very helpful blog post from Jake Luddingtons's MediaBlab I would synchronize the podcast mp3 files to my Treo 700w through the auto playlist feature in Windows Media Player. This works great and you can find the instructions here and the method works with any device that can sync with WMP. However I wanted to take out the extra step of using a podcast reader application (we all know XP runs best when you have as few applications loaded as possible) and use the built in functionality of IE7. IE7 by default downloads RSS associated files to the temporary internet file folder on your workstation. The way to confirm this is to go to your RSS feed subscription in IE7 and checks the properties of the downloaded mp3. Once you have confirmed the location use the method on Jake Luddingtion's blog to setup an autoplaylist that looks to your temporary internet file folder on your workstation. Wait for the files to be found (took my windows media player a few minutes) and you have a native podcast method within XP. Sadly after doing some research it appears that the file location of RSS feed associated files cannot be changed at this time. One other tip is to make sure you change the number of updates to the RSS feed your browser will keep. By default it is 200, which is way too many podcasts. The number of updates equals the number of podcasts in the past it will keep in storage. If you need more details feel free to email post comments and I will do my best. Enjoy. |
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