IT edge

Trying to upload or delete files on a FTP server located behind a ISA 2004 firewall results in “access denied” messages. This due to the fact that FTP rules are setup as “Read Only” by default. To enable write/modify/delete permissions, right-click on the FTP rule, choose to configure FTP, uncheck the “Read Only” checkbox. John [...]

Troubleshooting connections using Exchange 2003 Direct Push to Windows Mobile based phones. Exchnage Driect Push technology piggy backs on the Exchange OMA service which can be access via a web page or through the local Windows Mobile client. When the DirectPush will not make a connection to the local Windows Mobile mail client you may [...]

Microsoft Research is developing a new Browser Protection technology called “Browser Shield” to help protect Internet Explorer and the Operating System from exploits. An article published on the Microsoft Research web site entitled, “Browsers: Helping Make the Web Safe for Surfers” describes the goal of the research project and the types of protection methods Browser Shield [...]

I am testing the ‘Flash Filter Plus’ Plug-in for WordPress. It allows you to insert a mp3 file into a post and use an embedded flash player to play the file. This plug-in has a very simple installation of copying a couple of files in a folder ot the plugins firectory then activating it through [...]

Open the MSN Toolbar ‘Options’ Go to the ‘General’ tab Choose ‘Other search service’ in the ‘Web search service’ area. Type the following string into the text field (without the quote marks): “http://www.google.com/search?q=$w”. Click OK.

DNS Servers for forwarding internal DNS traffic upstream to: AT&T 12.127.16.68 12.127.17.72

Google’s Gmail keeps the interface clean and simple. There is a small one line text based add at the top of the email box frame. The user interface is simple but not usable as the Windows Live Mail in my opinion. Microsoft Windows Live Mail has two huge banner ads one at the top and [...]

While is not as easy or nice as the AdBlock extension in FireFox, you can still block Ads in Internet Explorer. The setup doesn’t remove the ad frames or space from web paes such as the FireFox does, however it prevents ads from being downloaded to the browser which saves bandwidth and saves from the [...]

This will move Firefox & Thunderbird to your hard drive when you minimize it, and use less than 10MB of memory while minimized. Do the following: Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean. In the box that pops up [...]

Yesterday a rumor was going around on the blogosphere that Google was getting ready to launch it’s instant messaging and VOiP client. Apparently this was reported in the LA Times. Today Google launched GoogleTalk Beta. The location to get the beta client is at www.google.com/talk/. The client is a very small download and the interface [...]