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February 2011

How To Extract Email Addresses from Outlook

    My Outlook files and folders are out of control. I need to do some heavy duty pruning but it takes so long. More emails fill the bucket than I can prune! I figured there had to be a way to pullout all the email addresses I wanted to keep rather than having to go through each email and adding to the address book one by one. So, I went to the Big G to find an answer. All kinds of software and tools popped up and I recall trying a few of these unsuccessfully before. Then I came across this… Read More »How To Extract Email Addresses from Outlook

    Fix Toshiba L640 – Restore to Factory Settings

      Does anyone else think it’s silly that computer manufacturers have stripped down what they provide you when you buy these days. What’s really weird is that the User Guide is usually provided in soft copy on your machine. That means you need to start your machine to learn how to start your machine!

      In any case if you need to restore your machine back to factory default settings, the best solution is usually contained within the User Guide supplied with your laptop. Hot Tip – print it out!!

      Repair

      For the Toshiba Satellite L640 series, here’s how to REPAIR your system if you need to:

      1. WARNING – back up ANY data you don’t want to lose to an external drive or disc or usb device (there’s really no point in backing up to your existing drive!)

      2. turn off the laptop

      3. holdRead More »Fix Toshiba L640 – Restore to Factory Settings

      How to Install Joomla 1.6

        Joomla 1.6 has been released and being a bumbling tech-head I wanted to check it out. I’ve been a Joomla user since the Mambo days so had been familiar with it but more recently I had been swayed to WordPress for its ease and simplicity. Joomla still has some nifty features and is IMHO more powerful than WordPress so it may not meet the average person’s need. but I thought ‘maybe the 1.6 version changes the game’ because it has been a MAJOR rewrite of much of the system.

        So, if you want to know how to install and set-up Joomla 1.6, follow.

        1. download the compressed file and unzip it on your desktop/laptop (NB you can install other ways like through your webhost but I tried that twice and it timed out so I’m showing you exactly what I did – the manual option)

          2. Read More »How to Install Joomla 1.6