Recently my iTunes library on my C: drive was consuming too much space. I decided to move it to another drive location but in the process made a mess of it and nearly lost some of my TV shows that I have season passes for. Here’s what I did to do it the RIGHT way. Firstly make sure you have a new drive location that has a large amount of free space. My … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2011
Don’t get stuck in the IT Past
Ok – this is a cool send up video from Microsoft relating to Cloud Technology, but could easily also be of your average SMB IT reseller out there (not the SMB IT Professionals though). You know – the guy operating out of the boot of his car, offering the lowest cost for services that barely exist… yeah – those guys. Anyway – take a look and have a laugh … [Read more...]
Acrobat X Prints Garbled Text
This one is from Don Tibbits of Brainbox Solutions in Melbourne, Australia. Don is a member of the SMB IT Professionals association here in Australia (www.smbitpro.org.au) If you are using some versions of Adobe Acrobat and you print to PDF from a web page, you will often get garbled text instead of the text you see on the screen. Changing the Adobe PDF … [Read more...]
How can I tell what version of SQL I have?
I’ve had this question a few times now where I am trying to determine what version of SQL server I have installed on a computer. This website here shows you all the versions of SQL based on the build number and the SQLServer.exe. You can also use the SQL Management Studio to show the version as per below. … [Read more...]
Diagnosing blank screen in your WordPress Dashboard
Last week, this website started to give me a blank screen when ever I attempted to login to it via the WordPress dashboard. It was most concerning as aside from this the site appeared to be running fine. I did some digging to figure out why and found it to be a common problem from a few sources that WordPress would do this due to a number of reasons. I modified my … [Read more...]