Yes – it’s Friday and here’s an interesting spoof video that Microsoft have done that seriously does show what Gmail do with your mail… quite scary for most that don’t realise what is going on. … [Read more...]
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...]
How can I stop Windows 7 creating a hiberfil.sys on my C: drive?
I was running low on disk space on my desktop today and was searching for things I could move or delete just to get me out of a trouble for the rest of the day. I found that Windows automatically created this as part of my power settings even though I don’t use Hibernate. Some further digging found this Microsoft KB article that showed me how to disable it. I ran … [Read more...]
Why was Office 365, Hotmail and SkyDrive down yesterday?
Yesterday, Microsoft suffered a global outage of not only Office 365, but also other services such as Hotmail and SkyDrive. This outage went on for around 3 hours during which users with their applications and data stored in the cloud could not access it at all. During the outage, Microsoft continued to relay information via their Office365 twitter account and … [Read more...]
Steve Jobs resigns as Apples CEO
Wow – this just in that Steve Jobs has resigned as Apples CEO. No it’s not April 1st, it is in fact real – either that or Yahoo are playing tricks on us. I wonder just how much an impact this will really make on Apple though. Thinking back to when Bill Gates announced he was stepping down from his CEO role @ Microsoft, it was a challenging time for sure. Some … [Read more...]