Use Gmail to find who sends you spam.

"When you give your email address to a website, you hope that they don't sell or trade your address to a bunch of spammers. Well if they do, here is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for what particular piece of email. This requires you have a Gmail account.

If your Gmail login name was username@gmail.com and you went to samplesite.com to fill out a registration form, instead of just entering username@gmail.com as your email, enter it asusername+samplesitecom@gmail.com instead. When Gmail sees a "+" in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to username@gmail.com.

Now whats cool is if you search Gmail for username+samplesitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address.

To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the Show Details link and you will see the complete address"

copied from diTii.com 

Change your RDP Port

This tip works for Windows XP.

Why would you want to change the listening port for Remote Desktop (RDP)? I only have one IP address through my ISP but multiple computers that I want to have direct access to. (as opposed to multiple remote hops) Since I have only one IP but nearly limitless ports, I can take advantage of this feature.

Instead of using the default port 3389, I can manually change it to another port such as 3390 or 3391, as many as my router will allow. Microsoft explains the process in two knowledge base articles.

To change the listening port on the RDP server (the computer being accessed) follow these instructions: KB306759

On the client side simply append a colon and the port number to the computer name. ex: 10.10.10.1:3390 KB304304

Address letters in a snap with Word's Insert Address toolbar button

A worthy tip for Microsoft Office users.

Joshua

When writing letters in Word, stop interrupting yourself to look up and insert addresses from your Outlook address book. Mary Ann Richardson describes how you can add a button to your Word toolbar that will allow you to easily reference your addresses. View the whole story

Virtual Headphones Offer Private Audio

This is a clever way to conduct business. It reminds me of the "Cone of Silence" from Get Smart in how it isolates sound. But now you don't have to be in the same room anymore.

 

 

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Virtual Headphones Offer Private Audio

via Microsoft Research News and Headlines on Jun 01, 2007

A new multiple speaker system from Microsoft Research recreates the headphone experience without the cord -- or the headphones.

 

 

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Setup VPN on Windows Server

Here's a pretty good website on configuration settings to set up a VPN on a Windows server.
http://www.chicagotech.net/vpnsetup.htm

svchost.exe 0x745f2780 Computer Freezes

I've seen this error twice now, so I thought I'd write about it.

3-5 minutes after logging onto a Windows XP computer with SP2 (it may appear on other versions) a message comes up stating that a Generic Host Service has failed and needs to close. Upon closing the window the computer is virtually unresponsive. This is a very generic message, to get a more specific message that helped, I had to reboot the computer and sit at the login screen for 3-5 minutes before the error containing the hexadecimal information 0x745f2780 and 0x00000000 appeared. To fix this problem simply:

1. Reboot the computer
2. During POST (the initial part of bootup) press F8 until the Windows Options Menu shows up
3. Select "Safe Mode" and press Enter
4. Log in with a local account
5. In the Start Menu open Control Panel
6. Open Security Center
7. Click Automatic Updates
8. Select Turn off Automatic Updates
9. Click OK
10. Reboot computer normally
11. Once logged in, open Internet Explorer
12. Click Tools > Windows Update
13. Perform Updates
14. Reboot computer again normally
15. Follow Steps 5-7 again
16. Select Automatic
17. Click OK and you're done!

Microsoft hasn't created a KnowledgeBase article about this issue. The closest I could find was kb818018

Change default Save As location in Microsoft Office

How to configure Microsoft Word or Excel to save to your U: drive (or other location) by default:
1. Open Word and choose the Tools menu at the top.
2. Choose Options… from the drop-down list.

3. Click on the File Locations tab.
4. Highlight the Documents file type and click Modify.
5. Navigate to your U: drive and click OK.
6. Click OK to close out of the Options dialog box.

You will need to do this again within Excel and any other Office product you use.