http://blog.montopolis.com Building better businesses... with Technology Fri, 09 May 2008 09:56:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am a long time user of TechSmith's excellent SnagIt and Camtasia products.  The products work flawlessly.  I've long believed SnagIt should be built into the O/S. Enter Vista.  It includes the amazingly simple and easy Snipping Tool, along side the Calculator and Notepad (two other essentials), and it ... http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/05/09/you-need-this-jing-free-for-now/ Latest build of Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 is available from here.  This update fixes the following issues: 951870 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951870/) Event IDs 8239 and 8206 are logged when you schedule and then cancel a meeting in Communicator 2007 949498 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949498/) Error message when a Communicator 2007 user sends a ... http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/05/01/office-communicator-2007-v20636264-hotfix/ Here's the best part of Office 2007 - direct PDF output.  No 3rd party software or slow output.  Just easy and fast. Download the add-in from here and install it. Then pick Save As from the Office Menu and choose PDF. That's it! http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/04/29/output-pdf-directly-from-microsoft-office-2007/ I finally got around to Googling this issue I've been having with my Dell E1505 laptop, which uses a Dell 1390 WLAN Minicard. Thought I blog about it since it was buried deep in a forum somewhere. If your laptop is having issues connecting to WIFI connections, regardless of what router ... http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/04/01/dell-139014901500-wlan-minicard-connectivity-issue/ Check out this post from the Windows Vista Team Blog for more information... http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/03/19/vista-sp1-officially-released/ Cisco IOS routers have a new firewall configuration method.  Ok so its not so new (Feb 2006), but I tend to let drastic new technologies like this "cook" for a while before I'll partake.  Plus I finally got a handle on the Inspect/CBAC way of doing things!!  BTW the "old" ... http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/03/06/new-to-cisco-zone-based-policy-firewall/ Click Here to download the Beta... Really neat new features!! http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/03/05/ie8-beta-is-now-available-for-download/ Excerpt from Microsoft.com: ... By having two types of Windows CALs, you are able to use the model that makes sense for your organization. For example, purchasing a Windows User CAL might make more sense if your company has a need for employees to have roaming access using multiple ... http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/03/05/microsoft-windows-server-user-cal-versus-device-cal/ I've been baffled for the last few weeks as to why ever since I upgraded to Vista, Cisco's SDM does not properly load. Each time Cisco's SDM attempted to load, I an SHTML page would pop up 'runAPP.shtml'. The SDM would not load any further. After researching and researching, I ... http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/02/29/cisco-sdm-on-vista-not-working/ We all know viewing PDF's within Internet Explorer can be ridiculously slow and painful. This new YouTube style PDF viewer is hoping to replace the Adobe viewer for embedded PDF's on the web. http://www.scribd.com/ipaper/ http://blog.montopolis.com/index.php/2008/02/20/a-new-web-pdf-viewer-to-kill-adobe/