Tag: Productivity

Worth your time #1: Tools, Tips, Tricks and Facts

Explanation of how tiny errors and assumptions in the past can cause major repercussions in the future, a great little support tool for identifying browser config, a nifty tool for creating virtual desktops in Windows and a site to help you search for hoaxes. (Apr 21, 2011)

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Email Overload: The vacation return - dream or nightmare? Part 6

The email mountain to climb after a vacation return has always been a source of dread for tanned and rested vacationers, often removing the benefit of the vacation within a few hours of email frustration. Or worse, the dread forces you to check your email during vacation. Does it really have to be like that? (Apr 07, 2011)

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Virtual Desktop Organizer: Get rid of your Windows Desktop clutter

If you’re a busy administrator, you no doubt spend your days having to multi-task. So if you’re like me, you keep a lot of windows and applications open all the time, causing a cluttered, overwhelming desktop. To solve this problem, I began using a Windows SysInternals tool from Microsoft called Desktops. (Mar 25, 2011)

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You might be an IT Nazi if…

When it comes to email content and filter settings, let’s suppose you have to keep a tight lid over what users can and cannot access. Or maybe you’re just too keenly aware of how people can get themselves into trouble and all the man-hours required to clean up the resulting mess. You might be an IT Nazi if... (Sep 22, 2010)

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