Ramblings o' Techie

Thoughts, tips, tricks, and fixes for the IT person in you. I am an MCSE and support a wide variety of IT-related items at my job, including: Windows OS's, Exchange, Terminal Services, .NET, IIS, OS X, Microsoft Office, printers, phones, Linux, Adobe Creative Suites, and plenty of other hardware and software. Hopefully some of the solutions I find throughout the workday are useful to you as well

Monday, April 27, 2009

Select visible cells only in Excel 2007

There are two ways to do this. If you don't need to use it much, then you can get to it directly through the links on the menu. On the H...

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Free Mac OS X anti virus software

Odds are most Mac users will never need antivirus software. Out of the 35-40 Mac users I manage, I don't have any AV software installed ...

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Product key problem when installing Office 2004 on OS X

I have 3 legitimate product keys for Office 2004 for Mac, but none of the original install media. However, I have plenty of Office 2004 inst...

Monday, April 20, 2009

DIY - How to replace a Macbook Pro screen/display

I had a user drop her 15" Macbook Pro last week, which pretty much shattered the screen. The laptop is still under Applecare, but thing...

Friday, April 17, 2009

Sharp MX3501N stuck offline during maintenance warning

We have two Sharp MX3501N printers and they've been great for us. One of them had a "Needs maintenance, code FK3" pop up yeste...

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Outlook attachment error, can't create file

If you're one of those users who is notorious for opening all attachments without downloading and saving them first, you may have run in...

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Applescript to automatically replace characters in filename

Here's the second half to my post regarding automatically adding file extensions to files in OS X . If you're in a mixed environment...

Add empty item to databound drop down list in C# .NET

Do you have a data-bound drop down list, but want to leave the list empty or blank initially? Well, you can, and it's really simple. In ...

Monday, April 13, 2009

Embed or un-embed a linked file in an Illustrator CS3 document

The trick here is paying attention to the options in the Link screen. The symbol for showing that a file is embedded is , which will show u...

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Send email via command line with sendmail

So you want to make sure sendmail is running and able to send email messages, but can't quite figure out the command to test it from the...

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