Right now I am still looking at the little white iMac’s.  I don’t know why, but I really like those little laptops.  I know they are not the most powerful but, c’mon, its not like I do things that would utilize a great deal of memory or processor.  I write in Notepad (actually Notepad ++) and I type blog entries.  I am not a power user by any means.  Plus it would match my iPod.

If you want to pay money than the others that come to mind are Salesforce.com and Netsuite.com. Then of course you have MicrosoftCRM.

Just a couple that I have ran across and thought that businesses might find them useful.

• Visual Studio Express These are the free versions of Visual Studio, there are some differences from the paid version but not many.
• Notepad ++ When I started web programming, a guy told me that you are a great programmer when your programming environment is notepad. Although this is different from Notepad on your computer, I still think this is one of the best programs out there.
• PSPad Another great programming tool. Has a built in FTP client which makes it really nice.
• DevPHP I have heard that this is a good development environment, I just have not personally used it.
• Eclipse And of course the grand-daddy of all free development environments, Eclipse. This is a very configurable environment that will program in any language that you put into it. Highly recommend but might be a little confusing to newbies and way over the top if all you want to do is some web site programming.

These are just a few development environments that I have came across.

1. Login to the server that contains the active directory information.
2. Start=>Settings=>Control Panel=>Administrative Tools=> Active Directory Users and Computers
3. Expand your server list
4. Click the folder labeled “users”
5. Right-Click on the user name and choose reset password from the list
6. Type new password, verify new password then click ok.
7. Done!

Thats it

If you find your homepage keeps changing on its own, you will need to use an anti-spyware program.

Alternatively, go to your Start menu and in your programs list, find the entry for the particular program and click on the link to Uninstall the program.

File won’t open

Sometimes when you double-click a file, nothing happens or the program that is usually used to open that type of file can’t run it. Instead, right-click the file and use Open With.. to choose a different program to try to open it with.

Just wanted to give everyone an update. I just got me a new website doggiecare.info . I figured that I can put up articles about dog care, maybe some photos of peoples dogs.

I am wanting to try a couple of different techniques using Yahoo’s development environment. Mainly the User Interface and the Yahoo answers. On the same stroke I have also been debating as to whether to use a CMS (Content Management System) to get the whole site structure up and have the login system and such. I just don’t see any use for most of the components that a CMS would give me.

Once again the site is doggiecare.info, go there and find out some information on the care of your favorite friend.

1. Make sure that the programs that you have will work with Vista. This is crucial because alot of programs that are older will not work on the operating system, which means that you will have to upgrade it.
2. Make sure that you purchase the proper version for the proper environment. I mention this because a lot of business owners ask me if they can use the Home version at the office. While you can probably “rig” it to work at the office, it will save a lot of time and heartache just getting the business version.
3. I am following my old school techniques of not implementing a company wide roll out until the first service pack is released.  This also gives me time to upgrade all the other programs that we are running to be ready for it.
4. As far as choosing, if you want a Microsoft product, you will probably be going with Vista, whether you want to or not.

These are just a couple of things that you might want to consider when upgrading your computers in an office environment.

I am in the business of vacuum packaging machines and basically machines that are used to pack food and other items. I guess the easiest way for me to explain to people is that when you buy bologna in the supermarket, we make the machine that creates the plastic package in which the bologna is in. Its kind of a nitche market. The website is www.vc999.com . Please note that I didn’t create the current website, but am currently working on the new one. Another one of our packaging machine websites is www.xtravac.biz.

Now the second one I did do when I was early on in the web development area. One of the reasons that I am putting the link in this page is because for business reasons I cannot put it on our highly popular site of VC999. Don’t ask why not, because I really am not sure. Actually, my page here is alot more popular than the Xtravac’s is currently, so if you are feeling kind and generous, please out a link on your site to Xtravac so that it will at least get noticed. Thank you
Now Xtravac.biz is interesting because we get these machines from Taiwan and apparently they have really good pumps in them and cost a whole lot cheaper. Of course other than the pump, I have heard that they don’t hold up as well as our premium brands, but hey, price is significantly cheaper.