Windows Steady State?

Has anyone tried using Steady State with their Vista machines?  I have a pool of circulating laptops that I am investigating restore options on.

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Blog notifications??

Just a thought… would it be useful/possible to script the blog to send notifications to users when new items are created or perhaps comments made to subjects in the blog?  I’m sure others are as busy as I am and therefore forget this venue of knowledge exists.  It would help to have some sort of notification that the blog has been edited.  As the “Pings” feature exists for the current posting only, someother form of notice might be welcome.

Windows Screen Capture Utility

Did you guys know Windows Vista has a built-in screen capture utility? Why didn’t anyone tell me?

Snipping Tool

The IT Training Tips Blog

In case anyone missed the email…

http://ittrainingtips.iu.edu/

Locking out websites in Firefox

Unlike IE, parental controls do not come standard with Firefox 3. There are several extensions which do the same work, though. Recently I was asked to lock out all but a few web domains on some student workstations, and I used ProCon Latte. It was easy to use and did not require an admin to set up, like IE’s content control.

Batch Text Processing Tools Reviewed

From Smashing Magazine:

Have you ever fainted from the sheer idea of having to find and replace text in millions of files? Have you ever felt helpless because you needed to search and replace different data 50 times at once? Have you ever lost original files while doing normal text processing tasks? If you’ve found yourself in any of these situations, then it is time to feel a bit tougher, at least mentally.”

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Anti-Carpal Tunnel Exercises

In keeping with my habit of stealing posts from Lifehacker.com, here is a nice video of anti-CT exercises from World percussionist David Kuckhermann.

http://lifehacker.com/5195481/exercises-that-protect-against-carpal-tunnel-syndrome

Conficker: The round-up

The latest news on the conficker worm