July 1, 2009
Needing a quick and simple design to promote their recycling business, All Ways Recycle contacted Mountain Vista Technologies. All Ways Recycle needed not only a clean design but something that wouldn’t break the bank. So we chose a simple template and customized the copy, navigation and colors to their needs. The end result was workable site that can grow as the business grows.
If you would like more information on how we can provide you with an affordable/tasteful design, contact MVT and we’ll do our best to suite your needs.
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June 27, 2009
Problem: After installing the most recent update to iPhoto, I have not been able to publish photos or albums to Facebook. Symptoms included not being able to input my username or once I tried to login to Facebook, it would just site there.
Solution: Found on the Mac forum that I needed to delete the com.apple.iPhoto.plist file. Within Finder go to / Home folder / Library / Preferences / . I made a backup of the file just in case but once I deleted the file and opened iPhoto, I was able to re-create my Facebook profiles and upload pictures.
Update: Apple has released an update to Safari that addresses this issue as well.
Links:
Mac Forum where I found the answer:
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-applications-games/154983-iphoto-not-connecting-facebook.html
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June 17, 2009
8:30 AM – Waiting: Woke up early thinking that the update would be available but nothing yet. You would think that it would been available at midnight, last night, to give the maximum amount of time to download this update. Hopefully to avoid the 2.0 update issues we had last time.
8:40 AM: Saw on Twitter that the download will be available at 1:00PM Eastern or 11:00 AM (my time). Waiting….
9:10 AM: Looks like the 1:00 PM EST roll out estimation is pretty credible. 1 hour and 45 minutes to go. Tons of “Why won’t my iPhone update to the 3.0 software” tweets on Twitter.
9:30 AM: “This version of the iPhone software (2.2.1) is the current version” - That message is just sitting there mocking me.
10:25 AM: Recent Twitter posts telling me that it has been released. I still can’t download. Anyone having luck? (looks like those tweets were a hoax)
11:00 AM: Still now download available. It’s now 11:01 and nothing.
11:05 AM: getting random “It’s Online” tweets but not luck here.
11:10 AM: Looks like more and more people are able to download. Apple must be rolling out the download in phases. Too bad I’m not in the first phase. Hopefully this will keep the servers from crashing.
11:15 AM: Success at last! Downloading the 3.0 software as I write this. More to come.
11:20 AM: Download is slow. I guess this is to be expected.
11:48 AM: Download and install all done. Now to see what this sucker can do.
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June 15, 2009
Problem: Trying to do a remote installation of the VERITAS Backup Exec
remote agent onto a Windows Server 2008 box but keep getting the error: “Attempting to connect to server \\servername failed with the following error: Access is denied.” Tried turning off the firewall on the server but still not luck.
Solution: Found the following article on VERITAS’s site which basically tells me to manually install the remote agent on the server. Manually installed and all was working well.
Links:
Remote Agent manual installation
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June 4, 2009
If you have read this blog before, you probably know that I now am a MacBook Pro user who ran Vista via Boot Camp. Do to my need to use Podcast producer, I decided to move to Leopard. Below is a list a must have apps, when switching from Windows.
- Remote Desktop for MAC – I still support many Windows machines and servers and need quick remote access to them.
- Office 2008 – So I can access documents sent to me and for Entourage, which I enjoy using much more than outlook. Entourage is very easy to access your exchange server easily.
- Parallels – Tried VMWare but this is much faster and I was able to join my install of Vista to the domain.
- Taco HTML Editor – Needed a replacement for Frontpage. Something just to write code. I like the interface; simple and easy.
- Ecto – Blog editor that isn’t as good as Live Writer but a pretty decent substitute. Still have Live writer installed via parallels; just in case.
- Firefox – Great browser, don’t need to say much more.
- X-Marks – Was able to sync my bookmarks/passwords instantly. Saved a ton of time because I didn’t have to waste it setting all that stuff up again.
- Tweetie – Great Twitter client
- Yummy FTP – Needed something to replace my windows copy of Cute FTP and Yummy was what I needed.
- Camino – Chrome isn’t available for the Mac and Camino is a nice alternative.
- Show Desktop – Loved the show desktop shortcut in Windows and missed it quite a bit. This program fills that void.
What would you suggest for a recent convert?
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