Hard to believe, but Microsoft Office 2013 has been with us for
over 3 years now. Yet it still seems like it was released just the other day.
While its overall rating and reception may not have been as overwhelming as it
has always been for its predecessors – 2007 and 2010, MS office 2013 does come
with a number of positives. Read More
In February every year, the world celebrates what we now know as
Safer Internet Day (SID). Organized by Insafe (a European network of Awareness
Centers), its principle objective is to promote safer and more responsible use
of online technology and mobile phones, especially among children and young
people across the world. Read More
Skype is widely used for business and personal
conversations that include video and
instant messaging. Now, let’s say that you had an important call or a
conversation which you feel might come in handy later. What would you do? Read More
It’s an error that often gave me migraines
every time I saw it crop up in my application logs. This error appears when you
are trying to connect to an oracle database and the connection receives a time
out from the database. ORA-03135 may also be as a result of your firewall
settings. Read More
Many a times when accessing a server via SSH
you may end up with “ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote
host” error message. For example: Read More
While installing Oracle database I was getting this error.
I searched various blogs and forums and found out many solutions but lastly I
got one solution which worked for me. Read More
It's one of those processes you read about once, and somehow you
imagine you got all the steps in your head. Well, that is the case until it
rears its ugly head at critical moments of some nagging implementation. Read More
If you want the session to use the default keyboard layout
stored in the user profile instead of the layout provided by the Terminal
Server client after the user logs on to the Terminal Server computer, you can
set the IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayout
registry value to 1. Read More
Cause:
This error occurs when an operating system fails to open a port
to communicate to the domain for the service permissions check. This is
generally a transitory error and is unrelated to the service... Read More
In my office, we distribute finished
reports in PDF format. For larger documents, we include a cover page and table
of contents. Unless I have the cover page marked as page 1, the numbering for
my document is off. If my readers type in the page number from the table of
contents at the top of the PDF, it will take them to the wrong page. Read More
You will most likely bump into this error when you take load an
oracle database taken from a higher version of oracle (Such as 11g) into a
database running a lower version To overcome ORA-39142 incompatible version
number 3.1 in dump.. Read More
On June 15, 2010, Microsoft
Office 2010 was officially unveiled as the successor to Microsoft Office 2007,
and has since been made available for retail and online purchase. It’s the
first version that requires product activation for volume license editions.
Office 2010 also marks the debut of free online versions of Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, and OneNote, which work in the web browsers Internet Explorer,
Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but not Opera. Read More
I recently had an argument (a discourse, really) with a friend
on which, among the most common that we have seen or used, is the best internet
browser. Any mortal that has ever used the internet will have either heard of,
or used one of Mozilla Firefox, Slim browser, Opera, Safari, Google chrome and
the more common Internet explorer which is usually the default browser that
comes installed with the operating system. Read More
Services are added from the Command Prompt. You need to know the
actual service name as opposed to what Microsoft calls the Display Name. For
example, if you wanted to create or delete the Help and Support service, the
name used at the Command Prompt would be "helpsvc" rather than the
Display Name of "Help and Support". Read More
A friend of mine sounded a bit at sea, a few months ago, when I
called him seeking for any functioning deep freeze application version that he
could assist me with. His response was–as you could have guessed by now-not in
the affirmative. Being the tech-savvy mortal that I have known him to be, I was
quite surprised that he hadn’t the foggiest idea on what this 5-8MB (Depending
on the version you come across) alien was all about. Read More
Got that annoying WGA notification
message on the bottom right hand corner of your PC? Worry no more. We got it
busted here. The basic steps:
1) Start Windows In Safe Mode Read More
You’ll most likely find this habit common amongst IT geeks, but
never really your ordinary PC user-the kind of folks who won’t strain their
heads trying to fix an operating system gone awry. Hibernation is a feature of
some operating systems where the contents of RAM are written to non-volatile
storage such as a hard disk, as a file or on a separate partition, before
powering off the computer. It is a state in which the contents of the RAM are
dumped into a file at the root of the Windows drive. Read More
It’s one of the most annoying things one could encounter with
memory sticks (or flash disks, depending on what one would prefer to call
them). You’ve finally finished that nagging assignment that had given you
sleepless nights for hours on end, and managed to save on it on that memory
stick you so much trust. The last thing on your mind would be getting to meet
your boss and the flash just won’t open your treasured document… In most cases,
the document gets corrupted and can’t open; usually giving you a message that
reads like the document could not be opened. Read More
Have you ever wished to run a particular program but got
constrained by the version of Operating System (OS) on your machine? Well, my
guess is that you could have been running either of Windows 7 or Vista.
While these two are the latest Operating Systems Microsoft has to offer, Read More
On November 21St 2011, the East African franchise of
Nokia officially launched the latest in a series of its smartphones, the Nokia
E6, onto the Ugandan Market. I was privileged to attend the colorful event at
the Serena Hotel, having gotten my corporate invite a couple of days earlier.
Only a few journalists had been invited, plus us (well, I doubled as both,
really) the corporate fraternity. In all, we were about sixty (60) in a medium
sized hall that hosted us for the do. Okay, enough of the adulation and more of
what actually took me there, the specifics… Read More
So your computer has been running the same antivirus for the
last couple of years, and you now feel like you have to change it? Well, you
don’t to change just for the sake of changing. Just because you saw a different
antivirus application on your office neighbors’ PC doesn’t mean you join the
bandwagon. Read More…
Following Microsoft’s latest innovation in a series of operating
systems-Windows 7, comparisons have been drawn with earlier versions such as
Windows 95, 98, 2000, Windows XP and Vista. Read More…
You could have across such a message that read like “Your system is low on virtual memory.
Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this
process, memory requests for some applications may be denied …………” every
once in a while as you typed away at your keyboard, or keypad for that matter. Read More…
This article is a step-by-step instruction for those who want to
install Oracle 10g database on their computer. This document provides
guidelines to install Oracle 10g database on Microsoft Windows environment. If
you use other operating system other than Microsoft Windows, the process is not
too much different from that of Microsoft Windows, since Oracle uses Oracle
Universal Installer to install its software. Read More…
With new technology emerging every day, there is always a need
for one to keep updated. But while most of us tend to embrace every new
innovation, some folks have decided to remain old school. It, largely, is the
reason you’ll find people striving so hard to downgrade newly acquired machines
from the all new windows 7 to XP. Others could do so because of application
incompatibility (for some applications developed before the advent of windows
Vista & 7 and have not been updated since), but majority fall in the
former category. Read More
A casual stroll on a dull afternoon once led me into one of the
numerous computer shops on Kampala road, from where I was struck by the site of
teeny-looking notebooks stacked in one of the shelves. A few months later, a
buddy gave me a call seeking recommendation for a mini-laptop that he could
procure. That’s when it hit me. Mini-laptops had arrived, and were probably here
to stay. Read More
