Merged my personal mobile phone with my work mobile using Google Voice!

When I started this job a few years ago, the department admin handed me a phone which would be my work mobile, and it had already been activated. So I now had two cell phones to carry around. Most of the time, I felt as if I really had to carry both of them, because [...]

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Can Your iPad Replace Your Laptop?

The iPad and other tablets have been touted as the next wave of computing technology, and their many uses are being extolled to replace or enhance functionality previously offered by a laptop. Just like with the iPod Touch, the iPad has “an app for that” and allows you to make calls, take photos, check e-mail, [...]

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How to find the Report Data tab in SSRS after closing it

Today I was rocking along in SSRS 2008R2 and then absent mindedly closed the Report Data tab by clicking the x at the top corner!  When I go to the View menu, I do NOT have the choice of Report Data. Never fear. I’ve found a few ways to get it back.  One way is [...]

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Join me on Google Plus!

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I love Google+! Well, I really can’t think of anything Google’s done that I don’t absolutely love, and it’s getting better all the time. You can finally separate all kinds of people into separate circles and follow them or mutually follow and talk to them, and it’s really great to be able to talk to [...]

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One or more parameters required to run the report has not been specified

I wrote a report in SSRS 2008 R2 last week and published it to a reports library on SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint-integrated Reporting Services).  The report worked well, but then the users decided they didn’t want a couple of the parameters.   I got back into BIDS and removed the two parameters from every place they occurred, [...]

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Wii Error Code: 51330 Unable to connect to your wireless network

Q: We got Netflix lately, and I wanted to set the Wii up to stream movies and TV shows but I keep getting the error code 51330 on the Wii. According to their support site, that means there’s something wrong with the password for our WPA wireless connection, but I know for sure I’m entering [...]

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Cloud Blogging Review

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I bought Cloud Blogging within the very 24 hours after Glen Allsopp promoted it to one of his groups of subscribers, and if you’ve read any posts or ebooks by Glen before, you understand why I was “hungry” to read anything new he had to tell us. Also,he doesn’t have a lot of products out [...]

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Need SharePoint training for work? Start out with the free stuff!

If your job responsibilities include administering SharePoint at all, you’ll most likely want to find some good quality training. That’s true whether you are the administrator of the whole SharePoint farm, a site collection, or even just a site. SharePoint is one of those technologies that is not just “intuitively obvious,” and it takes a [...]

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Scientists Use Functional MRI to Read Peoples’ Minds

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Scientists are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reconstruct images seen by people and read their thoughts. This technology, which is relatively new compared to x-ray imaging techniques, uses the nuclear spin of hydrogen nuclei to construct an image. This makes the technology especially well suited to the imaging of soft tissues, and if [...]

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A New Generation of Web Browsers Will Support Native 3D Rendering

The Khronos Group has recently announced the completion of WebGL 1.0, a new web based graphics library that provides a 3D graphics API (Application Programming Interface) without the need for plug-ins. This enables the rendering of interactive 3D graphics directly within your browser. Pretty cool, but while it’s supported by Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari, [...]

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