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Export RSS Feeds from Outlook and Import Into Google Reader

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Exporting your Feeds out of Outlook

Select the file menu from Outlook
Choose Import and Export
Choose Export RSS Feeds to an OPML file
Click Next
Choose the RSS feeds you wish to export, or hit Select All to select all the feeds.
Click Next
Click the Browse button to find the location where you want to save the OPML file, type […]

Yahoo Opens Up

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

An article talks about the opening up of Yahoo, both its embrace of open source and the company’s desire to open its platform to 3rd party developers. I have seen a lot of good things come out of Yahoo in the past couple of years, from Yahoo Site Explorer to Yahoo Pipes to Yahoo’s contributions […]

24% Percent of Users Can’t Find Google

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Over on usability guru Jakon Nielsen’s blog, he throws out a statistic that 24% of users in a recent study couldn’t navigate to google to perform a search - they either went to a different search engine or just failed. How you fail at that task is beyond me. Do you look at the […]

Data conversion Failed on MS SQL Import

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

The database was upgraded to MS SQL 9 and required me to use 2005 SQL Server Management Studio instead of Enterprise Manager. While trying to import a .csv file, I ran into a number of errors and spent awhile trying to figure out what the problem was. If you get a similar error, the problems […]

WTF - Adobe Acrobat Activiation Issues With Windows Vista

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

I have been having major problems with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 and Windows Vista. I bought Acrobat almost a year ago, paying close to $500, and have consistently had problems with the software saying it needs to be activated even though I have already activated it numerous times. I worked with their lousy customer support when […]