September 2006 - Posts

• MNSPUG Reminder

  The Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG) will be meeting this week on Wednesday Sept. 13th at 8:30AM at the Bloomington, MN Microsoft office.  We will be presenting on the Content Management features of MOSS 2007 as well as some of the content management features of SharePoint Designer.  Stop by and save $1.50!  Visit the MNSPUG site for more details and presentation materials.  Resources will be available online after the presentation.  Posted Sep 11 2006, 08:17 PM by wpreston with no comments Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, Information Worker, MNSPUG

• Thesaurus in MOSS 2007

  We recently had someone ask if the thesaurus functionality in SharePoint 2003 is still available in MOSS 2007.  Bill English has a good article describing the thesaurus in SharePoint Portal Server 2003.  After a little looking around, it appears that the same functionality is still available in MOSS 2007.  The file naming convention and format remain the same, so moving the file from one system to another should be pretty straightforward.  I'm assuming that the file is migrated during an upgrade, but will test that out and post if there are any problems experienced with that process.      Posted Sep 10 2006, 10:28 PM by wpreston with no comments Filed under: 2007 Microsoft Office System, SharePoint 2003

• What happened to e-books on Amazon?

  Where did the e-books on Amazon.com go?  When did they stop offering them?  What the heck?!?!  I loved the ability to find all the books I was looking for and then having my choice of formats - no longer.  The only thing I can find in reference to any change is this page:  http://www.amazon.com/e-Docs-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=551440 It looks like they've outsourced to Mobipocket.    Some of the other larger vendors out there are: www.fictionwise.com www.ebooks.com www.ereader.com But I'd still like to know what Amazon's reasons were for bailing on the format.  :(  Posted Sep 10 2006, 10:02 PM by wpreston with no comments Filed under: SmartPhone, General

• Avatar Creator

  This has been floating around the office for the past few weeks and we've been having quite a bit of fun with it.  http://www.metacafe.com/watch/25817/avatar_creator?langID=en It's a pretty slick tool for creating an avatar for yourself for IM clients, forums, etc...  Posted Sep 10 2006, 05:34 PM by wpreston with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Fun

• Windows Mobile Phone

  Earlier this year, I picked up a T-Mobile MDA with Windows Mobile 5.0 - finally allowing me to consolidate phone and PDA hardware after using Palm OS devices since 1998 or so.  I originally wanted to write about it then, but life got away from me.  One of the only problems I had been having with the device prior to the OS upgrade is that every so often it would lose network connection and take forever to reconnect - usually making me do a soft-reboot after which everything was fine, but irritating.  Supposedly, the new OS takes care of this issue.  So, this past weekend I updated my ROM - from v1.8.10.104 to v2.26.10.2 (I think - I also see 2.26.10.105 in some places).  This effectively wiped everything out and allowed me to start over.  So, I'll catalogue a few things at this point.  I had a number of apps installed and wanted to move things around a bit, mostly getting as much as I could off of the main memory space and on to the storage card.  So far I'll be loading the essentials: eWallet - Password storage (encrypted) Voice Command - Hands-free functionality Sudoku Master - yea, yea...  Other general notes:  With the 'full' keyboard, messaging is SO much easier.  I've never been a huge text message user, but the first day of Tech Ed this year I realized how much I was going to be using this option and called T-Mobile to upgrade to a messaging plan.  They were very helpful in allowing me to upgrade and absorb all the messages I had already used (aka - gone over my limit).  more later... Posted Sep 06 2006, 12:33 AM by wpreston with no comments Filed under: SmartPhone, General, Fun