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Xbox Live Gold Membership for £25

padd — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:17:01 +0000

I got an Xbox for Christmas and have pretty much spent the past month playing Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox Live using the free 1 month membership. Unfortunately this has now run out and looking at how much Microsoft charge for a year’s membership, I was taken aback £39.99 a year, especially as Sony do not [...]

Can’t sleep…

padd — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:53:08 +0000

I can’t sleep. I have been up since 3am so I figured as it has been a while since I made a post, a quick update was in order. The past few months have been quite busy for me, I have been focusing a lot on my career and building up my certifications, work has had [...]

A break from the summer blockbusters

padd — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:33:46 +0000

Transformers 2 left me feeling amazing and Star Trek did not disappoint one bit. However the build up to these films always leaves me a little bit sad, in Terminator Salvation for example, we were treated with a smashing trailer promising robots, explosions, gripping dialogue and a wicked soundtrack except what we got was a [...]

Exchange Activesync not working on WM6

padd — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:49 +0000

I just had a problem where one of our user’s HTC tytn ii phones was refusing to sync with exchange over the mobile network. I conducted the usual action of veryfying the password but could not find the problem. So I googled for the error code 85010014 which came up with loads of articles about [...]

Some Windows VPN connections through ISA 2006 failing

padd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:57:25 +0000

Having successfully set up our company’s ISA 2006 Server, tested it from home and on a few mobile networks, I confidently distubuted the instructions to the staff of how to set up and gain acces to the VPN. A few days later, I was sitting back and admiring my success, when i recieved a phone call [...]

Setting up WSS3 email support and recieving SMTP error: missing adsiisex.dll

padd — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:21:21 +0000

The time has come to set up our Windows Sharepoint Services installation to receive emails. One of the first things that you need to do is install the SMTP service on the sharepooint server using add/remove windows components. So you go through the motions: Click Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs. Click the Add/Remove Windows Components button. Select [...]

Sky to roll out content on Xbox 360

padd — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:00:16 +0000

According to the BBC Sky have struck a deal with Microsoft to deliver sky content direct to your Xbox without the need for a sky dish. Set to be released in the autumn, Xbox Live customers should be able to receive live sport, programmes, catch-up TV and on demand films through their broadband connection. One of the [...]

Increasing your site exposure through Wordpress Ping Lists

padd — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:11:30 +0000

There is no use writing great content if no one knows that it is published. One way of increasing your wordpress site’s exposure is to edit the ping list. When you publish a post in wordpress, it has the ability to send out a notification to multiple websites designed to track and aggregate posts.The sites that [...]

Edit Sharepoint sites for free!

padd — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:21:51 +0000

A bit late but still worth a post, Microsoft has announced (in April 2009) that Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 is now free! Go over to SharePoint Designer 2007 Download to get your free copy. For those who don’t know much about SharePoint Designer, here is an excerpt from Microsoft: Build solutions faster to enhance team productivity and efficiency Use [...]

Hard times and tightening budgets…

padd — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:01:54 +0000

Money is tight, redundancies are possible and projects postponed. Whilst budget cuts by some degree are inevitable, careful planning for the downturn will impact your business in a positive way. Being forced to ‘do more with less’, forces you to look at problems in new ways and take an approach that you may not have looked [...]