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Easy Test Drive of Win 8 / Server 2012

  By Chris | October 16, 2012 - 9:31 pm | Tech
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I attended a small event last week at the local Microsoft office. It was called an “installfest” and was led by IT Pro Evangelist Harold Wong (what an awesome title he has!). This was an informal event geared towards helping folks quickly get up and running with evaluation versions of … Continue reading →

Tagged dual-boot, tutorial, VHD, windows-2012, Windows-7, windows-8

Need More Power

  By Chris | February 20, 2012 - 8:16 pm | Tech
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This weekend we had a bit of a family emergency and found ourselves driving  90 minutes north to find a hospital as quickly as possible. While en route we were using our smart phones for typical smart phone stuff: texting, calling, researching on the web and GPS. The phones did … Continue reading →

Tagged Android, battery

Hyper-V VM Backups

  By Chris | February 19, 2012 - 10:00 pm | Tech
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I was looking around for a quicker and easier way to do automated backups for running Hyper-V guests as part of a recent work project. As you might guess, there are tons of options – mostly it comes down to how much you want to spend. I had been told … Continue reading →

Tagged backup, BackupChain, hyper-v, Tech-Ops, virtualization

OneNote for Android!

  By Chris | February 7, 2012 - 9:56 pm | Tech
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Here’s my favorite headline of the day: “OneNote Mobile for Android is now available worldwide” Heck yeah! Or should I say, “About time?” Regardless, I’m pretty excited. This is something I’d been waiting on for a long time. We migrated to Office 365 at work last fall and shortly after … Continue reading →

Tagged Android, GTD, onenote, SkyDrive

A Quick Look at the Kindle Fire

  By Chris | November 25, 2011 - 6:22 pm | Tech
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No, I haven’t bought a Kindle Fire yet. Good grief folks, you know I never rush out and buy first gen things! However, my friend Rich (blog | twitter | G+) recently bought one and offered to let me play with it for a week or so while he’s busy … Continue reading →

Tagged amazon, Android, eBook, Fire, kindle
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