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Adam Field

Recent Posts

• Looks like i lied....

  Posted: 31 Mar 2008 at 19:16 by adam

  When I said I wouldn't post here anymore.The truth is that my men-talhealth website is still a good idea but I don't have enough material to post there consistently. Also, I like writing tech stuff - I now just have a different agenda to before.That in mind, I'm going to launch a new blog where I ca

• Looks like i lied....

  Posted: 31 Mar 2008 at 18:16

  When I said I wouldn't post here anymore.The truth is that my men-talhealth website is still a good idea but I don't have enough material to post there consistently. Also, I like writing tech stuff - I now just have a different agenda to before.That in mind, I'm going to launch a new blog where I ca

• My Final Geekdojo Post

  Posted: 10 Jul 2007 at 18:11 by adam

  As some of you may already know, I am no longer working at Content Master. Lot's of things have happened to me in my personal life in the last year or two that have caused me to re-evaluate my life direction. In light of this, I've made the decision to return to education and pursue a degree in Psyc

• My Final Geekdojo Post

  Posted: 10 Jul 2007 at 18:11 by adam

  As some of you may already know, I am no longer working at Content Master. Lot's of things have happened to me in my personal life in the last year or two that have caused me to re-evaluate my life direction. In light of this, I've made the decision to return to education and pursue a degree in Psyc

• Palm Foleo - WTF?

  Posted: 31 May 2007 at 16:34 by adam

  The Palm Foleo showed up last night at the All Things Digital Conference. People have long slated Windows Mobile devices for feature overkill - why have all the rich desktop windows style functionality when you just need mobile e-mail access. Apparently the solution is to carry a laptop sized device

• On Macs and poor versions of Office

  Posted: 21 May 2007 at 18:02 by adam

  I got a MacBook for my birthday and it's fantastic except for Office 2004. After using Office 2007 on Vista for 6 months i'm quite possibly slightly spoiled but compared to the PC version of office, it sucks! Obviously being Office 2004, it has no idea what a docx file is. Lucky for me, Microsoft re

• Blackberry Value Proposition?

  Posted: 18 May 2007 at 16:28 by adam

  I know i've laboured this point several times before but I just don't get it. I was just browsing the web when a pop-up ad appeared for BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express which is a free version of the middleware component used by BlackBerry devices to communicate with your mail server. At first g

• MOM is Dead - long live SCOM!

  Posted: 29 Mar 2007 at 16:56 by adam

  I'm currently working on some Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 training, which was launched at MMS this week. It's a fabulous product with several improvements over MOM 2005. If you're interested, there is a raft of webcasts available (and there will probably be more after MMS). I'm on holiday

• Shameless Freepay Plug

  Posted: 02 Mar 2007 at 17:19 by adam

  <shamelessplug> If you click here, complete an offer and then get 10 of your friends to do the same, you can get a free Wii, Xbox 360 (with HDD), PSP or NDS. Oh, and my kids will love you and you wouldn't want to upset my children would you? ;) </shamelessplug>

• Free Router Anyone?

  Posted: 07 Feb 2007 at 18:27 by adam

  Fon, are giving away 10000 routers to celebrate their first birthday so be quick. Whats the catch? Nothing really, so long as you don't mind sharing your Wi-Fi. The offer is good for the US, UK and Canada.

• UKESP is no more :(

  Posted: 07 Feb 2007 at 17:26 by adam

  Just a brief post to say that i've decided to call it a day on UKESP. It started with the greatest of intentions but I just didn't have the available time or resources to make it a success. The good news for Exchange users is that there is another group you can go to The Microsoft Messaging & Mo

• Sussex Geek Dinners

  Posted: 06 Feb 2007 at 18:52 by adam

  A while back, I mooted doing something about a local geek dinner after I enjoyed the one I went to in Seattle. Things being things, I never got a chance to do anything about it. Lucky for me that Simon Harryiot already did it. The next one is on 28th February in Brighton.

• Rights Management Add-on in IE7 (on Vista)

  Posted: 25 Jan 2007 at 21:25 by adam

  Someone at work just sent me a restricted permission attachment. I'm logged in via OWA so I installed the rights-management add-on for IE This didn't work so I did a bit of googling and found the release notes for IE7. Lo and behold - the first line says: You must install the Rights Management Add-o

• Troubleshooting iTunes Installation on Windows Vista

  Posted: 17 Jan 2007 at 22:08 by adam

  So... I have Vista Ultimate RTM installed on both my home and work laptops and decided that I want to install iTunes. iTunes has been my media player of choice for some time now. I remembered trying to install it on RC1 and RC2 and it failing to install Quicktime.A check on the Apple forums found so

• Exchange 2003 OWA Issues with Vista IE7 (and possibly XP SP2 IE7)

  Posted: 16 Jan 2007 at 20:59 by adam

  I just wiped my work laptop and reinstalled it with a shiny new Vista Ultimate OS. When I'm working out of the office, I prefer to use OWA to full-blown Outlook. I fired up OWA, read a couple of messages (all good so far), hit reply and the message body has an X (as if there is a missing image). The

• Coping with distractions when writing

  Posted: 05 Jan 2007 at 22:06 by adam

  I've just realised that in all the time that i've had this blog, while I may have blogged a lot about the technology side of my work, I don't think i've ever blogged about writing. The key differentiator between Content Master and other technical content creation companies is that our writers and su

• I'm back

  Posted: 05 Jan 2007 at 21:54 by adam

  Hi I'm back and working (and blogging) again. Thanks for all the messages of support while I was away - they were much appreciated. We now return to our regular schedule

• Not around at the moment

  Posted: 17 Nov 2006 at 19:49 by adam

  Apologies for the lack of posts at the moment but i'm off ill from work ATM. As soon as i'm back, normal blogging service will be resumed - at the moment, i'm not sure when that is.

• How to re-create the show desktop shortcut

  Posted: 17 Nov 2006 at 19:45 by adam

  I haven't come across it often but Andy just aksed me how to re-create the show desktop shortcut in the quick launch toolbar. For anyone that's been searching for this, the answer is here

• Anatomy of a Spam E-mail

  Posted: 12 Oct 2006 at 03:36 by adam

  I was just browsing the BBC website when I found this article that is well worth a look, whether you're a seasoned messaging pro or just someone looking for more info on unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE).