IF your current outgoing SMTP server is a corneredge.com name (for example email.corneredge.com, mail.corneredge.com, or smtp.corneredge.com) you will need to update that to read mail3.corneredge.com.  If you are using another mail server to relay your sent mail like your ISP’s mail server (for example mail.optonline.net or outgoing.verizon.net), then you do NOT need to udpate that setting.

Here is a picture of what your email settings screen may look like (This is Microsoft Outlook 2010, Other clients will be similar):

Blackberry has always had some catching up to do with the iPhones and Droid’s of this world when it comes to the “fun” side of mobility… well, looks like they are getting there.

Check out these videos for the next blackberry operating system, version 6.0:

• New user interface
• Better social media integration
• App world re-vamp

Corner Edge Design redesign of cr-law.net

The result was an updated “CR” logo with a 3D platinum look and clean new website design that is easily navigated. The home page features a Flash animation of the CR logo and animated text. iPad/iPhone and mobile visitors are redirected to an alternate home page. Even though the site has a few “under construction” pages on it we are very proud to launch this new web presence for Carmagnola & Ritardi LLC., and to address those “under construction” pages the Corner Edge development team is planning to implement their web based on site content editing system so  Carmagnola & Ritardi will have complete control over their site content.

Corner Edge and Pace have teamed up again to produce wellbutrinxl.com. Pace has conceptualized the website that is intended to offer information about the WelbutrinXL product line to patients, physicians and healthcare professionals in the United States. The talented creative group at Pace designed and developed content for the site and provided Corner Edge with artwork, documents and content text. Corner Edge’s development team produced animated Flash features for the home page as well as .NET development for the entire site. Pace is a full-service professional advertising agency located in Parsippany New Jersey. Pace and Corner Edge have collaborated on countless initiatives like web based document management tools, CD/DVD presentations, web  sites, banner advertisements and report engines.

I recommend it to power users, it a worthwhile upgrade in time savings alone when compared with outlook 2007.

The search and usability features have almost negated the need for my favorite too, xobni as well… more on that later.

-Russ

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So, prepare some extra time to un-install your older 32 bit applications before upgrading to 2010.  Its cleaner to use virtualization to maintain multiple client installs for development purposes anyway.

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McAfee corporate customers using Windows XP experienced massive problems today as an update to McAfee’s security suite deleted svhost.exe—a very common Windows process—causing XP machines to reboot continuously.

McAfee has confirmed the problem and removed the faulty virus definition file from the update. Only McAfee’s corporate users were affected.

to fix it try this tip:

boot to safe mode, rename mcshield.exe, reboot, run Virus Console, pick Tools -> Rollback DAT, name back to mcshield, reboot

Source: Lifehacker

Windows Maintenance Tips: The Good, Bad, and Useless

You might be surprised which ones help performance vs. hurt performance.

If you need to get organized with your to-do list, check out remember the milk

Also check out these advanced tips

Corner Edge Solutions remains on the cutting edge of technology and application development with the beta release of it’s already successful iWeb Presentations platform. The growing popularity of the iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices as well as the anticipated business market success of Apples iPad has inspired us to make our products available to a wider audience. While still available in it’s original form as a Adobe Flash based web application with a .NET backend to manage users and track data the new mobile version has been completely redeveloped from the ground up to accommodate the iPad. Corner Edge developers have embraced the Apple development environment and is excited to offer this and many more products and service applications for these ground breaking devices. Corner Edge Solutions is committed to providing the very best service on any platform. Contact Corner Edge today for a iWeb Presentations for iPad demonstration.

Don’t fret, when it sleeps attached to a “not charging” USB port, it will still charge, just slower.   Click here for details

It is no surprise when you install VMware, it installs some other information on the drives for the OS, but I was surprised to see files on the local hard drives when I was installing VMware on the embedded SDcard we typically specify with our servers.  Despite installing the actual OS on a separate flash drive, the install actually wrote some data to one of the drives on the server.

Compare DataStore1 which has VMware ESXi installed on it to DataStore 2 which has nothing but VM’s on it.  You can see there are a lot more partitions, which is why the DataStore won’t delete.  If VMware was installed on an embedded flash drive you would see less partitions on DataStore1, but still a lot more than on DataStore2.

The easiest way to avoid this is if you are installing to an embedded SD card is to not attach your hard drives or configure your virtual disks if you are using a RAID card until after the ESXi installation.  If the drives aren’t there, then the installation can’t write files to them.

If, however you have already installed VMware ESXi to the flash drive and don’t want to reinstall it again with the drives disconnected, the easiest way it from inside the RAID card utility at startup, just re-initialize the offending drive, which will delete all data that has been written to it and then you will be able to create the DataStore with the larger block size.

If you do not have the option of installing to an embedded flash drive, then my recommendation would be to create a 1GB virtual disk in your RAID card first, install VMware there, and then create the remaining disks in the RAID utility after.  Then, when you are creating the DataStore in VMware, you can specify the block size then.

I hope this helps take away some of the confusion on why you cant delete a DataStore on a clean install with no VM’s even created.

For more information about this, along with other advantages of using them for your DNS server, you can read from their Introduction to Google Public DNS page.

Disclaimer: ONLY issue we have, is the great power of information.  Is it REALLY the best idea to give google yet another avenue to collect our information?  Just a quick reminder to check about what Google knows about you and consider this before using the services: What does google know?

UPDATE: Google is not keeping your information.  See their privacy policy for more information.

Come up with a good password algorithm that works for you and diversify those passwords!  Change them on a regular basis, and you’ll be safer out on the web.

Here is a recent example of Twitter being compromised along with some other sites

Anybody with a hotmail account, Windows Live account, or msn account should take the time to change their password. This is confirmed by Microsoft, and a customer of mine had this happen to him: someone used his compromised password to send bad links to several of… his contacts.

More details here

Everyone needs a backup of some kind today.  All of you have data ranging from personal pictures and videos to financial files that you cannot lose.  Don’t wait for something catastrophic to happen.  Set yourself up with two forms of backup.  Corneredge recommends a FULLY AUTOMATED system to avoid forgetful humans getting in the way of your data.

After 15 years of backup experience, we have an excellent solution to ensure complete backups for your home or business.  Setting up on-site backups are critical, and we combine that with an automated encrypted off-site backup solution that allows you to send your backups off-site over the internet for a very small fee.   We utilize the latest in cloud storage, security, and replication technology to make sure you can retrieve your data.  We monitor logs to ensure they are happening on schedule, and we check the backups on a monthly basis with restore tests of your critical files.

Contact us today to make sure your data is safe.  Your data is worth it.

windows 7 tips & tricks ebook

Tips include:

Access Jump Lists with the Left Mouse Button
Application based Volume Mixer
Assign Keyboard Shortcuts for Programs
Check Windows Version
Copy Command Prompt Output
Create new instance of an Application in Windows 7 Super Taskbar
Customize the Windows 7 log-on screen
Customize UAC in Windows 7
Customize Windows 7 Power Button Action
Desktop wallpaper Slideshow : Shuffle Desktop background
Disable Wallpaper Change
Display a Message at Start Up
Display Multiple Clocks in System Tray
Dock Windows to Left Right Up down
Encrypt USB drive using BitLocker
Find out How Healthy Your Battery is on Your Laptop
Find Windows 7 Keys for all Versions
Find your Computer Uptime
Font Issues: Make easier to Read Screen Text
Get Vista like taskbar in Windows 7
How to Create Themes in Windows 7
How to disable restrict USB/Flash Drive in Windows 7
How to Remove “Folder opens in New Window” Problem
Install Windows Vista and Windows 7 using bootable USB storage device
Jump lists Customization
Jumplist in Taskbar Application
Launch Multiple instances of an Application
Lock The Screen Shortcut
Network Access Protection : Secure your Network
New Autoplay & Autorun options in Windows 7
On Screen Keyboard
Parental Controls in Windows 7
Prevent Windows 7 from Automatically Rebooting after Installing Windows Updates
Problem Steps Recorder
Remove Recycle Bin in Windows 7
Remove/Show Notify Area Icons
Rename Admin account in Windows 7
Rename Multiple Files @ Same time
Retrieve Built Details & other Information of Windows Installed
Set Ctrl+Alt+Del Options in Windows 7
Show Desktop Icon in Windows 7
Start Menu Customization
Sticky Notes Text Formatting
Super Taskbar
Turn off Balloon Notifications
Twenty Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
Upgrading From Windows 7 RC To Final
User Account pictures in Windows 7
Windows Application Compatibility Mode
Windows Media Player 12 : Customize Playlist
Windows Media Player 12 : Preview a song before adding to playlist
Windows Media Player 12 Jumplist feature

And the main reason I was so impressed is that I did the upgrade to my workstation with the following specs:

- Easily 10 different USB devices & 2 different hubs plugged in at all times
- Firewire used for video editing
- close to 100 applications installed from all over the place.
- VMWARE workstation installed running test machines & extra virtual network devices
- 12 gigs of ram
- two different RAID Configs for two sets of hard drives etc…

bottom line, its NOT a simple computer to upgrade.  I work the crap out of this machine daily, and it upgraded fine initially.

And that’s where I’m starting to struggle.  Just today:

1. I lost the nice Windows Aero feature.  Seems pretty hard to get back, which doesn’t make any sense.  The troubleshooter can tell me that my desktop manager services aren’t running, but I can’t turn them back on.  WHY so complicated?  Running this OS without the Aero is dull, I feel like I’m being punished and thrown back to a retro windows 2000 look now.  Let me switch it on if I want!!  I guess I’ll have to troubleshoot it for hours now to fix it.
2. I lost audio randomly, but after 5 minutes of waiting for the “troubleshooter” if fixed the service that wasn’t running.. how did it get turned off?  But wait my youtube videos don’t play sound now??
3. I’ve had a few programs crash/not work… a crystal reports runtime issue mainly for now…older programs, but still….
4. Backup – I have a buffalo terastation, an incredibly simple network storage device that I use for backup on my network.  The new Microsoft BACKUP program will NOT allow me to send a backup to a device without Network authentication of some unknown kind, so I can’t do a backup of files to my incredibly simple network storage unit.  YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!  I have to setup a Microsoft machine on my network for backups???  COME ON!!  I literally tried basic auth with a user name and password I was able to config and test, Microsoft backup won’t use it.  sweet!  I know, I’ll use an incredibly simple file replication tool instead.  Just use Karen’s Replicator if you need to run a backup.  It actually works over the network.

SO, hang in there, and don’t upgrade yet.  Microsoft has some patching to do and I’m stuck grumpy in windows 2000 land with crap I have to fix.

Go to this site to see what google knows about you:

Google Dashboard

Here is the video directly from google:

Its hard not to be scared of the total amount of information they track.  NOTHING is free folks, they are tracking EVERYTHING.  The data goes FAR beyond search.  For this reason I will NOT use their phone service.  They already know enough.

I encourage you to review the privacy policies and settings to make sure you are clear about how and what is being tracked.

PS – you can bet BING and Facebook know & track this information too…

Check out this article for further insight.

Google Dashboard Knows Too Much

When I upgraded my workstation to windows 7 earlier last week, I found that Kavoom! is not compatible with windows7.   (Or at least that’s what windows told me.  I honestly didn’t try re-installing, I couldn’t find the original download)  I went to check the Kavoom website for an update, and NOTHING?!  The site has been down for the last two weeks… so it forced me to look into a new solution.

Of course I easily found Synergy+ – a free tool that does the same thing.  Not as smooth of a setup process, but it seems to work fine.

So Kavoom is gone, but we are not lost… and perhaps the free option explains why they are gone.   Its a shame when a fair product that sells for $30 goes out of business due to a free solution.   Go open source, but its not fun to be a developer who owns an eliminated product… which is better?

UPDATE: Synergy also works with MAC and Linux… so yes, its cooler than Kavoom… its so nice to have my mac working also… 4 screens!