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Quicken, Windows, and WTF is happening?

I just installed Quicken 2008 for Windows, and ran it for the first time. Being a Quicken user before, when I got to the following dialog box, I clicked the [Next] button.
 
It’s been eight minutes since I clicked the Next button, and aside from massive hard drive thrashing, nothing is happening. There are no other [...]

Posted 08 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0)

Syncing Google calendars with Outlook 2007

I was trying to get Outlook 2007 to sync with my Google calendars. For those who don’t know, doing this takes a few quick steps:

Go to your Google Calendar page.
Under the My Calendars section on the left, click the down-arrow next to the calendar you want to sync, and select Calendar Settings.
At the bottom, click [...]

Posted 04 January 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3)

Who needs Photoshop? I have Paint.NET!

Granted, I’m no graphics designer, so my graphic editing needs are pretty mundane. Still, I need to crop, resize, recolor, reformat, enhance, distort, and do all those other fun things to images from time to time. I also need to mock up web pages and graphics. I could buy Photoshop to do this, but I [...]

Posted 18 December 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2)

Defeating WebSense

I have two laptops (one personal, one work) and one home desktop PC. It would be nice to have some files synchronized between them all. I already use Mozy to back up my personal laptop, but that doesn’t address synchronization issues.
I wanted a web-based solution (similar to Mozy), so I did a quick Google search [...]

Posted 19 October 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3)

Excel crashes, and flooding Microsoft with error reports

Excel 2007 crashed on me while I was scrolling vertically using the mouse wheel. Impressively, Excel was able to recover, apparently right back where I left off scrolling.
I continued trying to scroll (again with the mouse wheel), and once again, after about 100 or so rows scroll by, Excel crashes again. This time, I [...]

Posted 05 June 2007 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (11)