More iTunes weirdness today:

Sure, I’ve got a lot of songs but, Wow! It stuck like that until I restarted iTunes.

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An iTunes update this morning finished by prompting me to install the Safari (Mac web browser) 3.1.2 update on my Vista Ultimate laptop.
I scratched my head a bit because, A) I don’t have Safari installed on this machine, and B) the pop-up window had a glitch:

Apparently the Safari-on-Windows carpet bomb bug announced May […]

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If you have Mac users who are using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2.0 (Beta 2), here’s a heads-up that it’s set to expire on March 31, 2008. 

This came as a bit of a shock to me since I don’t see any news about a replacement final version or Beta […]

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I read a LOT of blogs. And by a lot, I confess that it sometimes creeps up to triple digits (in feeds, not just posts). So, since this is the first Saturday of the year, I’m doing the annual pruning the dead wood from the RSS reader.
Who gets the axe? The stale, the blog parrots, […]

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From the Help Desk file…
Reported issue: Client can’t open an email attachment. Attachment name: MessedUp.xls (file name changed for jocularity) Details: When you try to open the attachment, Excel pops up the error message:
"The file you are trying to open, ‘MessedUp.xls’, is in a different format than specified […]

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Yes, you’re on the right blog. Don’t freak.
Not too long ago, a customer with a shiny new iPhone called and wanted to get it hooked up to their Small Business Server 2003 server.  No biggie, right?  Well, POP3 is one thing, but little did I know then that IMAP on SBS with an iPhone was […]

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According to the latest Apple security update (2007-005), Macs need patches just like any other personal computer.  And these aren’t soft and fuzzy patches for iPods. 
This security update corrects 17 vulnerabilities affecting software packages that ship as part of OS X 10.3.9 and 10.4.9. Some of these vulnerabilities allow attackers to execute any code they […]

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Back in January at the EVO Launch in Louisville I met a ton of new people.  One of them was Erik Eckel from Computer Troubleshooters (super-nice guy!) 
Erik recently had an article published on TechRepublic (April 6, 2007) that I’d like to share with everyone who works in smaller Windows networks that include Macs.
This article provides […]

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