Monthly Archive for July, 2008

FreshBooks Online Invoicing and Cleint Management

https://DA5.freshbooks.com/signup/
Freshbooks is awesome for the small business of contractors that needs to invoice his clients and track projects. The first 3 clients are free, then pricing plans accelerate after that. They broke the news to me over email when I asked that they have a plan not listed for 10 clients for 9.99/mo… Be sure to ask about it. It tracks your project times, creates invoices from your custom items, uses your custom logos on invoices, prepares estimates and tons more. It’s goodness!

Oh, and if you sign up with the link i have above, i get stuff – so… thanks in advance :-D

Disable UAC Security Warning Tray Baloon

The only real problem I have with Vista is UAC. So, disable it right? Well even if you do, the security center warns you repeatedly that UAC is off. There is no GUI option to disable this security warning.

So, to get around this annoying pop up you can make a registry fix.

Save the code below to FixUAC.reg and run it to add it to your registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\Monitoring]

Or, if you trust me you can download it directly here by right clicking and choosing save as:
FixUAC.reg

Compiz desktop looks beautiful!

My friend recently lead me to the most awesome desktop environment available, called Compiz (stupid sounding name). The videos below show the basics of it, and I love it. This isn’t available in any VM, so you’ll have to be running Linux dual boot or full blown. I know for sure it works on Fedora and Ubuntu, but you’ll have to check on any other distros. The good news is that VMWare 6.5 is working towards better DirectX support, so you’ll be able to possibly run this when that comes out final on VMWare Workstation.

But for now, if you’re running Linux – this looks like a must have.

Backing up Sharepoint Services 3 via command line stsadm.exe

Stsadm -o backup -url http://localhost -filename site.bak

thats it!
got it from here.