Archive for June 10th, 2008

Tip: Using Experts Exchange Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

 

Experts Exchange (http://www.experts-exchange.com/) is a great resource for getting answers to technical questions.

However to see the answer to previously posted questions it may first appear that you have to sign up/log in and or even pay for the service.

Tip: The not so secret top tip is if you scroll down to the very bottom of the page you will typically find the accepted solution to your question.

Revisiting My 6 Reasons I wont be an iPhone User Yet Post Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

6) Microsoft Exchange Support.

The iPhone 2.0 will have support for Exchange Servers.

5) The iPhone 1.0 was a 1.0 product.

The improvements in the  iPhone 2.0 hardware are worth the upgrade.

4) I don’t need an iPod Experience on my phone.

I have actually changed my mind on that. The iTunes ecosystem in the UK now supports both TV streaming, TV downloads and Movie rental and download. Making it much more desirable.

3) Not a big fan of O2

Not a lot I can do here. O2 still have exclusivity. I do wonder what anti Jailbreak technology will ship with iPhone 2.0.

2) Lack of 3G

iPhone 2.0 has 3g and GPS

1) The Cost.

O2 have now announced pricing: “Best of all, the new 8GB iPhone won’t cost you a penny on our £45 and £75 tariffs. And it’s just £99 on our £35 tariff and new £30 tariff”

So they get you with the monthly contract. TCO for an 8gb model is

£99 Handset, 18 Months @ £30 = £540 TCO for 18 months is £639
£99 Handset, 18 Months @ £35 = £630 TCO for 18 months is £729

£0 Handset, 18 Months @ £45 = £810 TCO for 18 months is £810
£0 Handset, 18 Months @ £75 = £1350 TCO for 18 months is £1350

So the pricing model even with the reduced handset cost is still prohibitivly expensive.

Summary

So my barriers to entry are the choice of O2 and the Cost.

Outlook 2007 Troubleshooting Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

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Microsoft have updated their main Outlook 2007 Troubleshooting document.

The Symptoms

You may experience one or more of the following performance issues in Outlook 2007:

• Outlook 2007 is slower than earlier versions of Microsoft Office Outlook.
• Outlook 2007 is slower than expected.
• Outlook 2007 is slower than expected when you access your mailbox.
• Outlook 2007 appears to be unresponsive.
• Outlook 2007 appears to stop responding for a long time.

Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940226/