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Jott and Spiceworks, a winning combination

So, I’ve used Jott for a while, and I like it. However, the little notes e-mailed to my inbox aren’t too helpful to me as my inbox gets quite full and it makes the notes easy to miss. Well, Jott got me real excited when they introduced their Jott Links. Now you can call in and Jott a Twitter...

Network Overhaul

Sending this update with Safari on my new iPhone. We’ve started our network overhaul at church. We are so far overdue with this, and it’s not going to be fun, but I’m glad we’re finally doing it. More to come from a regular keyboard later....

Outlook NK2 files

So, a while back Jason posted a tool for dealing with Outlook’s NK2 files. The tool is called NK2.info, imaginitively named after its Web site. As a brief briefing, the NK2 file is the file that contains Outlook’s address autocomplete data (when you start typing in the to box, these are the...

Time Issues

We launched our network time clock last week. Yes, we’re finally saying goodbye to “punching in.” It was an interesting implementation with very limited documentation, but we’re up and running now. We’ve launched the first phase with our facilities and kids workers. So,...

Inventory management and Help Desk in one!

I recently read David Szpunar’s post about Inventory management, and I’ve gotta tell you that his post was downright timely. I had been banging my head against a wall. How do I track all these computers? I started doing it with Excel manually, then realizing that I needed more dynamic...