Technology Soapbox

So I was thinking of a topic I could write about and I had drupal on the brain.

You may or may not know that this site is done in Drupal Drupal is a open source cms that is very powerful and pretty easy to use. My friend Brian Ratzker and I have been working on a bunch of sites and they all use drupal. People think that drupal is mostly used only for blogs but they are very wrong.

So its a new year and I see everywhere "10 tech things i cant live without" so I figured I would let you guys know 10 websites I cant live with out or kinda a top 10.

10 . reddit.com
What I really like about this site is that they always have some of the latest news. But be careful the users on this site are pretty mean.

9. wired.com
This site and magazine is popping up everywhere.

8. Google Reader

I ran into this issue the other day and found this quick tip.

Open the Device Manager and find the USB drive

Right click the drive and select Properties.

Choose Policies tab and select the "Optimize for performance" option.

Then Format the Drive in NTFS Format. Make sure to do a full format a quick format will not work.

I heard about this craze called twitter at a roof deck party in the city one night this summer and was super interested so I made an account and checked out. I found out it was mostly for people on the go sending updates on what they were doing via their cell phone. I started doing some research on a twitter client on my blackberry and found twitterberry. This program works well but I was always jealous of my friends who had iphones and where using the twinkle app. They could take a photo and it would automatically sent to twitpic and get published to there feed.

Recently I installed Microsoft Search Server 2008 (it is a Google for all of your documents on a file server or website) on one of my servers in my server farm. All I have to say is WOW. This is a hidden jewel in MS vault. I was shocked how powerful it was and all for the low price of zero dollars. One problem I did have was that all my PDF docs where getting indexed but it seemed like they never came up in searches.

Has any one else not been able to watch the Olympics online because there Cable provider is not a video partnership. I live in NY and I am not able to watch streaming video. My Buddie told me he used a zip code in CT but when I entered a zip code from there I got this pop-up

Let me start this blog post with a little warning notice "I LOVE BLACKBERRIES" With that said I recently just bought the new 8330 Curve Blackberry and it has to be to date one of the best cell phones I have ever owned.

In the past I use to only buy LG phone because I thought they worked great and had great call quality. One day my friend Keith told me about this new Blackberry he just picked up. It was the 7250

I stumbled across this great article about having Citrix on the Iphone. They pose this question "Do you need a Citrix client for the iPhone ?" My answer is YES. This would totally make me want to ditch my BES Server and all my blackberry's to move over to Ipohne. Just the other day I had an employee ask me to email him a document that was stored inside of our network.

What are you going to do when you switch from Windows XP to Windows Vista Business and you cannot find an html editor for free. Keep on looking. It took me more time then I would like to admit to find something that actually worked well with Vista. The program I ended up finding was HTML-Kit it does all the things I am looking for in a editor and more. Below are some of the features.

HTML-Kit Shorthand

There is a great tool that I have been useing for years and I am not sure how many people use it. Its called Robocopy. Robocopy is available for free with the download Windows Resource Kit since Windows NT 4.0, it has never been an official feature of the operating system until the arrival of Vista. If you want to copy alot of data fast this is the tool you should be useing. Here is the command line syntax

Syntax