Teething problems setting up my migration to ZIMBRA

Posted by Adrian on May 30, 2007 in Open Source | 2 comments I’m quite behind on my blog, and a lot has gone on in the past 2 weeks in respect of my personal migration from outlook to zimbra. First, I need to be clear that I am totally dependant on my sync’d nokia 9500 running with outlook to manage my business, my life and the variety of commercial projects I am running at any one time. Like any business, I get through a lot of email traffic,...
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Outlook type task manager alternative for those using Zimbra

Posted by Adrian on May 30, 2007 in Open Source | 0 comments Jake over at Senokian put me onto Toodledo, a free online tool that has a Firefox plugin http://www.toodledo.com Its not open source, but  its a useful interim tool for those (like me) that rely heavily on the GTD (getting things done) system of time management, but dont have outlook task manager (I am moving away fromall outlook v shortly) and know that Zimbra dosnt yet support tasks...
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Moving permanently from IE to Firefox

Posted by Adrian on May 30, 2007 in Open Source | 0 comments As the project leader and guinea pig for our migration, I’ve moved from IE to Firefox as my permanant web browser.  I’m still keeping an IE instalation for compatability checking of any of our new websites, but I do like firefox.  The plugins are great, I have ben using this SEO plugin for a while which is great if you do SEO...
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experiences of opening and using business MS word, excel and ppt files into open office

Posted by Adrian on May 22, 2007 in Open Source | 0 comments I’ve been running openoffice on my laptop now for seeveral weeks, and have to say its really good. There are a few new things to learn, numbering formats in Writer are slightly different to Word, and some XLS charts dont import well into Chart in open office and need redesigning. I dont agree with some that say openoffice is slow.  Its not, certainly on my laptop with normal business...
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outlook dies AGAIN, so I’m going to move to Zimbra

Posted by Adrian on May 22, 2007 in Open Source | 2 comments Last week my outlook PST file exceeded 2GB and died.  Using the MS recovery tools I managed to get a lot of it back, but certainly not all, and It look me the best part of 10 hours to start a new uncorrupted PST file, import and syncronise all my calendar, contacts and email.  This is a serious aste of my time, and this is not the first time this has happened either. So, today I am going...
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Dell to use Ubuntu as the Linux OS of choice!

Posted by Adrian on May 1, 2007 in Open Source | 1 comment Great news for us, Dell have indeed decided to specify Ubuntu as their prefered linux distro. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6610901.stm That makes buying new PCs, and especially laptops much easier! We are not currently a Dell user, but will almost certainly become one after this announcment. Good decision Dell!
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