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better than the clipboard

Stan called our radio show asking about an “autofill” program…

I’m using Ditto: “…saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items: text, images, html, and more.

“The program is available in English – Chinese – Croatian – Dutch – French – German – Italian – Japanese – Polish – Portuguese – Romanian – Spanish – Swedish – Turkish…”

There’s an installable version, and a “Portable” one.

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Dell announces ProSupport for IT, and good news it is!

“Dell Breaks the Mold of Tradional Support” reads the headline out of Round Rock, Texas, as they announced ProSupport for IT in hopes of “Breaking the mold of tradional, one size fits all, services offerings…” (For the full Dell press release click here.)

As an IT professional whose employer uses Dell workstations, servers and other periphrals almost exclusively (we have a few Mac’s, a workroom full of Xerox printers, etc.) it has been a love/hate relationship when it comes to getting Dell Customer Service Representatives (DCSR) to provide what I need and in the time frame I need it.

Either the experience is unbelievably easy and quick or I end up wishing I was chewing broken glass rather than spend another moment with an unresponsive, sub-human being whose singular goal appears to get me to hang up out of frustration. (The later scenerio has become quite rare in the BUSINESS world, but still prevalent in the HOME user enviroment.)

The ProSupport for IT website seems intuitive and rich in content…it is my intent to report my personal experiences in depth as I ‘test’ the site AND when next I need IT support from Dell.Stay tuned!

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Hands On: The Dell XPS One

The hardest thing with any review is being objective and impartial; usually I find myself emotionally attached – either positive or negative – and wanting to either rave or berate a product based on how I feel about it…and the Dell XPS One makes it very difficult for me to don a Mr. Spock-like attitude for this report.
The 20” XPS One , an All-in-One computer system, is the newest in the Dell XPS lineup, and debuted in November 2007, alongside another first, The Dell Latitude XT Tablet PC. (More on that when I can get my hands on one!)

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The Techie’s Techie Guy blog up and running

Diamond Dave, a long time friend, listener and contributor to Tech Talk Radio, has finally decided to ‘go public’ with his reviews on tech related tools, toys and more. To this end “The Techie’s Tech Guy” blog was born and DD is looking for as many people to review and comment on his findings as care to add their two-techie-cents! Check it out and feel free to send suggestions of stuff that you’d like to see reviewed to DD as well.

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