CyberArtisans Newsletter Vol 6, Number 2

Welcome to the February 2007 issue of the CyberArtisans monthly newsletter!

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This Month's Topics
Daylight Savings Time Update
Run Your Home or Office PC Remotely

Daylight Savings Time Update

Microsoft has come through on its promise to have complete instructions up for Daylight Savings Time (DST) before the changeover, which, you will remember, starts on 2:00 AM March 11, 2007 and ends 2:00 AM November 4, 2007.

The page is located at http://su pport.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst. For most of us, select Home user and follow the directions. A few things to remember:

1. Print out or copy the directions, since in most instances the directions disappear when you download the update
2. Go all the way through, especially if you use Outlook for appointments, because there is a separate update procedure for Outlook
3. If you have a Windows-based PDA or phone, go back to the starting page, select Handheld Device, and follow those instructions all they way through. This will involve yet another download if you connect your PDA or phone to your computer

Note that if you use any version of Windows prior to Windows 2000, you're out of luck -- Microsoft is no longer supporting those operating systems.

Run Your Home or Office PC Remotely

We often find that when we are on the road we need files or information that are only one place -- on our office computer. No problem! We simply find a local computer, go to www.LogMeIn.com and connect up to our office system. At that point, it's almost like having your office system running on the local computer. We've done this a few miles from the office (Boston) and a lot of miles from the office (Brussels, Beijing, and Hong Kong). LogMeIn has a free version, which has limited capability, and a paid version that adds features that some might find useful.

We settled on LogMeIn, but it is certainly not the only such service. Google "Remote PC" and run through the various vendors to see what they offer.

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Jonathan Spencer
CyberArtisans Web Developers

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