Create a Shortcut to open in your Alternate Browser

Here’s a quick and simple “How To” for you.  I had this question posed by a client the other day and it made me think.    This Client is a fan of FireFox.  It is his default browser and tries his best to NEVER use Internet Explorer.  But, as is the case with most things, the more you try to keep from using something that’s right when you find out you have to.

This was the case here.  He had a vendor’s website that would only work in IE AND he needed to use this website alot so, he had a shortcut on his desktop to get to it.  The problem is the Internet Shortcut will open in his Default Browser… Firefox.  Now,  since he uses IE so infrequently, you would think – just make the website in question the home page  and be done with it.  But that won’t help if you have more than one shortcut.

So, here we go.

• First, right-click on your desktop and select New —> Shortcut
  
• This will open a new Window.  Here you need to click “Browse” and Navigate to the folder containing the executable for the browser you are wanting to use.
  
• After selecting the executable you need to add your URL to the end. Make sure and put the URL outside the quotes surrounding the executable and make sure and put a space between the closing quote and the URL.
  
• Next, just give your new shortcut a creative name and click finish.
  

Now you have a URL Shortcut that will open in your non-default browser.

This doesn’t have to be just for Internet Explorer…  This will work for any browser you want used for this particular shortcut.  Firefox,  Chrome, Opera… whatever.

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Scammers: They really need to try something new

Happy Tuesday !!!   Unless you are not reading this on a Tuesday. In  which case I would say,   “ Happy   ________day!!”   So, this morning  I opened up my e-mail and was treated to another …  (*dum dum duuummm*) E-mail, scam attempt!!!  (I feel like there should be lightning strikes and thunder when I say that)

Not that I want anyone to get “taken in” by these foul creatures, I just think they need to have a little more ingenuity…  A little more creativity…  COME UP WITH SOMETHING NEW! You’re boring us already!!

But, in case that there are others out there who receive the e-mail I got and are “unsure” of its validity…  Then let me assure you that what you read below is A SCAM!   Delete this and go about your day.  Go to your local Panera Bread and have a cup of coffee and rejoice that you were not suckered today.  Hey, you could even treat yourself to one of their tasty pastries!

UNITED NATION (UN)
DEBT RECONCILIATION DEPARTMENT.
GENEVA-SWITZERLAND.
Our Ref: UN-0XX2/987/2010
Dear Sir/Madam,

EUROPEEAN UNION, WORLD BANK, UNITED NATION ORGANIZATION OFFICIAL APPROVAL PAYMENT VALUED $8.3M

The British Prime Minister in conjunction with EUROPEEAN UNION, WORLD BANK, UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION do hereby give this irrevocable approval order with Release Code: GNC/3480/02/00 in your favour for your Inheritance/contract entitlement/award winning payment with the UNITED NATIONS to your nominated bank account.

Now your new Payment, United Nations Approval No; UN5685P, White House Approved No: WH44CV, Reference No.-35460021, Allocation No: 674632 Password No: 339331, Pin Code No: 55674 and your Certificate of Merit Payment No: 103, Released Code No: Be
appeared the next on the list of our outstanding beneficiaries to received payment at the Beginning of this banking season. SO contact: MR. PETER JEFFERSON on his contact Direct email: mrpeterjefferson@aol.com or by Phone +44 7024060524 for the immediate release of your contract/inheritance/Award Winning claim Be informed that you are not allowed to correspond with any person or office anymore, You are required to send bellow Information for your transfer.

1) YOUR FULL NAME:
2) ADDRESS, CITY, STATE AND COUNTRY.
3) PHONE, FAX AND MOBILE
4) COMPANY NAME (IF ANY) POSITION AND ADDRESS
5) BANK DETAILS
6) PROFESSION, AGE AND MARITAL STATUS
7) COPY OF YOUR INT’L PASSPORT/DRIVERS LICENSE.

NOTE: YOUR PERSONAL CONTACT/COMMUNICATION CODE WITH CITI BANK IS (511), YOU ARE ADVICE TO SEND YOUR FULL BANKING INFORMATION TO THE CITI BANK OF LONDON THROUGH THE OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL REMMITTANCE DIRECTOR HEADED BY MR. PETER JEFFERSON AND MAKE SURE YOU SPEAK WITH HIM, WITH YOUR NEW PAYMENT CODE FOR THE RELEASE OF YOUR PAYMENT AND SEND HIM ALL YOUR BANKING INFORMATION NOW. Regard. Senate CONTACT CODE (511) OFFICER: MR. PETER JEFFERSON.

Best regards

SIR GEORGE GRAHAM.
DEBT RECONCILIATION DEPARTMENT.
UNITED NATIONS AND EUROPEEAN UNION.

As un-creative as they are being, they should just go ahead and sign this “Best regards,  Dirty Scammer“  It would only make it slightly more obvious.

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Warranty Schmarranty

Here’s an interesting read about Apple’s wonderful customer service. Note my sarcasm? 

Anyway, here’s a short clip of the article.

The Apple Retail Store Hates You  -

I recently visited the Apple store to exchange a defective power adapter which was still under warranty.  I still have the defective adapter, as it has now cost more time and effort than it was originally worth.

What I have lost is time, money, and trust in the ethics of the retail store.  What I have gained is disdain for their tactics and a sick feeling every time I hear “Apple Store.”

Why don’t I just dump my MacBook Pro and go with a PC?  Because my employer uses Mac-based programs and hardware and I don’t see my building replacing 300+ machines any time soon.  Whether “fanboy” or “hater,” my use of Apple products for work will change very little.  However, my personal purchase plans have already changed and I hope others might be spared some of the inconvienience and inepttude I experienced in my last visit:

Short version:

Rather than complete a simple warranty exchange, they want me to make an appointment to drive back to the store to exchange a defective power adapter that is well within the one-year warranty.  Seriously.  They actually wanted to put me on “Standby” and expected me to hang around for 2-3 hours in case a “genius”

Head on over to TardySlip.net to read the entire article.

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Windows 7 Telnet Client

I dropped to a command prompt today on my Windows 7 machine to telnet into my Cisco Router and found, that once Again the Microsoft telnet client is not installed.

It seems that, as with Windows vista, the Microsoft Telnet client is not installed by default.   But luckily it’s pretty easy to install,  just follow these simple steps:

1. Click the Start “Pearl” and select the Control Panel from the menu.
   
2. Once the Control Panel opens, double click the Programs and Features  applet.
   
3. A new window will open. Select “Turn Windows Features on or off” from the left menu.
   
4. Again, a new window will open. Check the box beside “Telnet Client” … Also, if you want to enable your “Telnet Server” or “TFTP Client” you can select them at this time also. Click Ok after you have finished your selections.
   
5. Windows will not prompt you that it is installing the components.
   

After if completes you will be able to make use of the Windows Telnet client.

Enjoy!

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Google Wave Invites

Hello peoples !! Want an Invite to Google Wave?  Well, as It so happens, I have a few to pass out. I’ve still not figured out how I am going to make use of this new service but, I log in from time to time and give it a go.  When I logged into my Google Wave account today I  found that I have 15 more invites to give away!  Hurray!?!?  Now, some of you may be asking: “What is Google Wave?” Well, who better to answer that than Google themselves:

Google Wave is a new online communication and collaboration tool that makes real-time interactions more seamless — in one place, you can communicate and collaborate using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is a conversation with multiple participants — participants are people added to a wave to discuss and collaborate on its content. Participants can reply any time and anywhere within a wave, and they can edit content and add more participants as a wave develops. It’s also possible to rewind waves with the playback functionality, to see what happened, and when.

Does that sound interesting to you?  Want and invite?  To get one of these ditties, take a moment  read another article on this site… Any one will work, a Friday Funny, a Rant, a support article,  anything that strikes your fancy.  Then tweet about that post, post a link to your tweet in the comments below this post and once I verify the tweet  I’ll add you to the invites list.

That’s it…

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Scam attempts: Aren’t they cute?

Howdy all! I hope all is well for everyone this fine day!

Today, I got a fresh scan attempt in my e-mail.  This one is interesting in that fact that  it abandons the old  “Hey, I’m in another country and my pop died and I need to funnel his money out…” route.  This is attempting to lure you in by embracing the whole “random internet user” thing… In fact it addressees  it’s opening remarks to “Internet User“…

Is this supposed to give you a sense of security?  I don’t know but, from our other received “Scam Attempts” we’ve learned that these vial excuses for human beings are quite inventive in their methods to defraud you.

So, as always, if you get the following in an e-mail – delete it.  Then, get in your car, drive down to your local Pilot and by a Powerball ticket… You’ll have as much chance winning at that as you would have the chance that such an e-mail would be legitimate.

CATEGORY “A” WINNER
Ref No: PJN/6109-101
Batch Number: NL 80 OS 94144448
Amount Won: $2,500,000.00

Dear Internet User

We are pleased to inform you of the result of our Internet Promotional Draws. This is a reward program for the patronage of internet services and all email addresses entered for this promotional draws were randomly selected from an internet resource database of of registered software and domain users.

Your email address was selected in the Category “A” with Reference Number PJN/6109-101, and this qualifies you to be the recipient of the grand prize award sum of $2,500,000 (Two million, five hundred thousand dollars). The payout of this cash prize to you will be subject to the final validations and satisfactory report that you are the bonafide owner of the winning email address.

In line with the governing rules of claim, you are required to establish contact with your designated claims agent via email or telephone with the particulars below:

Contact: Mr. Damien Lewis
Phone: +31 626 006 051
Email: lewis.d@live.nl

You are advised to call the Claims agent for confirmation or provide the following information for processing the payment of your cash award.

DATA PROFILE
Names:
Telephone/Fax number:
Nationality:
Age:
Occupation:
Winning Reference Number:

Failure to contact the claims agent after 14 days of this notice will result in the revision of award. Hence, you should commence your claims process immediately, by contacting the claims agent (Damien Lewis) who would be guiding you through the Claims process.

Congratulations on your Winning Prize and we look forward to completing your payout soon.

Yours Faithfully,
Emily Floyd
Promotions Co-ordinator

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