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In this Issue:

• Featured Site - Pacifico Stone
• How to Reset Windows Explorer Folder View Settings to Make Vista Remember
• Sydney Water skips Vista
• Advertising could fund future broadband
• Kevin Rudd joins Twitter
• Quotes of the day

Featured Site  

Pacifico Stone

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Pacifico Stone is based in Sydney Australia at Sutherland Shire Caringbah; Our main products are Sandstone, Travertine, Basalt, Limestone, Marble and Granite.

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How to Reset Windows Explorer Folder View Settings to Make Vista Remember  

This is of major concern to people who make extensive use of desktop folders to store shortcuts to programs and/or URL's. You spend all that time formatting the folder and then next time you open it the format has changed and you have difficulty finding the icon you want. The article below and the link to the how to site will fix all those problems...

Vista sets the Explorer window view settings and folder type template according to what folder types are in the window. The following article will show you how to reset the Windows Explorer folder view settings, turn off Automatic Folder Type Discovery, and increase the folder view cache to have Vista remember the view settings, folder type template, size, or position of all windows as you last left them when closed.

Note

• The Windows Explorer window pane Layout settings are universal for all window templates. These are the Search Pane, Details Pane, Preview Pane, and Navigation Pane. They can only be turned on or off for all windows with the same folder template. For example, the Music Details, Music Icons, Pictures and Videos, All Items, Contacts, and Documents.
• This will have no affect on the memory for the Open, Save, and Save As dialog boxes for having them open to the same location.
• External devices (EX: USB drive) will not retain their folder view settings when turned off or disconnected from the computer.

Warning

The exact cause of Vista losing it's memory on your folder view settings has not been found yet. This may just reset them for now to help Vista remember them again. It has been noticed that changing a lot of window folder view settings in combination with some unknown applications settings may be triggering this forgetfulness. Make sure that you do not have a setting in a 3rd party program set to clear the folder view setting cache when it is used. (EX: CCleaner - Window Size/Location cache option under Cleaner -> Advanced)

URL: How to Reset Windows Explorer Folder View Settings to Make Vista Remember

Sydney Water skips Vista  

Sydney Water CIO Tim Catley today said the organisation would likely skip Vista and instead plan ahead to install Windows 7 on the organisation's 4,000 desktops, which are currently running Windows XP.

Catley, who since 2005 has worked to turn around Sydney Water's IT operations, said he would likely skip Vista because the threat of Microsoft putting the screws on hardware vendors to end support for XP had dissipated.

"I think we might skip Vista and wait for 7 to come along," Catley told ZDNet.com.au after delivering a speech at Gartner's 2008 Symposium ITExpo at the Sydney Convention Centre.

"I don't think the threat of hardware vendors pulling support for [XP] is going to eventuate — because now that they've announced [Windows] 7 the heat will go out of it," he said.

Catley's comments echoed industry opinion on Vista revealed in a recent survey showing that most businesses were happy to stay with XP and wait for Windows 7, which was revealed to Microsoft developers last month.

Locally, few businesses have upgraded to Vista. While Microsoft has found a home for the unloved operating system at Australian Customs Service, few others have chosen to migrate to Vista.

Catley's view stands in direct contrast to CEO of the company that has provided Sydney Water's managed desktop service since 2006, Dell. Michael Dell last year predicted 2009 would be the year for Vista. ZDNetAustralia November 2008.

Advertising could fund future broadband  

The leaders of two of Australia's largest ISP's see a viable business model in offering free or discounted broadband connectivity, sponsored by advertisements targeted according to a user's web surfing habits.

Privacy advocates have been rallying against the attempts of online advertising vehicles such as UK start-up Phorm to track web surfer's habits at ISP-level to deliver them targeted advertising.

But neither Justin Milne, group managing director of Telstra Media or Simon Hackett, managing director of Adelaide-based ISP Internode, have a problem with the concept. Both see a future where advertising might pay for broadband in much the same way as Google delivers targeted advertising to the users of its free Gmail webmail service.

"I don't have a problem with the notion of targeted advertising at an ISP level as long — as it's a choice our customers have got rather than a mandate," Hackett told ZDNet.com.au in a recent video interview. "I think that's one of the ways you'll possibly see us head in the future. So picture a world where you can choose to be shown targeted ads and pay less money, maybe even pay nothing, or just pay for the experience directly and not have the ads."

Hackett and Milne both see the advertising models used by traditional media giants (such as free-to-air television stations) as fundamentally flawed in today's internet-connected world. Internet technologies, they argue, offer far more viable models for advertising — to the point where ads actually become desirable to users.

"The problem with conventional advertising is in fact sheer waste," explains Hackett. "The fact that you throw a generic ad out about a sports car to people who don't give a flying anything about a sports car - [with the internet] you could spend ten times the money getting ten times the result."

"Picture a world where you might have an IP equivalent of a TV station and the ads actually tune themselves over time to what you said you wanted to see. You get the content free as long as you're prepared to watch the ads." ZDNet Australia November 2008. more >>>

Remember when we got Foxtel because is was add free, I see this as the thin edge of the wedge... ed.

Kevin Rudd joins Twitter  

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has started an account on the Twitter micro-blogging service, but it is not know if the politician maintains the account in person.

The PM's presence on the service comes behind opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull, who has maintained a presence on Twitter since October. Turnbull has been verified to post messages on his account personally and interact with the community.

At the time of writing Rudd's only post was "Looking forward to communicating with you on Twitter". He had 247 followers and was followed by 80 other people.

The Twitter account provides an addition to the PM's renewed web presence, which includes a Facebook account, a MySpace page, a YouTube Channel, and a personal website.

ZDNet Australia November 2008.

How appropriate... ed

Quotes of the Day  

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)

The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Dick Werthimer

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)

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