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Ever want to find an picture on the internet?  Tough, huh?  Ever want to find a picture but found something close, but it wasn’t quite right?  Yup.  Well, try this!  Search By Image

Yeah, that is Google’s Search By Image.  Paste the url of the image that is close (or an image you want to see something else similar) and Google will deliver up a few images that appear to match what you have provided.

Let’s see how it does:

Here is my creation, Monkey with a Phaser:

Visually similar images found by Google SBI:

>>> Follow this link <<<

Not a bad job!  Not really Guerrilla Administration, but at least I included a monkey.

A customer came up to me a few minutes ago and asked me if she could undelete some emails.  Well, she did not so much come up to me and ask.  There was a bit of a sense of urgency in her voice.  Well, not so much urgency as it was panic.  And she did not ask, per say, it was more like this —————————–>

Naturally I said, no.  Almost every answer I give is NO, but then I do a Scotty (yes, from Star Trek) and say, “Unless…” and I check with Google (the Tech Support Guy’s Secret Weapon).  Low and behold there was a way to undelete emails that have been purged from the Recycle Bin… IF the Exchange Server is set up for such a contingency.  Luckily ours is.

Here is a shoutout to the guys over at addictivetips.com for their solution.

It goes like this: first click on your Deleted Items folder, next select the Folder tab, and if the Exchange Server is configured for it the Recover Deleted Items button will not be grayed out.  But never fear, if the server is not configured properly the link above will give you step by step instructions on how to fix that as well.

Good luck!

Move over VNC.  RDP?  Thing of the past.  Go to my PC?  Not anymore.  Join Me is a great web application for sharing or controlling a user computer, displaying a powerpoint presentation, even from Android or iPhone!

No subscriptions unless you want all the bells and whistles, but the free version is enough for most small to mid-range tech shops to support users across the hall or across the ocean.

Don’t take my word for it, visit http://join.me and have a friend or customer go there as well.  No logins, no passwords, no foolin’!  The customer only needs to click on the “share” button and the website will ask permission to run a small program, tell your user it’s ok and have them read you the number that appears.

You type in that number and click join and you are connected to their desktop.  You can see it, watch it, even take control of it (with the user’s permission).  The EASIEST way to remote to a customer’s machine, period.

I learned Outlook 2010 Conditional Formatting is COOL.

I learned the catchme virus is UNCOOL.  The new variant plays audio ads on your speakers from a iexplorer.exe task and redirects all your search links to random junk pages in the cloud.

I learned that standard ports AREN’T – (RDP usually listens on 3389… this time it was on port 49xx).  Had to examine registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber

I learned that no matter how many times you tell a customer to email you for the fastest response time they insist on using the telephone, then wonder why it takes so long for a response.  Actually I already knew this, but for the customer that you have told 17 times, it always strikes them as surprising as a dog with a new water dish.

I learned Facebook isn’t alive (yet).