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Twittering from Windows Mobile 6

Ben Weeks — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:14:00 +0100

Found a great post and bit of software at the following address:

http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=244

Download the CAB to your mobile device ...

How to Create a Text Resize Function Using Just JavaScript

Ben Weeks — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:05:00 +0000

In many hosting platforms, CMS products and alike, it's not always possible that you can (or at least have permission) to create server side code to perform text resizing. The usual way to acheive this is to write out a different CSS based on the users preferences.

Creating Daily Summary E-Mail Alerts for Workflow Tasks

Ben Weeks — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:06:00 +0000

By default, SharePoint 2007 sends an e-mail notification for each workflow task that is assigned to you (or your users). ...

Displaying Embedded Documents in a SharePoint Web Page

Ben Weeks — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:49:00 +0100

Let's suppose you want to display Word documents within a SharePoint web page. Here's one possible solution that uses IFrames to accomplish this.

Installing TomTom Navigator 5 on Windows Mobile 5 (Orange SPV M600)

Ben Weeks — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:10:00 +0100

I thought it was about time I purchased a GPS navigation software for my Orange SPV M600 after upgrading from my Nokia 6680. I used to use NaviCore, which wasn't too bad (can you believe all I had to do was insert the storage card they sent me into the device and it worked?). The features of TomTom sounded enticing though with the ability to use my contacts addresses, rather than having to type in all the addresses again like I did for NaviCore. So, it was either CoPilot Live 6 or TomTom Navigator 5. I thought as market leader, there must be good reason to go for TomTom, so went ahead and purchased TomTom Navigator 5 Software and Maps of Western Europe.

How to Test Your SMTP Server

Ben Weeks — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:43:00 +0100

Having problems sending mail through your own SMTP server?

Enabling the WSS Search

Ben Weeks — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:13:00 +0100

If the standard yellow box in the top right isn't appearing in a WSS site, then you need to enable searching. To enable the search, you must do a number of things, as outlined in this short post.

Inserting a Large Banner Image into SharePoint Portal

Ben Weeks — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 12:10:00 +0100

If you use the regular Site Settings > Change portal site properties and SharePoint site creation settings to insert a large banner image, you may find this expands the page too much as the Site Settings, Help and My Site links will get pushed further to the right.

Customizing the Portal

Ben Weeks — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:22:00 +0100

Here's my suggestion for best practice for making changes to the Portal. The idea is to basically leave the standard Microsoft SharePoint files alone, so that any changes we make can be easily undone, and if a service pack or fix is released, then it's got less chance of affecting our changes made.

Installing Smiling Goat RSS Reader

Ben Weeks — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:28:00 +0100

Follow this short post on how to install Smiling Goat RSS Reader.

Consuming RSS Feeds in SharePoint

Ben Weeks — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:49:00 +0100

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way of syndicating news type content and consuming that content for display onto your own website. Examples of RSS feeds are BBC news feeds, Microsoft Developer Information, and indeed this blog site itself can be syndicated. Consuming RSS feeds within SharePoint can be used by using a specific SharePoint Web Part that functions to grab the RSS content, and then transform that feed to be displayed on the page.

RSS Web Feed Times Out

Ben Weeks — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:40:00 +0100

For a dataview web part created in FrontPage to consume an RSS feed but get "The Web Part has timed out", then this short article gives some ideas.

Producing Graphs and Charts of SharePoint List Data

Ben Weeks — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:13:00 +0100

Using SharePoint, you can quite easily display tabular data of the information you have in a list. However, wouldn't it be cool if you could show charts of information stored in lists (not just a graphical view of surveys)? Well, this is indeed possible using a combination of DataViews and the Microsoft PivotChart Web Part.

Using Web Part Pages to Create a Multiple Page SharePoint Site

Ben Weeks — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:26:00 +0100

SharePoint is a great way to create dynamic content that can be asily updated. However, on first glance it looks like everything in a site for example, either has to be added to the homepage of that site, or linked to (such as documents, announcements, etc.).