ShoreTel – Checking Work Group Voice Mails

There are several good ways to check the voice mail for a workgroup in shoreTel. Here is a list of them, and some notes on getting them to work. The manual way – You can press the voice mail button on your phone. if it does not ask you for the extension number just press […]

Using a VPN with Windows 7

USING A VPN WITH WINDOWS 7:   Greetings once again Bloggees:   This month’s tip is for using a VPN in Windows 7.  For information about setting up a VPN in Windows XP, please refer to our blog, “How to setup Microsoft VPN.” _______________________________________________________________ To review, a VPN is a Virtual Private Network.  Wikipedia defines […]

Software install gives “setup has detected that your computer needs to be rebooted before continuing” error message.

If you get a “setup has detected that your computer needs to be rebooted before continuing” error message while installing software, and a reboot doesn’t do the trick, try the following: Modify the Windows Registry Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and then click the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlSession Manager In the right pane, […]

Happy birthday #FridayMix

Those of you who follow me on twitter (@acotgreave) will probably know that most Fridays I get involved in the rathe excellent FridayMix. This week it reaches its first birthday. I downloaded the full list of all 3500+ tracks that have appeared on a FridayMix and produced this viz of the most popular artists. #FridayMix […]

UK Budget Cuts

Following the budget cuts announced yesterday by George Osbourne I, like I’m sure many of you, have been trying to get to grips with what these cuts will mean for the country going forward. Clicking through some of the reaction on the BBC new website I found a neat visualisation comparing current departmental expenditure with […]

US Sexual Health and Behaviour Survey

Flowing Data laid down the challenge to visual the sexual health and behaviour dataset from Indiana University. Seemed like an interesting topic…. Here’s my attempt:

London 2012 ticket prices

London 2012 published the Olympic ticket prices today. There’s lots of good value seats to be had. I took the data from the London 2012 site and built this viz that you can use to find out how much your favourite sport will cost you: Note: this viz does not include the Opening or Closing […]

Bonfire of the Quangos

The government today published details of which quangos they are going to abolish. It’s pretty ruthless. Here’s an interactive viz using data from the Guardian Data Blog: Bonfire of the quangos Powered by Tableau Click on the Share button above to embed the viz in your own blog/webpage

Interflora v Marks & Spencer AdWords

I see that Interflora is suing M&S over the latter’s keyword piggy-back tactic. I notice that this is also happening in the Fast Analytics world: