Not using Spiceworks?

It really can help free up your time so you can spend time with your family and loved ones more without worrying about work.

Lots of people have started to think of there new year resolutions so why not make yours to use Spiceworks in the new year? Spiceworks can save you time and money and its FREE.

So the word free has grabbed your attention?

Spiceworks is 100% free and provides you with so many great features all designed to make your life easier.

• Inventory all of your Network, PCs & Macs
• Monitor & manage your network
• Manage changes
• Manage configurations
• Map your whole network quickly network
• Audit software
• Troubleshoot network problems
• Run an IT Help Desk
• Manage power consumption
• Monitor SQL Servers
• Talk to IT Pros Like You

Still unsure if Spiceworks can really help you? Have a read off a day in the life off and see just how all of those great features help you become a IT pro. Setup and use the Helpdesk to manage your time and then report on it and show how much work you do to get more pay or more time off.

Anyway, what is there to loose in trying? Spiceworks is 100% FREE and supported by a HUGE community of experts on not just Spiceworks but anything from Dell to Microsoft or even Intel. The community is there nearly 24 / 7 powered by people like you who may just have the answer to that question you have been thinking about for 3 weeks.

Already using Spiceworks?

You can save time too, with some simple plugins

• Keyboard Shortcut plugin – Navigate though Spiceworks quicker with this simple plug-in.
• Power Manager sponsored by Intel – Save not just time but money with this one, you can save money by shutting down machines in the evening but also time by not having to hunt around for ages trying to fine or make software to do this.
• Dell Search – Quickly search Dells website for machines and parts from within Spiceworks
• License Manager – This one will help you keep track of your licenses and make sure you are “legal”
• SQL Server Monitor – Monitor your SQL servers for problems before they happen.

This month the Spiceworks community gets to learn more about Dmitriy Beer.

How did you get into IT? How long have you been at it?

As with the most of fellow IT Pros, it’s the usual story of being interested in computers since the very early age. The story is slightly different in the fact that I am Russian born and historically the Eastern block was always poorer hence there was no way an average family could afford a computer at the time. Luckily at my mom’s workplace they were quite progressive, so I could get my hands on a couple of them when she was staying late at work.

Read the rest on the community

It is now officially Black Berry and Windows Mobile compatible.

With special thanks to the help from Mike Doyle for checking it on his BB’s.

Get it now from the Spiceworks community

Last minute rush to try and think of what to give your fellow IT pro’s this Christmas?

Why not send them a IT eCard about Spiceworks, it will make there working life easier and help them spend more time with loved ones. What better gift is there?

Send a eCard on Spiceworks.com

or download Spiceworks put it on a USB key and wrap it up

Something apparently not a lot of people know about is that in Spiceworks you can “Enable experimental fluid layout” this gives you a lot more room to work with in tickets the helpdesk and the inventory.

Read more below the images.

I use it all the time and there are some problems with some widgets where things are not able to stretch or just look funny. Most things how ever work perfectly, the network map, user portal editor, IT services, monitors and alerts and of course the inventory.

So how do you enable this?

• Settings
• Advanced & International Options
• Show pro settings (at the bottom)
• And the last one “Enable experimental fluid layout” set it to true

That’s it for now, have fun

So everyone by now must know about the totally random thread? Well W Bold spotted some cool lines of code in the MSSQL plugin

// Baking might result in a cake. We might bake. Therefore, we might have cake.

// Maybe having maybe cake is the same as maybe having cake.

// All cakes are tasty. It might be cake. Therefore, it might be tasty.

// Maybe all cakes are tasty. It might be cake. Therefore, it might be tasty.

// If we have sugar and flour, we make cake. We might have eggs. We might have flour. Therefore, we might make cake.

There are more…

// All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.

// All mortal creatures die. Therefore, if all creatures are mortal, then all creatures die.

// All mortal men are mortal.

// The Maybe monad. An optional value that may be Nothing or Just(a).

// If there might be cake, and we have a cake in case there’s no cake, then there definitely will be cake.

Thats not all of them! It’s definitely worth a read! Its a bit like the eaaster egg back in July…

Its what I love about Spiceworks, there so relaxed and fun loving guys

Get the MSSQL plugin now and checkout the source!

I found these on my phone when taking a picture of a server tag…

Click for a larger version

I don’t remember taking them though?

The first ones a little blurry I know but hay…

One of the great things about Spiceworks is there fun side to the application, remember the Easter egg?

This is another “great” feature in Spiceworks, being able to change your Spiceworks install to Pig Latin.

What is Pig Latin I hear some ask, Pig Latin is a language game of alterations played in English. For more jump on over to Wikipedia.

Give Pig Latin ago for yourself:

• Open Spiceworks
• Settings
• Advanced & International Options
• Locale
• Pig Latin
• Save

Have fun

According to one of the latest news articles from Spiceworks IE8 now out performs FireFox 3.5!

Its great to see speed improvements in Spiceworks but I was personally shocked by this one. It appears Spiceworks works faster in IE8 than it does Firefox, of course IE7 is still way behind.

Who knows how they fully managed it, could it be that the IE version has less functionality? It definitely doesn’t look as pretty, the corners in IE8 are square were Firefox they are rounded.

I certainly prefer the look and feel of it in Firefox.

So considering Firefox renders these nice corners I can allow for that small speed bump.

Read the whole article from the Spiceworks team

Were in the SpiceNews December with out article on how great the free support is!

Get FREE Support from Our Award-Winning Support Team!

The Spiceworks Support Team is rearin’-to-go to get to the bottom of your issue or question as one of our well-known users, Andy Phelps (AKP982), found out when he went undercover & put the Spiceworks Support Team to the test!

Read the full story on the Unofficial Spiceworks Blog »

Didn’t get the email? You can read it Spiceworks.com/news/archives

It was a fun post to make and great that Spiceworks feels it is important for people to see that they are second to none in providing support for all there users.