Posted in Technology on Jan 9th, 2010 No Comments »
One of the great things about my job is that I get to test new gear from time to time. Most of the time this usually consists of new computers that are just a new iterations of existing models. On occasion, something interesting comes along. Dell has recently entered the specialty market of ruggedized computers. Although [...]
Posted in Technology, personal on Nov 16th, 2009 No Comments »
WordPress is a great blogging platform which is updated frequently with useful features. However, as useful as it is, the WordPress developers realize they cannot make a platform that contains every single feature that every user could possibly need. As a result, they have made the platform extensible so that other people can create plugins [...]
Posted in Technology on Nov 9th, 2009 2 Comments »
It was raining a few weeks ago and I got a little bored. For some reason I wanted to load up OS/2 Warp as a Windows 7 Virtual PC instance. You may recall that Windows 7 has XP Mode, but that doesn’t mean you cannot run other operating systems. Check out the screen shot below. The [...]
Posted in Photography, Technology, personal on Oct 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
I took the boys and dogs for a walk in our backyard this afternoon and of course I took a camera. I saw a tree with a single leaf hanging on and had to grab a shot. After some processing in Photoshop and Nik’s Color Efex Pro, I came up with a nice Autumn theme [...]
Posted in Technology on Oct 25th, 2009 4 Comments »
In last week’s post about my new AT&T Tilt 2, I asked the question if anyone knew how to remove the “Getting Started” item from the Windows Mobile, I mean Windows Phone 6.5 default menu. There is no menu editor included with my phone (that I can find) so I was stuck with this useless item taking [...]
Posted in Technology on Oct 21st, 2009 6 Comments »
I’m not a phone geek but on the other hand I don’t want a clunker phone. I want a good phone that will last a couple of years. After having an AT&T Tilt (made by HTC) for nearly three years I decided it was time for a new phone. This was a good phone that [...]
Posted in Technology on Oct 17th, 2009 1 Comment »
In simplest terms, XP Mode is XP Professional running as a virtualized instance in Windows 7. If you’re not familiar with virtualization, it is essentially running a copy of Windows XP as an app within Windows 7. XP mode is an optional free download for Windows 7 Ultimate and Professional and includes a full copy of a [...]
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