Posted in Technology on Jul 18th, 2011 No Comments »
OK, this utility won’t really make Windows look like Windows Phone, but it seems Metro is everywhere these days. I just posted a note about making Windows 7 look like Windows 8, then I found this Metro Home open source project. This utlity/app/gadget will add a very nice looking metro styled info pane on your desktop. As a user [...]
Posted in Technology on Jul 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
Keep your eye on the Mosaic Project. It’s early early in development but looks really cool. Although it is in its infancy and a little quirky, it is stable and won’t have any ill-effect on your computer. I gave this a quick run through and it looks promising. http://mosaicproject.codeplex.com/ Tweet
Posted in Technology on Sep 8th, 2010 4 Comments »
Background I have gotten several emails about Windows 7 recently (and even a couple about Vista). Since I am in the middle of a large Win7 architectural and deployment project, I thought I would take time and jot down some thoughts and try to answer the emails in the progress. I don’t want to do a feature [...]
Posted in Technology on Aug 24th, 2010 No Comments »
I have had some emails recently from people wondering if I was still alive. I’ve also had messages from various people needing some technical advice. Obviously I am still alive. So, over the next few weeks I am going to make a concerted effort to put these emails into a blog entry. Here are some [...]
Posted in personal, Technology on Nov 16th, 2009 4 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 personal, Photography, Technology 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 [...]
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