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 Technology, personal on Nov 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
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 6 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 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 [...]
Posted in OSU, Photography, Technology on Feb 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
There are several ways to stitch together photographs to make stunning panoramas. One of the easiest ways is with Microsoft’s free photo organizer called Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG). WLPG is a free download that works with XP, Vista, and now Windows 7. For Vista users, this tool is an evolution of Vista’s Photo Gallery [...]
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