Posted in personal, Technology on Aug 29th, 2011 15 Comments »
In the same manner I did with my HP TouchPad list of annoyances, I need to offer this disclaimer to diffuse any hate mail from hard core fans of Windows Phones. Here it is: Windows Phone is the best mobile operating system available today. I have a Samsung Focus (running the Windows Phone Mango beta), [...]
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 Photography, Technology on Jun 8th, 2011 4 Comments »
Looking for an easy way to select multiple files in Windows Explorer? There are several options. Old School File Selection: This method is tried and true and has been around since at least Windows 3.0 in 1990. To select multiple files, hold down ctrl while clicking on the individual files you want. To select a [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 18th, 2011 15 Comments »
Background Apple’s Mac OS X was a game changer for many reasons. First of all, it made Apple relevant again. The days of Microsoft pumping money into Apple to simply have a competitor and Mac being a hobbyist platform were now behind Apple. Secondly, and most impactful, was the effect OS X had on Microsoft. [...]
Posted in Technology on Jan 12th, 2011 2 Comments »
After the CES2011 demo last week of Windows running on an ARM CPU, there has been all kinds of speculation what this means. There’s even talk about a new touch interface for Windows codenamed Mosh which resembles the Windows Phone Metro UI. While it’s fun to speculate, most of the discussion has been around consumer [...]
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 [...]
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