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 Technology on Oct 25th, 2009 6 Comments »
5/20/11 Note: For those of you still on Windows Mobile 6.5, I highly suggest you look into installing a custom ROM on your phone. The carriers release these phones and rarely go back and provide updates. As a result, your operating system is usually VERY out of date. Plus, a custom ROM gives you a [...]
Posted in Technology on Oct 21st, 2009 9 Comments »
Note from 2010: For those of you still on Windows Mobile 6.0 or 6.5, I highly suggest you look into installing a custom ROM on your phone. The carriers release these phones to market and rarely go back and provide updates. As a result, your operating system is stuck at a point in time and [...]
Posted in Technology on Oct 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
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 Jan 5th, 2009 4 Comments »
Check out this 10 photo panorama from the OSU campus. The sun was setting and the photos aren’t that great, but this is still cool. Using Silverlight’s Deep Zoom feature, you can zoom in, out, and all around. You can get close enough to see detail in these photos. I used the free Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) to [...]
Posted in Photography, Technology on Dec 11th, 2008 15 Comments »
Resize Photos in Windows 7 (and Vista too) Way back in 2001-2002, Microsoft released a set of free utilities for XP called PowerToys. Theses were small, very useful programs. One of the best tools in the set was the Image Resizer. Once installed, you could right-click on any photo, click on Resize Image, then select [...]
Posted in personal, Technology on Feb 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
I was the guy for years who HATED Microsoft for everything they did. When someone would mention they were looking at a Microsoft product, I would chime in with an alternative. In fact, when my company merged with another company it ruined my week thinking that my email system would soon be Exchange/Outlook. I spent [...]
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