Business Strategy, Personal Development, Marketing
I keep seeing computer ads for PCs or Laptops that have Microsoft Vista Home Basic installed. DO NOT BUY A COMPUTER WITH VISTA HOME BASIC unless you want to pay for your upgrade to Windows 7. Microsoft has said that it will offer free OS upgrades to Windows 7, but only for Vista Home Premium … Read more
Not about the best features at all, but rather about how phony title tags direct searchers to less meaningful information, all in the name of SEO.
When Google released its Chrome browser, there was a lot of focus on two features, the faster JavaScript engine, named V8, and the privacy mode, named Incognito. The latter was the subject of much snickering and finger pointing as the blog-heads promptly nicknamed the feature “porno mode,” suggesting that the only reason for having a … Read more
When Google released its Chrome browser, there was a lot of focus on two features, the faster JavaScript engine, named V8, and the privacy mode, named Incognito. The latter was the subject of much snickering and finger pointing as the blog-heads promptly nicknamed the feature "porno mode," suggesting that the only reason for having a … Read more
I can’t ever properly Re-Tweet a truly interesting Tweet. That is because truly interesting tweets come from people who care about Tweeting interesting things. That means they don’t necessarily care about chopping their tweet down small enough to be re-Tweetable like those who care more about getting exposure and re-tweets than putting up interesting things … Read more
Does your computer Initialize Places Bar all of the sudden when you try to open or close Microsoft Office files like Word Documents? It’s your My Places Bar. You just didn’t know you had one. Make it stop.
Microsoft has released the official (no trojans) version of the Windows 7 Release Candidate on its website. Unlike the Windows 7 beta from earlier this year, there is no rush this time, at least not yet. Microsoft says that the RC will be available until July 2009 and that there is no limit on the … Read more
I recently stumbled upon NetSurveyor while trying to find the more well known NetStumbler utility. NetSurveyor seemed to also do what I was looking for, so I decided to give it a try. NetSurveyor 802.11 Discovery Tool Features As with NetStumbler, the standard usage of NetSurveyor is to scan the airwaves and find all of … Read more
So, today, I’m poking around my Windows Live account. I’ve had it for a while, but I’ve never really done anything with it. Basically, my entire reason for having it was to use Foldershare and then Windows Live Sync to keep some files and folders synchronized between my desktop computer and my laptop computer. I … Read more
It looks like Microsoft has every intention of releasing Windows 7.0 in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season this year. While that means December for you and me, it means something closer to September or October for retailers who build and ship their PCs into the channel long before the arrive in the store. … Read more
I recently moved my office down to the basement. It’s a nice space and everything, but it’s in the back of the house and the wireless access point is attached to the cable modem up in the front of the house. Now, I after the cluster-screw up I had with Windows random wireless network disconnects … Read more
Yea! I have my Windows Live Writer back! I downloaded BlogDesk but haven’t really messed around with it yet. The truth is that I can’t spend too much time on my own blogs and get all of my writing work done at the same time, so learning a new blogging program wasn’t top on my … Read more