Posts Tagged ‘Windows’
The Truth About Geniuses, Viruses and Good Marketing
In: Technology
13 May 2009If you have seen Apple’s recent crop of ads to counter Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter Ads, you will find two themes: Apple Genius’ are amazing at technical support, and Windows computers just don’t operate without crashing and constantly catch viruses. Of course these are just marketing gimmicks, just like the Laptop Hunter ads were also, but [...]
Breaking Down the Mac/PC Price Debate
In: Technology
28 Mar 2009If you read the likes of Gizmodo, EnGadget, MacRumors, etc., the new Microsoft commercial is leaving a serious wake. People on both sides are in a tizzy and it’s pretty entertaining.
Laptop Hunters #1 – Lauren
I thought I would put out the flames for a minute and look at this in a [...]
Copied World of Warcraft from another machine to save time and now you can’t update? Here’s a fix…
In: Gaming
22 Feb 2009World of Warcraft is a beast to install alone, patching it up to the latest version is another story. Many people, me included, will make a backup of the World of Warcraft folder to save time installing it on a new machine. This used to work just dandy, but now you might find yourself presented [...]
Is Windows 7 Aero Peek a copy of Apple Expose?
In: Technology
11 Jan 2009A few of my Mac centric friends saw my blog post on Windows 7 and said that Aero Peek ripped off Apple’s Expose. Let’s make this clear, I have 3 Macs running OS X Leopard, I use them all of them time, and I think that makes me pretty credible to judge Mac OS X [...]
Is the Linux advantage Free or Freedom?
In: Technology
7 Jan 2009I have been quite actively interjecting my own opinion in a thread on a website about Linux. I know, I know, don’t say anything if you can’t say something nice, but sometimes it’s just so much fun. There is actually quite a bit nice to say about Linux, I just happen to believe that it [...]
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- Tags: Microsoft, Vista, Windows
Apple, now the obnoxious asshole from your high school reunion.
In: Humor
20 Oct 2008 You know the drill, there was the guy that was kind of dweebish in high school. Not too many friends, got picked on for his forward thinking style (Chucks before they were cool kind of thing) and his penchant for out of mainstream music and insisting on listening to vinyl instead of CD.
Fast-forward to [...]
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- Tags: Apple, Mac, Windows
How-To: Auto-Connect to Windows Shares from OS X
In: Technology
24 Sep 2008 So you live in a Mac/PC hybrid environment and you regularly have to share files between them, right? Well, I don’t think it’s that uncommon, and there are several ways to tackle this problem, but I thought I would share with you my approach.
First we have to start out with a little bit of [...]
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- Tags: OS X, Windows
Confessions of a Microsoft Mac User
In: Technology
23 Sep 2008There are several like me at Microsoft. Some more extreme, some less, and there are also those there that would like to hang me for my transgressions. (right Scott?) The truth remains that I work at as an Engineer at Microsoft and most of my home computing is done on a Mac.
Of course I am [...]
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- Tags: Mac, Windows
First let me say that I am a Microsoft employee and this post is pure opinion and not an official position of my employer. That being said, reading my morning dose of feeds I have already came across nearly a dozen articles whining that Windows 7 looks just like Windows Vista.
Not to go directly at [...]
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- Tags: OS X, Vista, Windows
Preview: KallOut – Contextual Based Search for Windows
In: Online
25 Jun 2008Today I was contacted by the folks at KallOut to tell me about their product that competes with the Hyperwords Firefox Plugin I blogged about earlier.
KallOut is what Hyperwords is, but for more than just Firefox. I am calling this a preview, because as I am sitting upstairs tonight blogging on my Macbook Pro, I [...]
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- Tags: Windows
I would venture to say that given this site’s general topic of OS Agnostic computing, I know more than most the arguments for and against these two titan operating systems. The arguments against Vista are legendary. I have made no secret of the fact that I started carrying a Macbook Pro in September of last [...]
Windows Media Center, You’ve Come A Long Way Baby…
In: Technology
24 May 2008I have had quite a mish mash of different home wide media solutions over the course of time and each one seems to get a little better. This time I think it’s about as seamless as it can get and I have to say I am very impressed. Two of my co-workers had been singing [...]
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- Tags: 64-bit, Media Center, Windows, Xbox 360
I decided that it was time to make a concerted effort to get my TV-Tuner card working in Windows Vista 64-bit edition so I could watch TV in my downstairs office without having to have a dedicated TV for the purpose. This meant breaking down and trying to figure out how to get the [...]
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- Tags: 64-bit, Microsoft, Vista, Windows
Say it ain’t so Apple, Safari now iTunes crapware???
In: Random
19 Mar 2008On my main machine I had installed Safari for Windows for testing purposes. Knowing that, I was not surprised when Apple’s update software alerted me that 3.1 was available for download. I updated and all was right with the world.
I saw update pop up on my wife’s machine this week and noticed Safari in the [...]
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- Tags: Apple, iTunes, Safari, Windows
Are you tired of bloated PDF readers? Ditch Adobe and go with Foxit PDF Reader…
In: Technology
28 Feb 2008There are some things that you just have to do when you set up a new PC. One of the necessary evils is Adobe’s PDF Reader.
Now back in the day it was as light as a feather. 1-2 MB installer and you were done. Today, the behemoth clocks in at 22.4 MB. Think about that. [...]
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- Tags: Windows
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