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- Windows Vista upgrade FAQ
- No matter how much is written about Windows Vista, people still seem hungry for more information, and the most commonly asked questions all seem to revolve around upgrading an existing PC to Windows Vista from a previous version of Windows. To help those planning on making the leap, Ive...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Aero UI, graphics, system requirement, video card
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Just how much extra system resources does Vista Aero UI take?
- Whenever anyone mentions the Windows Vista operating system, someone is bound to bring up the fact that Windows Vista is slow and takes up to much in the way of system resources and that is needs some sort of supercomputer to run. This is plainly untrue and the people who are saying this...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Aero UI
- Blog posts 2006-09-29
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- Map Suite Web Edition (zip)
- Map Suite Web Edition is an ASP.NET server control that you can use to develop Internet and Intranet GIS applications with rich, interactive maps. Designed as an easy-to-learn .NET native component, Map Suite Web Edition makes Web-based GIS accessible to beginning and veteran developers alike. Now even more simple to...
- Tags: Web, Tool, ThinkGeo, GIS, .Net, C#, Channel Management, Productivity, Programming Languages, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-08-29
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover
- Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, IE8, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Tapulous developer fired
- Tapulous developer firedHe belongs in the Peace Corps not a corporation.In the text of his post he says he wanted to become "a real force for world change". I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but companies exist to make a profit - not to act as...
- Tags: Tapulous, Tapulous developer
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing front
- Signs of life emerge on the Vista marketing frontMarkets are based onDemand and Availability..Nobody needed a new OS at this stage.Nobody still does.. Ads won't change this.Plus for me.. i don't need fancy GUI tricks i could do 8 years ago under Enlightenment with X11 and Linux.There is no added...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Leopard, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Microsoft, eat your own dog food
- Microsoft, eat your own dog foodReally?"Using hidden aspects of Windows to advantage Microsoft's own applications has been disallowed and behavioral remedies including disclosure demanded."I can't find these in the DOJ settlement, please help: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f9400/9495.htmWe can of course look to the EU which did demand documentation of a small subset of...
- Tags: .NET, Middleware, food, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95No thanksI wouldn't take a free copy of Office...not with that godawful ribbon bar. You know you've screwed up the user interface of a product when a predominant question on websites seems to be "How do I print?". If you...
- Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, MS Office Ultimate, ribbon, Microsoft Corp., Weekend Gadget Guidance
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Windows: You say major; I say minor
- Windows: You say major; I say minorThey can call it anything they please. It is still overpriced JUNK.Get Linux :-)Duck the questionMaybe they should do another theme change. For a while it was a series number (3.1), then a year (95, 98, 98SE, 2000), then a letter combo XP,...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Pleasant 'Dream' for HTC, Google: FCC approves
- The FCC has approved HTC's 'Dream' phone, which will now be the first Android-based handset to hit the market, InfoWeek reports. It will support T-Mobile's 3G network. (Let's see if it handles 3G better than Apple and AT&T.) Looks like it will have a "jog ball" (trackball?),...
- Tags: FCC, Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Bluetooth, Federal Government, 3G, Wi-Fi, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Government, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Windows 7 wishes
- Windows 7 wishesOn layers.Per Ed's post, IE 8 continues to be integrated and integral to the OS. It is likely that many other user space apps that MS creates, will at least be partially embedded, if not completely.End user applications have no business being part of the OS itself,...
- Tags: Operating systems, 64-bit, Luna, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Wishes, operating system, Aero, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- My Windows 7 wish list
- My Windows 7 wish listPut more muscle in thereWhen you pay 100+ bucks, you'd expect it's loaded with more than just Notepad or Paint. Those two haven't had much major upgrade since Windows 3.0. If you want some themes, you shouldn't have to pay another 40 or so to get...
- Tags: Keyboards, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it
- 10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate itRE: really bad storyIt is a slow news day for me. But I thought it was one of the better breakdowns I'd seen and I'm also fishing for .NET/Mac hints.=Ryanreally bad storymust be a slow news day... they blog about...
- Tags: Microsoft development tools, Blogging, Microsoft Silverlight, Expression Blend
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?
- Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?By itself, the HTC will not kill much of anything, but, we might see thesame effect that limited the Mac to an niche. Android phones will be available from lots of different vendors, and carriers.RE: Will the HTC Dream be an iPhone killer?[i]Do...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, High Tech Computer Corp., iPhone-killer, Apple iPhone, killer, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Wordcamp 2008
- In the quiet flats of University of California San Francisco Mission Bay campus, bloggers, thinkers, journalists, developers, and inventors melt together for a full day of lectures and learning. The goal of Wordcamp 2008 is to figure out the future of publishing on the web. ...
- Tags: Open Source, Blog, Wordpress, Plug-in, Automattic, Wordcamp, Mullenweg 3:00, BuddyPress, Discovery Channel, Al Upton, ChickSpeak, ScholarPress, Netconcepts, Post Title, Akismet, Virality, Diso, Compliment Spam, Monotone, Prologue, GigaOm Daily, Gigalogue, Comments Screen, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-16
- LWUIT vs. JavaFX Mobile
- The light-weight user interface toolkit for Java ME LWUIT has been released as open source under the GPLv2+classpath exception license. LWUIT is a library that helps content developers in creating rich and consistent Java ME applications. LWUIT supports visual components, theming, transitions, animation, and more. Sounds similar to JavaFX doesn't...
- Tags: Developer, Phone, Mobile, LWUIT, JavaFX Mobile, Programming Languages, Java, Telecom & Utilities, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- HSBC could order 200,000 iPhones
- HSBC could order 200,000 iPhonesI see HSBCreceiving the really fantastic price they are looking for on the BlackberryHSBC Could Order 200,000 HTC Touch DiamondsReally, the title is simply not supported by the story.[i]We always explore the potential application of new technologies and this is no different....Hush said he did not...
- Tags: 3G, Apple iPhone, HSBC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-13
- Antispam Marisuite for The Bat (exe)
- Antispam Marisuite is a spam filter. The setup program takes care of configuring The Bat so you do not need do anything else and email filter begins work effective right after installation. Antispam Marisuite is based on trainable adaptive algorithm which will treat as spam anything you consider spam, even...
- Tags: Anti-spam, Marisuite, Antispam Marisuite, Spam, Cyberthreats, E-mail, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-08-13
- Linux, user interfaces and copying Apple
- Linux, user interfaces and copying AppleIt makes sense[i]He also stated that they have to clone less the look and feel of desktop Windows, even going so far as to state they would do better to clone the look and feel of Mac applications if they are writing applications for the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Desktops, Linux Interface, Linux, Apple Inc., Linux User, KDE, Microsoft Windows, desktop, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-08-12
- Do it Yourself Mojave
- Yup. I'm now a Vista user. As I mentioned in a previous post, circumstances have recently required that I buy a new desktop PC. It's not that I wasn't happy with my old PC -- it was a generic ASUS M2N32 Athlon...
- Tags: desktop, microsoft windows xp, operating system, microsoft windows vista, ram, machine, rachel, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), operating systems, microsoft windows, software, jason perlow
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
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