2007 February

Microsoft is taking beta applications for their Windows Home Server operating system. Requirements are:
“Who is an ideal candidate to participate in the Windows Home Server Beta 2 program (English-only version)?
People with:

Two or more PCs
A broadband connection and router
A spare PC or server that can be dedicated to Windows Home Server software”

Candidates need [...]

Google has started offering a paid Applications Premier Edition service along side it’s Free services it already provides.
The Applications Premier Edition service will include:

E-mail services with up to 10G of space and a 99.9 guarantee of uptime with 24/7 tech. support.
Word processing, spreadsheets and calender management services.
Free until April 30th to try - than [...]

Here are 3 things that I have found that you don’t want to do to Vista, no matter how you feel about Microsoft or the new operating system. These features can be found in Control Panel - System and Maintenance - Performance Information and Tools. On the left pane, you’ll see optional tasks you can [...]

One of the major problems associated with Windows XP was the fact that we had total administrative privileges over our systems, which meant we could install software, change settings and make modifications. This was great until the bad guys learned to exploit this feature. I remember the first call I got about malware advertisements popping [...]

Microsoft has released a list of software products that Microsoft has tested as being either Vista Certfied or Vista Capable and should work with the newest release of Microsoft’s operating system. But this is not the entire listing of all software that functions well with Vista. Microsoft is merely indicating that these software products will [...]

Would you like instruction on how Google does it from a real world Google person? Well that is what is actually happening at the University of Washington campus. It seems that what is being taught to students at the college level has been out dated. So in stepped a 26 year old college grad who [...]

This morning was just a typical day starting out with nothing unusual happening, until I fired up Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. I immediately spotted the warning from Windows indicating a protection and service were not working properly. Then I received a pop up asking if I wanted to send a report to Microsoft, Sure, why [...]

Cuba it seems, is going to embrace open source, since they no longer want to use products from the imperialistic software company known as Microsoft. The Cubans have over 3,000 people using computers in their country, up from the 150 previously reported.
WOW! Maybe what should of been reported was the following:
Get over it Cuba. Communism [...]

Web 2.0 - you see it mentioned all over the Internet. And it seems like Web 2.0 is the latest buzz word that is battered around in the news, forums, and blogs. Here is the best part. There is no current 100% correct definition of exactly what it is. Everyone seems to have a different [...]

Microsoft is making available their Virtual PC 2007 for Free. Their website also includes documentation and helpful hints to use the software. This is a great way to learn about virtualization and how to run multiple operating systems from one machine.
I previously used Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004, and it worked very well. If the new [...]

It seems that the father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has fired a shot across the bow of the Gnome developers saying that they “treat users as idiots”. After a verbal exchange, Torvalds decided to issue his own patch fixing what he didn’t like about Gnome, then told the world he had [...]

VMware is offering a Free converter which will unable the user to convert physical machines to virtual machines using a simple Wizard that guides the user step by step. I have found a great tutorial you can follow that will assist you in setting up your new vitualization system.
The software is further described as:
“VMware Converter [...]

Google is in the spotlight once again, in that it was confirmed that they are working on artificial intelligence, which may not be to far off in the near future. In his speech to the The American Association for the Advancement of Science conference being held in San Francisco, one of the founders of Google, [...]

Well Dell’s new IdeaStorm site really must be doing one heck of a lot of business, because it was at overload last night. And what are some of the suggestions that keep coming up?
Well there is a group of customers that would like to see Dell selling their PC’s with Linux and Open Office pre-installed [...]

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices - has been the thorn in Intel’s side since this small, but mighty chip maker, has been producing CPU’s. I have used AMD chips for about 12 + years, for two reasons. First they have normally been less expensive and second, they are extremely reliable.
Short story. About 9 years ago, [...]

That didn’t take long. I had just posted a story about Dell’s new website [story here] and sited a few instances where readers were complaining about the amount of JUNK software that comes preinstalled, when I received a email about a program called “The PC Decrapifier”
According the program author, this software will remove [...]

As the story goes, seems like a school teacher in a small Russian providence, bought 12 computers for his students to use. However, whether intentional or not, the computers used illegal pirated copies of Microsoft’s software. The story is hazy as to what the product[s] were. Which doesn’t really matter, since most software being used [...]

Driver problems still seem to be plaguing Microsoft Windows Vista, which is strange, since Vista included more drivers in their database than any other Windows release. But just the same, folks are struggling to get some of their hardware working correctly. I myself, have a half working sound card. Plays everything but Windows sounds which [...]

Your boss decides to upgrade the office computers to Windows Vista Business Edition. The first thing you notice, since you are a hard working, dedicated employee is that there are no games. Now what?
Well the games are there, but just hidden. Here’s how to get the games back:
Click on the Start button, then go to [...]

Microsoft has included some tricks for using in Windows Vista that should make your computing experience more enjoyable. Or at least make some of the task easier to use.
If you would like to check your PC’s health:
Open up Control Panel and click on the Performance Information and Tools icon. Than open Advanced tools from the [...]