2006 October 10

[tags]windows, microsoft, windows vista, vista, pc[/tags]
Hours after installing the final beta of Windows Vista (also known as RC2), I’m finding myself a bit warmer to its shortcomings. The new Microsoft operating system will be far from polished perfectly, but I’ve heard that the development team still has a few tricks up its sleeve for the [...]

Escape to a whirling world of puzzling fun in Lotus Deluxe!
Whirlpools are swallowing all the lotus flowers, to the dismay of the water nymphs. Scan the flowers for identical matches and remove them before they fall into the spinning current.
This enchanting challenge features charming graphics, more than 75 levels, and two game modes. Take a [...]

Online Radio Tuner allows you to listen to online radio stations and optionally record the songs you hear as MP3 files. The program displays the album cover for the currently playing song whenever available, and can notify you of song changes from the system tray.
You can manually enter the URL of the broadcast you want [...]

Q: I want to start using Google AdWords, but how do I avoid “click fraud?”
A: Online advertising has become one of the most cost-effective and trackable forms of marketing available. Estimates for online advertising spending in 2005 ranged from $15 to $20 billion and expectations for 2006 are for an increase of more than 25%.
Amongst [...]

The System Restore feature was introduced in Windows XP and it is also included in Windows Vista. If you have never used this feature, you may want to disable it. However, keep in mind that if you do, you will not be able to use it to recover your system.
To disable the System Restore feature:

Click [...]

Each version of Windows has come with the oh-so-handy Run command. One thing you will likely notice when you install Windows Vista is that the Run command does not appear on the Start Menu.
The Run command is handy for quickly launching programs so it is worthwhile making a small configuration change to add it back [...]