Microsoft IE9 Ads Ruined by Post-Production Issues
Microsoft’s latest Internet Explorer 9 ad is actually pretty good. Unfortunately, whoever did the post-production in it for airing on TV, screwed it up completely. I’m referring to this ad, which you can watch on YouTube. Looks great, right? Now, watch it on TV. The television release of the same exact ad, which has been [...]
Why Intel & Canonical Should Make A Deal for Ubuntu MeeGo
For those of you living under a rock, I’ll prime this article with the information that you should already know. One, there’s a Linux-based platform called MeeGo. Two, it was formed by a partnership between Intel and Nokia. Three, Nokia bailed on it after Microsoft gave them a billion in cash and resources. Four, MeeGo [...]
iCloud’s Beta: More of the same?
I will start this article by saying that we don’t know everything that will be in iCloud just yet. However, I will say that I am disappointed at the pricing that has emerged on other web sites (here’s just one for example). At double the pricing for Amazon’s Cloud Drive, I can’t say I’ll be [...]
Internet Explorer 9′s Handling of Image Tags
For some reason, my web site was the first that I ran into which had a problem with Internet Explorer 9. Luckily, I found the problem quickly. The navigation buttons on the right were rendering flatly. With an inspector, I had noticed that the width img tag was defined, but for some reason the height [...]
Office 2011: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Now for me, something like this is pretty simple to work around. But, for someone not like me… this could be a bad start to a new relationship with Microsoft Office. No, the screen grab below has not been edited in any way, nor was it coaxed into fruition. It is what appeared after clicking [...]
The Mac App Store that Never Was, and the Windows App Store that May Be
A long time ago, in a Mac industry far, far away, there was a project I was secretly working on. It was a Mac App Store. For the sake of the developers, I’ll call them Team X. Team X had a great product on the market, it was great at updating Mac software. I wanted [...]
What to do when Microsoft sells you an invalid Product Key?
No seriously, I’m asking what department I’m supposed to go to. Here’s the deal. I purchased two Windows Vista Home Premium product keys way back when Vista was shipping. They were $50/each, under their Family Upgrade Discount deal. I purchased the keys from a special Windows e-store that is since defunct. Fast forward to 2009. [...]
Sprint Open Developer Conference Attendees: Do not use your Sprint 4G cards with Vista SP2 or Windows 7
That’s right. Unfortunately, Sprint just informed me that Vista SP2 and Windows 7 will not work with the Sprint 4G demo cards handed out at the Open Developers Conference. The reason is that Vista SP2 and Windows 7 are not compatible with the older Sprint SmartView included on the demo CD. That version of SmartView [...]
Weekend Hack: Upgrading My Xbox 360 Hard Drives to 120 GB (Updated)
As I noted earlier in the morning on Twitter, we’re doing an in-town office move Monday. So, I’m up late preparing for a smooth transition tomorrow. Anyways, on to the post… Sunday’s are becoming more of a day of rest for me. As a recovering workaholic, I don’t really have that balance down quite yet. [...]
Panda Antivirus for Windows 7 is Full of Fail
Not as bad as Trend Micro, but just about. I specifically told Panda to not auto-quarantine items, but instead to ask about each instance. Like other antivirus software, it now treats tracking cookies as an infection (which I hate, since it falsely tries to convince uninformed users about the importance of their antivirus software). This [...]
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