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 [...]
Trend Micro for Windows 7 Is Full of Fail
Long story short, rather than doing something productive, I’m undoing a mess created by the near-final beta of Trend Micro for Windows 7. I was installing the betas in a random pattern across the machines, to find out which one would give me the most headache. And, we have a winner! Long story short, some [...]
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