Windows 7 ships with a host of great features and applications. It also carries a lot of dead weight inherited from its predecessors. The following three applications have received little or no attention from Microsoft as the years have progressed – and their fate is none improved in Windows 7. What’s more, there are free [...]
Since I use Google Chat to keep in contact with family and friends, I’ve used the desktop version of Chat to alert me when I receive new messages through my Gmail address. While Desktop Chat is nice, it has yet to be updated for Windows 7 – particularly for Windows 7′s best new UI feature, [...]
Windows 7 builds upon Windows Vista’s Backup and Restore feature, making it easier than ever to save copies of your current system image and media files. Several third party companies provide Windows 7-compatible applications that back up your files to remote servers on the Internet for a small monthly fee. While Windows 7 Backup is [...]
The verdict is in on Windows 7…and it’s all good news for Microsoft. After taking a beating when it released the buggy Microsoft Vista, the software giant has made giant strides one year after 7′s release. Web analytics firm NetApplications says that Windows 7 installations have (slightly) eclipsed Windows Vista. Since we can assume that [...]
If you liked the Search feature in Windows Vista, chances are you hate it in Windows 7. Windows Vista had a decent search interface that supported searching by date, name, tag, and author easily. You can get some of these options from the Explorer Search box when you search in one of your Libraries folders [...]
Many Internet users these days are signing up at sites like Dreamhost, HostGator, and similar companies for Web hosting accounts for their blogs. These Web hosts usually provide access to user accounts in two ways: through a graphical user interface (or Control Panel), and through a Unix command-line shell account. It used to be that [...]
I’ll be honest: I hardly use Internet Explorer. Google Chrome is my current browser of choice. When that fails me, Firefox is my backup. The main reason I use Chrome is speed: the browser runs lickety-split on Windows 7 when the network is running smoothly, with minimal latency in page load. By contrast, IE has [...]
The manual install for the Evo 4G upgrade to Froyo (Android 2.2) has just been released. Now you can wait till tuesday to get your OTA version and not have to go through the steps below, or you can get your update 4 days early! I went through the update without any error and I [...]
Once upon a time, I believed that the Windows Startup folder (Start -> All Programs -> Startup) showed me every program that the system executed upon boot. Oh, to be young and ignorant….
As Netflix has expanded its online offerings, I’ve found myself watching more programs and movies online, and using their DVD ordering service less. I’m not the only one: according to Forbes, the Netflix on demand service has…
One feature of Unix windowing systems that I cherish is the virtual desktop, which allows you to create multiple desktop work spaces each containing its own set of windows.
So, full disclaimer – it’s no secret that I am an HTC Evo owner and I love my phone. I have been amazed, shocked, appalled etc to see Apple botch what was supposed to be an easy win: the launch of the Iphone 4. The fact that Consumer reports are now unable to endorse the [...]
The good folks at Uniblue have seen fit to give me some (5) free licenses to their new software Registry Booster 2010.
Microsoft have some good artists earning their keep. The new box art for Office 2010 is available on Amazon and they look very cool…
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