In my last blog post I mentioned that Norton Live Update wasn’t working on my Windows Vista laptop and the recommended solution — uninstalling and reinstalling Norton — was unworkable. Thankfully I’m now able to report that I found a work-around for the problem, although other issues exist that I won’t bore you with on [...]
Two posts ago I talked about all of the nag screens and balloon tips that bothered me when I started Windows Vista. I’m happy to say that I was able to get rid of a lot of them.
While I still have a ways to go to get rid of some other stuff I don’t like, [...]
I’ll be traveling later this week to Los Angeles for Yanik Silver’s
Underground IV conference. It’s my only planned live event for this year
(although that could change).
Blog posts may be a bit sporadic over that time period. I usually don’t
spend enough time in my hotel room to sleep at these things, much less make
blog posts, so [...]
Ugh. I recently purchased an inexpensive laptop that’s running the basic version of Windows Vista just so I could learn more about it. I thought I’d share one thing I learned about it that I absolutely hate.
THE FRIGGIN’ NAG SCREENS! ARE YOU LISTENING, MICROSOFT? GET RID OF THEM!
Honestly; I have to click on what seems [...]
If you’re like me, you have several tabs open when you start up Firefox (or
SeaMonkey, the Mozilla replacement). It’s a great way to save time. I can
simply start up Firefox and the pages and websites I need every day to do
my work are right there.
I even do this for other tasks. For instance, I have [...]
Just a quick note: I’m guessing that Google has tweaked the spam filters for their Gmail application. If you have a Gmail account, check the spam folder; messages you were expecting may have ended up there.
This is not at all unsuspected. Some idiots have been selling some tool that claims to “put your message in [...]
Once upon a time (no, this isn’t a fairy tale) there was a company that had a great concept: create a document format that could be read on almost any computing platform. You create the document once and platform dependent software would open the documents on computers, whether it be running Windows, Unix, Mac…
And it [...]