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Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category

April 26th, 2007

Test your router to see if supports all of Vista’s networking features

 This is more of a tip for those of us who work at home so we manage our own networks and routers and were brave enough to leap to Vista already.
Many of you have read that the whole TCP/IP and networking stack for Vista was re-written from the ground up and because of this there […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

April 26th, 2007

Diana always seems to have the tips you need–read them!

 Diana Huggins who contributes to Lockgnome’s Windows Fanatics blog always seems to have those tips and how tos that people need.  Whether it’s watermarks in Word or new lines in Excel cells, Diana has posted them.
Sure, you might think they are simple, if you’ve already spent time trying to figure out how to do it […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

April 25th, 2007

EverNote 2.0 and Evernote Outlook Extension Beta Released

I’ve been testing EverNote 2 beta for some time now, just a little while ago (last week I think), I got a ping that EverNote 2 was final and I should download the new version (actually throughout the beta period I received notices to update, which I very much appreciated).  Here a portion of the […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

April 14th, 2007

Microsoft releases patch for Outlook 2007, speed boost promised

We’ve been complaining, we’ve been trying to do what we can to improve things (including disabling most fun plugins), but Outlook 2007 has been dogged with performance problems since it debuted (actually in complaints started in beta).  Microsoft has finally released a patch for Outlook 2007 that is supposed improve the performance issues:
Microsoft indicated that […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

April 13th, 2007

Get these system repair tools now, before you need them

My computer crash/panic problems are well documented here.  Sure sometimes it’s been my fault, sometimes not.  Regardless of the cause, there are tools out there to help you out.  Lifehacker’s list is great and believe me, I’m downloading most of the Windows tools (the ones that I don’t already have) asap:
Which one of these tools […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

April 13th, 2007

TweakVI looks cool, is it worth subscribing?

Slowly but surely more tools to tweak Vista are coming out.  For those of us who just aren’t happy until we know we can tweak and tune our whole desktop experience, this is great.  Today I came across TweakVI.  Here’s the description from Lifehacker:
The software provides a wealth of tools for messing with Vista’s guts, […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

April 12th, 2007

Cool Vista Sidebar Gadgets

I love this intro into Alpha Geeks’ Vista gadget article:
Granted, a few Sidebar Gadgets offer little more than eye candy designed to wow consumers at Best Buy. But if you know where to look, you can stock your Sidebar with some genuinely useful tools. Let’s take a look at the cream of the crop.
Source: Alpha […]

By Tris Hussey -- 7 comments

April 6th, 2007

More speed tweaks for Vista

Yep, I’ve covered this before and I’m covering it again.  Why?  Well because I find it a good idea to compare tweaks and see when the same ones keep coming up.  If the tweaks are good, you’ll see them a lot, if not … you won’t.  Extreme Tech had some tweak-er-ific fun lately…
Unlike previous Microsoft […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

March 30th, 2007

Make snoopers guess how to login on Vista

If you go to a lot of conferences you’ll notice that often people leave their machines at their seats when they go for lunch, etc.  At one conference I went to last year someone reminded us all that, even if your machine isn’t stolen, leaving it open like that might not be a good idea.
I […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

March 28th, 2007

ClearContext updates their Vista widget and it is now a powerful GTD tool

You know I love ClearContext for Outlook.  The colour coding, the prioritization, the ability to just file messages with a click, and filing sent messages with a topic, all these things let me really manage my e-mail.  A while ago Brad told me about the Vista gadget for CC and Outlook 2007.  I’ve been trying […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments