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Archive for the ‘Vista’ Category

March 6th, 2007

Psst, a new version of ClearContext is available and a Vista gadget too

It does pay to read your feeds!  Today Brad has this great announcement:
Regular readers of the weblog may have noticed that posting has been light the last couple of months.  Work on our v3.1 release has kept us busy.  I’m pleased to finally come up for air and offer all of you early access to […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 26th, 2007

Wow you can rename multiple files in Windows! And it’s easy

You know somethings are so easy you just smack your head and say “Why didn’t I try that!”.  This tip for renaming files (it is shown in XP, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it might work in Vista too) is just so simple:

Highlight the files you want to rename. […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

February 26th, 2007

Advanced WindowsCare Professional for Free Today Only

As you know I’ve been battling with fixing a machine for Lorraine’s bosses since Friday.  Sunday I thought it was licked and well I was wrong.  Still getting Blue Screen of Death, still unstable (rebooting and shutting down randomly).  I was getting really worried.  If I couldn’t keep the machine stable, then I couldn’t even […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

February 26th, 2007

Speed up you work with keyboard shortcuts

I’ve always used lots of keyboard shortcuts and I’m kinda narked when one doesn’t exist or is inconvenient (the Control-F4 for closing windows is one that I think is a pain).  I’m surprised how often people don’t use shortcuts in their day to day work.  It really speeds up tasks (like writing) if you just […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 24th, 2007

Saturday morning humor–Time to upgrade to Rock Vista

You know, adding humor into your life is probably one of the best work pimps we can suggest.  If you can’t laugh at the silliness of work sometimes, well you better keep that bottle of Maloxx handy.
This morning, I have a cartoon from Blaugh.  Since I’m going back to fix the machines at the garage […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 21st, 2007

Find new Vista drivers on RadarSync

Upgraded to Vista and just a wee frustrated finding drivers?  Yeah, I’m with you.  I spent something like an hour looking for drivers for my built-in card reader.  RadarSync is trying to help out:
Don’t waste your time searching dozens of vendor websites every month for the driver updates you need.Just bookmark this page and come […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 20th, 2007

Microsoft releases Virtual PC 2007, and it’s still free

Last year Microsoft released Virtual PC 2004 as a free download.  At the time I didn’t see much point.  Today Microsoft announced it’s successor Virtual PC 2007 and, yes, it’s still free.  Yeah you might be wondering about Microsoft’s motives in all this.  So was Wired and this is what they had to say:
For the […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 20th, 2007

Mindsystems ThemeReader–An exciting new add-on for MindManager

 I got an e-mail from Tom Hodgers today.  Remember him?  Yeah he was one of our contest winners.  It sounds like Tom has been getting into MindMager and told me about a really cool new MM add-on called ThemeReader.  Here is how Mindsystems describes it:
Mindsystems ThemeReader™ is the latest edition to the MindManager® family of […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

February 19th, 2007

Is your Computer Ready for Daylight Savings Time?

Did you know the daylight savings time is coming a month early now?  You bet, it starts in March now, not in April.  So the big question is, is your computer ready for this change?
If you’ve made the switch to Microsoft Vista you’re OK.  Microsoft has already updated Vista for the new daylight savings time rules.  […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 16th, 2007

Updates, get your updates here…

One of the most important things you can do to keep your computer, and applications, safe and happy is to keep it updated.  Back in the day, when the Internet was young and I was doing tech support, finding updates wasn’t fun or easy.  We pretty much had to do a lot of the work […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments