Microsoft
How to Get Free Microsoft Software
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Whether you love them or hate them, Microsoft is here to stay. If you ask me, I’d have to say I’m more on the love side. They do some pretty amazing things… especially giving away software to students and teachers! Head [...]
Special Geek Savings on Sunbelt VIPRE AntiVirus and AntiSpyware
Sunbelt’s VIPRE program has been receiving excellent press coverage. PC Magazine says that “VIPRE PC Rescue can indeed clean up in a situation where full-scale security software may not be able to install. Keep it in mind if you run into a system so gummed-up with Malware that ordinary solutions won’t work.” Sunbelt Software is [...]
Social Views of Email on the Desktop
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Incoming information via RSS feeds can be completely overwhelming. More people every day are using social networks and other forms of communication. Microsoft developers are working hard to make this much easier on all of us. The team has come up [...]
Future of the Data Center
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed The Microsoft Data Center Futures team built a prototype containing 100 dual-core Atom processors. They believe that data centers in the future will include many more low-power processors. This prototype is the first step in demonstrating their potential cost savings. This [...]
Recognizing Characters Written in the Air
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Write with Air is being touted as a way to input characters into devices (such as the Xbox) equipped with a low-cost Webcam but no keyboard or mouse. Simply face the camera and write the intended letter or word in the [...]
SecondLight: Bringing the UI into the Real World
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed SecondLight is a new surface-computing technology that can project images and detect gestures in mid-air above the display, in addition to supporting multitouch interactions on the surface. The SecondLight technology adds another dimension to Surface. It allows users to slide “magic [...]
Real-Time Stitching of Mobile Videos
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed It seems like everyone has a cell phone these days. And most phones now have a camera built-in, capable of taking still shots and video clips. Mobile phones great for capturing and sharing video content. Microsoft wants to enable multiple mobile [...]
How to Keep Your Game Hands Cool: Nyko Airflow EX
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There seems to be approximately 1 billion game controllers on the market these days. Most of them happen to run only on Windows. Ugh! I need one that works on a Mac, as well. I think I finally found the perfect [...]
How to Piss off a Nerd
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I finally had enough of the Windows PC in my room. I can’t take it anymore. This is just too much for me to handle. The haunted USB connect / disconnect problem has been officially fixed. Too bad I forgot I [...]
Windows 7: Problem Steps Recorder
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I never thought I’d say this again – but I’m looking forward to the next version of Windows. In playing with Windows 7, I’ve discovered features that will prove very useful. You’ll definitely fall in love with this particular feature. The [...]
Windows 7: Action Center Utility
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There are times when your operating system needs to tell you something. It may need to let you know that something needs to happen, such as updating certain components. This is usually managed in an ad-hoc manner, without a central location [...]
Windows 7: Resource Monitor Tool
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed It doesn’t matter how new your computer is, you only have a limited amount of resources. You have to keep an eye on your CPU, your memory, and your disks – you need to know what’s going on! The Resource Monitor [...]
What’s Shaking in the Windows 7 Beta: The Windows!
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I am running Windows 7 on my TouchSmart PC, as well as within a virtual machine on my Mac. I have the Aero Basic scheme going in the VM, sadly. However, even in Basic mode, I can still show you a [...]
Windows 7 Search Connectors: Twitter, YouTube, Amazon, eBay…
Thanks to the power of RSS, and the flexibility of OpenSearch, Microsoft has extended the search experience within the Windows 7 Explorer shell. I’ve been an advocate of RSS search for years (that’s what lead me to develop TagJag.com, which remains quite functional to this day). With TagJag, one can generate instant feed searches for [...]
Do You Have Network Media Storage?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed There’s something to be said for having network attached storage. If you haven’t invested in any hardware yet, you might consider HP’s new offering. It’s a bit more than the average NAS device. Not only was HP at Macworld showing off [...]
