Today’s look at Windows 7 is about Libraries. If you’ve seen Windows Home Server, then you have an idea of what Libraries are. In Windows Home Server, the system takes all of your hard disks (aside from the “System” disk) and incorporates them into one giant storage. You don’t have […]
Patrick Dickey
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The taskbar and start menu in Windows 7 are some of the most talked about and hated features in the Operating System. People have complained about the fact that Microsoft did away with the Quick Launch and the old style for the taskbar. Some have even gone so far as […]
Over the next couple of months (between now and October 22, 2009) I plan on posting about the many features of Windows 7. Quite a few of them have been discussed (and in some cases they’ve been unfairly treated), but I’ll give you another angle to look at them. I […]
Over the next couple of months (between now and October 22, 2009) I plan on posting about the many features of Windows 7. Quite a few of them have been discussed (and in some cases they’ve been unfairly treated), but I’ll give you another angle to look at them. I […]
Microsoft announced publicly today that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have reached their RTM stage today. The official build number for Windows 7 is 6000.16385. So, what does this mean? If you’re a tech beta tester (Microsoft’s internal beta testers), it means the end of an era of […]
Just an update to say that I’m still looking at webhosts for my blog. I’m debating between BlueHost and JustHost, although I’m open to anyone that will allow me to import my blogger (or wordpress) blog, and allow me to use my affiliation links. The other issue that I have […]
Over the next three months or so, I’m going to be migrating my blog to two other sites as well as this one. The first one is at http://wordpress.com and is just a placeholder, so I can import to my permanent home. The other one will be a WordPress host, […]
Digital IDs for Secure Email from Actalis This is an update to an earlier post I did about the paperless office. It took a while, but I finally got the information from Verisign about their Digital ID’s for e-mail. And this is the page that you’ll go to in order […]
RedHat released their latest version of the Fedora Project’s Linux distro recently. Release 11 comes in the typical Gnome desktop format and a KDE format for those who prefer it. I like both Gnome and KDE, although I typically use KDE because it can be configured to look more like […]
I’ve been reading a lot of information on Productivity501 including the articles that I’ve posted about previously. One of the ways that I’m reorganizing is that I’m using a desktop application to combine my e-mail, newsreader, RSS reader, notes and tasks in one. It’s not a replacement for my Franklin […]