Windows virtual desktops: harder than it looks
Sunday, January 18th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments OffI have been living with my virtual desktops for a little more than week or so, at least consistently, and I have found that my initial infatuation with DeskSpace was blinded by lust. After running it for around 36 hours ...
Virtual desktops for Windows
Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments OffEver since I started playing around with Ubuntu and was introduced to the awesomeness that is Beryl, I became addicted to having virtual desktops. I love the fact that I can do that on my Mac lappy and have multiple ...
New Microsoft ads beat the Mac ads: because they are nicer….
Friday, September 12th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Marketing | Comments OffThe two new Microsoft ads are engaging because of the strangely familiar interaction between Gates and Seinfeld, which really does read like an old Seinfeld episode (no real surprise there). They are also ambiguous enough to be entertaining rather than ...
When XP goes bad….
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Blatherings | 3 Comments »This last Wednesday night was fairly unremarkable - just another night really, until about 10 pm when all hell broke loose on my desktop here at home. For a day or so my AV had been telling me it updated ...
Power saving in Vista: follow-up
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Blatherings, Geeking Out | Comments OffAs a next step I set up my machine to run for an hour before entering sleep mode then to hibernate while in Vista - and it did make a decent difference. While asleep, the computer was only drawing between ...
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