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« Previous EntriesWhy does Software Piracy hurt FOSS ?
Monday, October 27th, 2008jason stirk tweeted about an interesting article about the interaction and semantics, I suppose, of Usage and Piracy of Software, and it’s effect on Open Source Software.
The point to draw from it is that software piracy, while not giving cash to the software company, still provides support for them. The example used in the [...]
How to Change the Windows Start Button (Win XP)
Friday, October 17th, 2008Windows XP is one of the best operating systems. It is extremely customizable (even if it is not intended to be), compatible with nearly everything, and is quite stable. For example, did you know you can change the text in the windows start button ?. It will really remind you how much of a [...]
5 Applications to help reformat Windows
Monday, September 8th, 2008Every so often you have to reinstall XP. it may be exciting the first time, but after that you want to make it as painless as possible. Download Squad has 5 usefull applications for making a Windows reinstall easier.
DriverMax. Running DriverMax before the format lets you back up all the drivers on a [...]
Free Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows from Microsoft
Monday, September 1st, 2008I’ve just been sent a link to a useful utility called Desktops, developed and supported by the Sysinternals team at Microsoft
Desktops (v1.0) is a Virtual Desktop Manager that lets you create up to four different desktop screens for arranging all those open applications in a more logical and productive manner.
For instance, you could put all [...]
How to use the Windows inbuilt Application Launcher
Thursday, August 28th, 2008When was the last time you actually used Internet Explorer as the default browser on one of your Windows computers ? Why bother? Well, instead of installing a program launcher like Launchy you may just want to use the features Windows has already given you to work with.
One of the most usefull feature of Internet [...]
Useability: Linux / Unix v Closed Software
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
Portable On-Screen Keyboard
Thursday, July 31st, 2008On-Screen Keyboard Portable is a handy way to bring your settings for the Windows’ built-in On-Screen Keyboard with you from PC to PC. It will remember your hover preferences and other options and provides an easy way to launch it right from the PortableApps.com Menu. For earlier operating systems that lack a built-in on-screen keyboard [...]
Find all your drivers with Double Driver. ~ Ask The Admin
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008If you reformat / reinstall your windows operating system, one of the chores is looking for and downloading drivers….
So what if you had a copy of all your drivers on a USB stick ?
Run Double Driver and copy your drivers off your machine to a USB stick and then restore them right back into your [...]
Work with Office safe modes - Outlook - Microsoft Office Online
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008If you are having problems with a Microsoft Office program, you may be able to use User-Initiated Safe mode to make it possible to run the program. Some situations in which this can be helpful include:
You need to view a file and the Microsoft Office program that you are using is crashing before you can [...]
Remove Hidden Data tool for Office 2003 and Office XP
Monday, July 14th, 2008MS Word documents contain hidden meta data that contain information about
the author of the document. It can also contain additional information
like comments and remarks, previous authors or revisions. While that is
normally not a problem for the author because most recipients do not
care or know that those information are available it can become a
problem in some [...]