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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 [...]
Windows Software Licence Keys and Serial Numbers
Monday, September 1st, 2008If you want to reinstall your operating system, you need to have the licenses an serial numbers at hand for all the software programs that you have purchased and registered. Obviously, this includes the Windows product key but also other serial numbers for applications like Nero, Office, VMWare and pretty much every other application.
If you [...]
Disk Copy Software PC Network Clone
Monday, September 1st, 2008When you get a new hard disk or new computer you generally want to copy the contents of an old one to the new one to continue working with all of your files, operating system and settings. PC Network Clone is disk copy software that can copy the contents of a hard drive to one [...]
How to manage your tabs in FireFox
Friday, August 29th, 2008Firefox usually has one row of tabs for its tabbed browsing feature. Tabs get reduced in size if the user opens additional websites but that stops eventually and additional tabs are not displayed anymore. The tab bar has to be scrolled to access those websites. Alternatively the icon at the end can be clicked on [...]
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 [...]
14 Ways Starbucks Has Tried to Revitalize its Brand
Thursday, August 7th, 2008What I Learned Today - 14 Ways Starbucks Has Tried to Revitalize its Brand
We’re not this young, beloved, entrepreneurial enterprise anymore… We have to do business in a different way
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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 [...]
Make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
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 [...]