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Download Windows Vista SP1 Pre-launch Updates

Microsoft today launched some major updates to Windows Vista, which appears to be a pre-launch update to the highly anticipated and uber-secretive Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Rumors and leaks about Vista SP1 and where you can download it...

Posted on August 8, 2007 10:19 AM

Search text in multiple files using Windows Grep

Windows Grep searches user-defined files and folders with for text or regular expressions, giving you powerful and fast search results. I use Linux all the time and the "grep" command is one of the most powerful Linux commands, so...

Posted on July 10, 2007 11:50 PM

Windows Vista USB Audio Driver Problem Fixed

Windows Vista Ultimate Edition is my latest desktop machine at work and some USB audio devices have given me nothing but problems. While most USB audio devices have installed just fine, since they use the standard Microsoft USB audio class,...

Posted on May 17, 2007 10:40 AM

Remote Desktop slow problem solved

Remote Desktop 6.0, the latest version of Microsoft Remote Desktop client, which comes pre-installed with Vista was slower than molasses when I tried connecting to some Windows 2003 servers. In particular, I was trying to manage a Windows 2003 R2...

Posted on April 19, 2007 10:41 AM

Marc hates Microsoft Vista

Marc Robins is having a hell of a time with Microsoft Windows Vista. Marc has encountered several problems -  Everything from printer drivers to Second Life not working and Internet Explorer crashing. Vista performance issues also seem to be happening...

Posted on March 6, 2007 9:11 AM

pbxnsip IP-PBX Review

pbxnsip is a Windows-based feature-rich IP-PBX which I recently tested for TMC Labs. It's going to be published in Internet Telephony Magazine, but I figured I'd give my blog readers a "sneak peek" at the review, because, well... I'm good...

Posted on February 21, 2007 5:15 PM

Netflix Gets into Movie Downloads (Finally!)

Don't know why it took so long, but Netflix is finally offering movies and TV shows via download, rather than by its DVD-by-mail service.  Guess they finally took their collective eyes off of Blockbuster and now are contending with such other online movie...

Posted on January 16, 2007 11:22 AM

Windows Is a Big Boy Now!

Hard to believe it's been 21 years since Microsoft launched Windows in 1985! Lots of blogging on this one today. It was a big deal back in 1985 with a big launch. I do think they did expect it to turn...

Posted on November 20, 2006 1:54 PM

Skype 2.5 Beta for Mac

Today, Skype has released a new version of Skype for the Mac - Skype 2.5 Beta for Mac. The previous Mac release was October 23, 2006 which was version 2.0.0.6., so this is a 0.5 (half point) release upgrade. This...

Posted on November 15, 2006 12:00 AM

MTV Gives Us the Urge

Sometimes you wonder why brands associated with one particular slice of life take so long to figure out how to extend themselves into new (but not foreign) territories. This is how I see MTV's announcment today that it will enter the online...

Posted on May 15, 2006 1:15 PM

Speakables for Windows now available

A Windows shareware version of the Speakables software application that ets users "Skype" by voice command has been released. Speakables, offers several voice control solutions for many popular applications such as iPhoto and iTunes. Ironically, they announced the release of...

Posted on May 9, 2006 3:20 PM

Dual boot Mac and Windows

Apple fans can now dual-boot into either Microsft Windows XP or the Macintosh operating system (Mac OS X). Today, Apple announced the beta release of Bootcamp, a boot-time utility that lets you create a 2nd partition to hold the Windows...

Posted on April 5, 2006 11:18 AM

Microsoft Vista; Horizon Now Stretches Further ...

Much hubbub late yesterday and today about Microsoft delaying its upcoming Vista OS, called "perhaps the biggest technology transition since the Windows operating system arrived more than 10 years ago" in today's Wall Street Journal.Seems it won't be here until...

Posted on March 22, 2006 6:13 PM

The Twain Shall Meet: First Intel-Based Mac

Today, at Macworld, Apple announced its first Intel-based Macintosh computer.A milestone! And the end of the days when Windows and Intel were inseparable and the Macintosh was in its own separate competing sphere. Knew Steve Jobs had something up his...

Posted on January 10, 2006 3:45 PM

Windows Defender

In case you hadn't heard the news, Microsoft changed the name of their anti-spyware software from Microsoft AntiSpyware to Windows Defender. Windows Defender will come included with Windows Vista.According to a Microsoft blogger which broke the news, "As part of...

Posted on November 8, 2005 3:29 PM

TiVo vs. Media Center Edition

TiVo may get all the headlines and they certainly have a rabid following, including geeks who modify their units, add additional hard drives, and perform other tweaks. But I'll tell you, I would not trade my Microsoft Windows Media...

Posted on February 11, 2005 11:47 AM

Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

Media Center Edition 2005 I was just reading about the launch of Media Center Edition 2005 and came across this link: Microsoft to tune up Media Center PC | CNET News.com As I just blogged, I want to buy...

Posted on October 12, 2004 5:52 PM

Asterisk on Windows

Some hot news I've been meaning to share - Asterisk is now available on Windows. Check it out: Digium, the leading Open Source telecommunications supplier, and N2Net, a provider of mission critical communication hosting, announce the immediate availability of AstWind,...

Posted on September 9, 2004 3:15 PM

Apple's iPod problematic install on Windows

Apple is known for having the most userfriendly experience in computing. I've always been a PC fan, even in the old 8086 and 80286 days before Windows even existed - DOS was my friend. My first experience with Apple was...

Posted on August 24, 2004 10:47 PM

Windows XP SP2 Download - If you know where to look

Microsoft's XP Service Pack2 is out, but very hard to find on Microsoft's site. They probably did this on purpose to prevent an onslaught of people downloading the service pack. They want you to use Automatic Updates to "slowly" download...

Posted on August 9, 2004 9:55 PM

Windows CE lab

I love Windows CE (use it for my car GPS), but if you think this operating system is used just in PocketPCs and Handheld PCs, you would be wrong. Here's an interesting video clip that demonstrates some cool Windows CE...

Posted on June 28, 2004 3:02 PM

MovableType Trackback on Microsoft Windows IIS gives 404 error SOLVED!

I'm running MovableType on a Windows 2000 IIS server and noticed Trackback was giving 404 errors for Trackback urls such as http://blog.tmcnet.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/16 Most MT users use Apache running on a Linux box and MT is only "unofficially" supported on Windows...

Posted on May 13, 2004 11:33 AM