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Apr/08

Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Filed Under Windows at 25th April 2008 1:04 by

I took the leap of faith when I saw SP1 in my update list. It wasn’t pushed out to me but I was bored and decided to check for updates and found it in my list. Being so close to … Continue reading →

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Apr/08

Windows Vista Startup Speed Tweaks

Filed Under Windows at 17th April 2008 13:43 by

I came across an ExtremeTech called Supercharge Windows Vista’s Startup Time and it talks about improving Vista boot up time. It mentions checking the msconfig, which has been around since Windows 98 as far as I know and the services … Continue reading →

10

Apr/08

Microsoft FolderShare & iTunes Doesn’t Work

Filed Under Mac, Windows at 10th April 2008 1:23 by

As mentioned in my previous post, I had set up FolderShare on my Windows desktop PC and my MacBook Pro. I did set it to sync my music directory but now have found it to break the iTunes Library. Every … Continue reading →

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Apr/08

Microsoft FolderShare

Filed Under Mac, Review, Windows at 2nd April 2008 11:05 by

I found FolderShare through a podcast and thought I’d try it out. It’s in beta at the moment and has clients for Windows and Mac OS, No Linux (again). It’s a very simple solution and could be well suited to … Continue reading →

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Feb/08

Microsoft Windows Vista Voice Recognition

Filed Under Review, Windows at 12th February 2008 13:13 by

I was uninstalling some programs when I noticed there was the voice recognition in Windows Vista. I didn’t notice it before so I decided to try it out. It was pretty slick. I’m using the built in microphone on my … Continue reading →

04

Feb/08

Microsoft ReadyBoost

Filed Under Review, Windows at 4th February 2008 21:26 by

I got a Sandisk Cruzer Micro 4GB as a Christmas present so I transfered all my files off my old Iomega Micro Mini. Tommy gave me the idea of using the old flash drive as a ReadyBoost drive when he … Continue reading →

03

Nov/07

Microsoft’s Strategy To Break Linux

Filed Under Linux, Windows at 3rd November 2007 0:23 by

After reading the post on Cnet about CEO of Mandriva’s open letter to Steve Ballmer I released something very worrying. The article mentions the difference between Linux distributions on making deals with Microsoft. I can see Microsoft is doing this … Continue reading →

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Oct/07

Seemless Connectivity

Filed Under Linux, Mac, Review, Windows at 30th October 2007 21:44 by

I was using the 802.11n protocol to transfer some files between my Alienware and my MacBook Pro and saw it would take around 35 minutes for 9.84GB. I thought this would be a good time to test how good the … Continue reading →