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Posted in Apple, Microsoft, Technology on Jul 9th, 2008
I haven’t updated in a while because there really hasn’t been much I felt like talking about, but with the iPhone 3G coming out in less than 2 days I figured I would give my unsolicited reasons why I’ll be sticking with my iPod Touch for now.
My issues aren’t so much with Apple as they [...]
Posted in Blogging, Microsoft, Technology on May 21st, 2008
I’m usually the one to give the technical help, but now I turn to everyone for my own technical help as I can’t find this answer anywhere - but I’m still looking.
I am using Firefox to access Outlook Web Access and everything works just fine. But I noticed somewhere along the line, I think with [...]
Since VMWare Fusion has worked out so well, I was finally able to get rid of the last remaining Microsoft Windows computer in our house by installing WindowsXP on our shiny 20″ iMac. We still need Windows for Quicken since the Mac version of Quicken is not even close to the Windows verion and can’t [...]
Posted in Microsoft, Personal, Technology on Feb 3rd, 2008
While at home, I’ve done a fairly successful job of not using many Microsoft technologies for my Internet experience. At work I’m locked in to all things Microsoft, at home I can use any technology I choose.
I use Gmail for my email, Google for my search engine, Adium for my IM client, Safari, Camino, or [...]
There has been something that drives me crazy about using Safari to access Outlook Web Access for Exchange email on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Whenever I reply to a message it is always a surprise where the cursor will land and I found that if I just press in one location and move [...]
Is anyone really surprised that Apple has pushed back the release date of OS X Leopard to October? Rumor sites have been saying for a while that the releases they have received were still pretty buggy and that they expected Apple to miss the “end of Spring” release date that Steve Jobs announced. [...]
Ran across this while trying to find anyone that may have the same problem. I like to have the Desktop Alert display the Subject and From when I get a new email. I lost that functionality when I got my new MacBook Pro. Thankfully Microsoft has written a support tip on [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Microsoft on Feb 14th, 2007
Dear former Microsoft UltimateTV developers,
Things used to be so good between us. I was a happy DirecTV customer using your UltimateTV DVR back when the only real competition was Tivo. I thought you had the product that would take Tivo down from number one, but you guys had other ideas. The small [...]
While heading for the gate at the Phoenix airport today I saw this AT&T Public Internet phone with a screen sitting at the dreaded Windows Blue Screen Of Death. Stop 0×7b - Inaccessible_Boot_Device. Have fun with that one.
Sorry for the crappy picture, I’ve never been able to get a good picture with the cell phone.
I spent the weekend trying to recover a friend’s lost pictures from a hard drive failure, so I had lots of time to kill while waiting. I figured I would use the time by installing a shiny new copy of Windows Vista on our trusty old Dell Dimension XPS R400 that we’ve had forever. [...]