I am sure this topic has been written about to death since I finally got around to doing a search and trying to get it done. There are multiple steps involved and I could not find one solid piece that discussed them in their entirety; thus the post. The objective here is to have your [...]
There has been a lot of hullabaloo about the recently discovered ‘GOD’ mode in Windows 7 and thus I figured I would help spread the knowledge. Below you will find instructions on how to enable this mode and a few screen shots of what you will end up with. Enjoy. Create a new folder on [...]
Microsoft, via the Office 2010 engineering blog, announced pricing for the upcoming Office 2010 today. Here are the details: How much will Office 2010 cost? In addition to the great momentum statistics, we are also releasing Office 2010 U.S. retail pricing today. Office 2010 will be offered in four versions, to make it easier to [...]
I recently received a new laptop with Windows 7 Professional x64 preloaded. However, the inner geek in me decided that nothing less then Windows 7 x64 Ultimate would suffice. I decided that I would get the laptop completely setup, install whatever updates were available, and eventually run the Windows Anytime Upgrade tool. For those that [...]
Windows 7 finally launched on October 22 and yours truly had the privilege of attending the launch party/event in New York. The privileged invitation came by way of an offering from Richard aka ‘The Windows Observer’ (@winobs on Twitter). It was truly a pleasure to meet Richard and see the faces that we all are [...]
Microsoft has unleashed its new free security suite as of September 29, 2009. Microsoft Security Essentials is the new free product that works on most iterations of Windows and will protect pc’s against virus’, spyware, and malware. MSE, as its commonly known, is available in both 32bit and 64bit versions from the following site: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/. [...]
If you are reading this post then you are amongst a very small community. I started this blog about 2 months ago and get about 100 unique hits per day…regularly and sometimes spikes as high as 300. Naturally this has nothing to do with Bing…but the reason it is relevant is that my analytics tool [...]
