All Entries Tagged With: "Windows"

The Perfect OS

I’ve written several articles where I bash a particular operating system or heap praises on another. I’ve held a fascination with operating systems, and with graphical user interfaces, since around 1995, when I was introduced first to Digital Unix, and then BSD and linux shortly thereafter. In 1996 I began my love affair with all [...]

The Problem With X

I have always had a thing for operating systems, and in particular for their respective graphical user interfaces. GUIs haven’t really been around all that long in the grand scheme of things. In the last 20 years we’ve gone from fairly basic shells on top of operating systems that for all intents and purposes were [...]

Stupid Computer Tricks: Virtual Desktops

Being a long time unix user, I am no stranger to the concept of virtual desktop, or workspaces. Amiga was the first to introduce the feature way back in the mid 80’s, and Xwindows on *nix has supported virtual desktops for as long as I can remember.
Pretty much all X window managers implement the [...]

What’s On Your Computer Chris Pirillo

It’s the season premiere of What’s On Your Computer aka. Show Me Your Desktop. I’ll continue with the akas’. Chris Pirillo aka L0ckergn0me will kick this season off.
You can’t write about Chris Pirillo without linking to a lot different sites. Chris and his wife Ponzi are the minds behind the increasingly popular technology conference Gnomedex.
Chris [...]

Turn XP into a Blazing Speed Demon

I used to rely on Norton’s Speed Disk, then, eventually Perfect Disc and Diskeeper to optimize my HDD. Defragmenting is the idea- an antiquated process of reorganizing bytes on spinning platter so that each file is grouped into contiguous locations on the disk. Many still believe that defragmenting hard disk drives on a regular basis [...]

My Quest For The Apple Part Deux

As you might have read, I’m on a quest for either a MacBook or a PC. The comments in the latest post clearly shows that the battle between Apple and Microsoft – or OS X and Windows – is very easy to spot.
Which one offers the most value? Since both the MacBooks (Pro) or generic [...]

My Quest For The Apple Part 1

As many of my twitter followers probably are aware of I’m currently working on getting my hands on a MacBook Pro or just a MacBook. I just can’t make up my mind.
I’ve been a happy Windows-user for many years. Way back when you typed Windows in DOS to start Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.
But I haven’t [...]

Who Do You Fring?

Applications for the Apple iPhone aren’t taking up the internet bandwidth and space. Actually only one company have developed an VoIP (Voice over IP) application, the Israelian company fring.
If you haven’t heard about fring, then perhaps you know one of the people behind it – Avi Schechter. He was one of the founder of the [...]

XBMC Coming On OS X And Linux. Plus, I Need Advice With New PC Spec

I’m a big fan of XMBC, the great open source media center for Xboxs. But, I stopped using it over the last 12 months because my needs had out-stripped the capabilities of the Xbox, which can’t support native HD content. Because of this, I now use PCs running Windows Vista Media Center [...]

Apple iPhone Has A Greater Share Of The Smartphone Market Than Windows Mobile

I’ve been paying a lot of interest to news about smartphones over the last couple of months, as I’m coming up to my annual upgrade. Currently I’m packing two phones, a Nokia N95 for personal use and a HTC S620 for work, and I can’t work out which platform, Symbian or Windows Mobile, I [...]

WebGuide Addon Available For Windows Home Server

I’ve had my Windows Home Server for around a month now, and although I’ve been very impressed with it, there are two areas where it could be better.
The first is that it can’t act as a Media Center to record TV, so that Media Extenders can be connected to it. I’m in the process [...]

My Movies 2 – Watch DVDs In Windows Media Center

Vista Media Center doesn’t allow you to watch DVDs on your hard drive. There is a way to hack the registry so that a DVD Library is added to Vista Media Center, but only a list of movies is displayed with no thumbnails or data like genres, movie ratings, actor bios etc.
I discovered My [...]

The NeXT Big Thing

If you’re reading this, chances are that you are on a workstation that is running some flavor of the Windows operating system. Some of you may be running Linux or, like the author, might be a Mac user, but it’s still a Windows world as far as most homes and businesses go. Windows has come [...]

Windows Home Server Review

Over the last 2 years I have amassed a quite substantial media library as I have ripped all my CDs and DVDs. The problem I have in sharing this media collection around my home is that no single machine within my home has enough storage. An even bigger problem I faced was creating [...]

Leaving iTunes Behind – Moving To MediaMonkey And Lossless Music

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I love it when I read a post that makes me decide to do something totally differently. CyberNetNews are doing a series of daily giveaways of useful software, and yesterday they were giving away three copies of MediaMonkey Gold the reknowned music player.

I don’t know [...]

Building A Home Server Part II

I was bored yesterday, so I spent some time buying components for my Home Server. I set myself a budget of £250 for the system and I ended up spending just over £130 which I’m very happy with. Here are the components I purchased:

Building a Home Server Part I

I’ve decided to build a proper home server as at the moment my files are scattered between different machines (pics of my home setup as requested below) and I want to centralise them, as well as creating a proper remote access solution. I’m not sure yet if Windows Home Server is the right OS yet, [...]

Five Ways To Speed Up Outlook 2007

I have been using Outlook 2007 since beta 2. Feature wise it’s richest than its predecessors, and offers some new functionality such as the To-Do Bar, Instant Search, enhanced junk filtering and attachment previewing.
That said, Outlook 2007 can be sometimes annoyingly sluggish, specially when starting up. Today, I would like to provide you with a [...]

10 Simple Ways To Speed Up Windows Vista

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Windows Vista is a rather heavy operating system with many neat features, but unfortunately they all come at a price. Right out of the box it requires a pretty hefty system to run (arguably).
Before you run out and buy a new computer just so [...]

PCMark Vantage For Vista Coming Soon

I’m not a PC gamer, but I do like to know how fast my computers are. A good test of how fast a PC is has always been the various PCMark tests, but unfortunately these haven’t worked with Windows Vista.
This will be fixed shortly with the launch of PCMark Vantage, a new set of [...]