Windows 7 Explorer features
On 2009/11/30
This is about Windows Explorer not Internet Explorer.
The new Windows Explorer in Windows 7 is one of my favorite things about Windows 7. Microsoft added some nice enhancements over the Vista version. And Vista’s Windows Explorer was quite different, and better, than Windows Explorer in XP.
The two most obvious [...]
iTunes, the nightmare before Christmas
On 2009/11/27
We were having a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat. Our guests mentioned that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in NYC had a great Tim Burton show. They remarked on his wonderful drawings and figures. I mentioned that Burton’s The Nightmare [...]
Do you use the Windows or Mac special keys?
On 2009/11/19
The Windows key is a special key that appears on a Windows keyboard. It has the Microsoft flag logo on it and may also have the word Start. A variation of it exists for the Mac keyboard. Here it is known as the Command key or the Apple key and sports a Saint [...]
Thinking about a new high end computer
On 2009/11/16
I have a client, a radiologist, who needs a new home computer. Since he uses this computer when he is on-call it must meet minimum requirements for the medical imaging software and display the images in high resolution on a large monitor so that he can properly read the images.
He sent me his [...]
1. Windows 7 Pointers & Mouse Settings for left-handed people http://sl.rhftech.com/zorzh
2. xplorer² (The best Windows Explorer alternative) — Advanced customization http://sl.rhftech.com/hlbkj
3. VMLite – VMLite XP Mode for Windows 7 is ready – http://sl.rhftech.com/vmlite
4. Google Labs – Google Apps shortlinks explained http://sl.rhftech.com/koybo
5. The [...]
This is the HP followup to one of the All-in-One scanning issues I blogged about in Hewlett Packard All-in-Ones hate operating system upgrades. The customer called HP, spent 90 minutes trying to fix it and then received this email. Their answer is wipe the computer, reinstall the operating system, the applications, the [...]
This post could be titled, “Why is Hewlett Packard installation software so awful? Redux.” My original post Why is Hewlett Packard installation software so awful? of May 31st allowed me to vent my then frustration with HP printer/scanner/fax software.
This past week my frustration with HP’s lousy software reached [...]
The NY Times’ David Pogue’s 2009 ‘Take Back the Beep‘ campaign is trying to get cell phone carriers to eliminate the lengthy messages that precede recording a voice message. My campaign is to change the way we launch applications or find files on our computers. I want you to learn to use [...]
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