Oct 28, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, software, updates, Vista, Windows Live, Windows7
Previously: The Good And The Bad In Windows Live Essentials 2011 If you have Windows 7 or Vista, you might have seen the Windows Update icon down by the clock this week, alerting you to available updates. Opening Windows Update reveals an “Important Update” ready to...
Oct 27, 2010 | mail, Microsoft, photos, software, video, Vista, web_services, Windows Live, Windows7
The good news is that Microsoft has released Windows Live Essentials 2011, an updated collection of free programs that are well designed and useful additions to Vista and Windows 7. The bad news is that you almost certainly don’t want all of them, and Microsoft has...
Oct 24, 2010 | business, software, Windows7
Here’s an unexpected surprise for small law offices running Timeslips. Sage Software has learned the revenue-generating lesson taught by Intuit (Quickbooks), Lexis/Nexis (Time Matters), and many others: there’s money to be made in forcing people to buy upgrades,...
Oct 11, 2010 | business, hardware, HP, printers, software, spam
Previously: Annoying Checkboxes (Microsoft Office) Ban The Check (Java, iTunes) This week’s installment of Annoying Checkboxes comes to us courtesy of HP, always a reliable source of installation routines that take too long and bloat your system with too much crud....
Oct 7, 2010 | Adobe, Office, Outlook, software, updates
Adobe will release Acrobat 10 within the next few weeks. There are some good reasons to wait for it if you need Acrobat for a new computer. With luck it will cure a longstanding problem with Acrobat 9 and Microsoft Office 2010 – one of those weird things that...
Sep 27, 2010 | security, software
I occasionally say critical things about Norton security products. I guess that’s because I occasionally run into computers that seem happier when I remove the Norton security products. In fact, now that I come to think about it, every computer seems happier when I...
