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Practicing What I Preach: What It’s Like To Use Microsoft Web Apps
I haven’t used the desktop versions of Outlook or Word in six months. I did it for you. I’ve been telling you about how swell it is to store your files in OneDrive and use Microsoft’s web apps instead of the desktop versions of Word and Excel and I was pretty sure...
SECURITY UPDATE 2009
Several people have asked me about the most recent variations on old, old themes. Email warnings about dangerous messages, like the one on the right. Newspaper articles about the...
WINDOWS MOBILE PHONES
Windows Mobile phones are seldom considered by people shopping for cell phones. All the attention goes to Blackberrys and iPhones and the latest sexy proprietary devices with...
CHANGE HAS COME TO WHITEHOUSE.GOV
The first blog entry on the beautiful new White House web site: “Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 12:01 pm “Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov “Welcome to the new WhiteHouse.gov....
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Full transcript as prepared for delivery of President Barack Obama's inaugural remarks on Jan. 20, 2009, at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. My fellow citizens: I...
READING THE NEWSPAPER
The newspaper business is quickly collapsing in waves of bankruptcies and layoffs and rapidly declining readership and ads. Our local paper, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, just...
THE TIES THAT BIND (AND BREAK)
This doesn’t affect you directly but it’s an interesting glimpse at How Things Work. The vast bulk of international voice and Internet traffic travels through underwater cables....
WORD 2007 & CAPITALIZATION
It’s a little thing but it makes me cranky. I type a lot of email addresses and login names in Word documents and Outlook email messages. Whenever I type a common first name...
INSIDE WINDOWS 7
Windows Vista brought deep changes to security and drivers, causing some pain during the transition from Windows XP. Windows 7 doesn't undo any of those changes; it is focused on...
WINDOWS 7 – THE JOURNEY BEGINS
Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista. The new version of Windows went into worldwide beta testing this weekend and you will probably be buying it on your new computers by...
WORKING ON OUTLOOK ATTACHMENTS
If you open an email attachment from Outlook and intend to work on it - edit a Word document or Excel spreadsheet, for example - the first thing you should do is click on "Save...
WINDOWS LIVE SYNC – GOOD PROGRAM, POOR UPGRADE
Windows Live Sync replaced Foldershare last month. It's a good program but the upgrade experience for Foldershare users is pretty miserable. Windows Live Sync and Foldershare are...
SBS 2008 – REMOTE ACCESS TO FILES
Outlook Web Access can be used to view or open any file in a shared folder on the servers in an office run by Small Business Server 2008. Small Business Server 2008 improves many...
MALICIOUS SOFTWARE REMOVAL TOOL
Microsoft's recent announcement that it will distribute free antivirus software was unexpected but in some ways it's just an expansion of efforts by Microsoft that have been...
MICROSOFT ENDS 2008 WITH A CRASH
A heartwarming story for the end of 2008! On December 31 every owner of a 30Gb Microsoft Zune woke up to a crashed device that couldn't be started. (The Zune is Microsoft's...
FALLOUT 3
Sometimes it seems impossible to find a a couple of hours that can be spent away from the real world. People over 25 might find time for a good book but computer gaming belongs...