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How To Display Shared OneDrive Folders in Windows File Explorer
I just learned about a OneDrive feature that might be a bit of a game-changer, especially for small businesses. Shared folders in OneDrive for Business can be displayed in File Explorer and browsed naturally, just like your own OneDrive files. That allows a small...
DELETING ONECARE BACKUP FILES
Windows Live OneCare makes it simple to back up your files to an external hard drive. The new version of OneCare allows backups to be updated automatically, every day or every...
MICROSOFT WINDOWS HOME SERVER BETA 2
Here's a review of a beta release of Microsoft Windows Home Server, which continues to look like a genuinely exciting advance for home computing. Here are my earlier thoughts on...
BLU-RAY & HD-DVD SECURITY BROKEN
High definition DVDs have always had two, and only two, purposes: to impose significant new barriers to your free use of the content on them by adding new layers of DRM; and to...
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
Happy Valentine's Day! Stuck for a gift? I'm sure a lot of you depend on Thinkgeek.com for your last minute holiday shopping, so you'll be relieved to know that Thinkgeek is all...
VISTA & SHADOW COPY
Windows Vista Business edition has one of those features that you might not need right away - but if you ever do need it, it will be a lifesaver.Vista Business (and Vista...
VIDEO MAY OVERWHELM INTERNET
Google is running more than 450,000 servers around the world. It's building "Project 02," which will be one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, to be housed at a data...
WINDOWS VISTA BUSINESS
Strange but true: it is not easy to purchase a new computer with Windows Vista Business installed on it. It's virtually impossible to find Vista Business on any computer sold in...
NEW IMAGE FORMAT – HD PHOTO
The .JPG format is ubiquitous - everything supports it, everything displays it. Microsoft has spent six years creating a new format intended to replace .JPG in the hearts and...
WALMART, APPLE & DRM
WalMart announced a movie download service with the obligatory noncritical media coverage, focused on how darned exciting it is that all of the major studios have signed up to...
KODAK PRINTERS
Kodak has done so many things wrong in the last ten years that it's hard to trust its judgment, but it may be redefining the printer market today and doing us all a favor.Kodak...
GOODBYE PALM OS
The venerable Palm operating system is no more. It wasn't long ago that the term "Palm" was the very definition of a handheld PDA, and the Palm operating system was inseparable...
J RIVER MEDIA CENTER 12
J River Media Center 12 is a new version of my favorite music software. Try it! A thirty-day trial is free, and the program is well worth its modest cost.Many people use iTunes...
TIMESLIPS & VISTA COMPATIBILITY
Vista compatibility will be hit or miss for the next year. Some business-critical software won't run on Windows Vista; I'll be doing what I can to help businesses learn that...
VISTA/XP COMPARISON
There's no shortage of lists of Vista features but this is a particularly good one - with a minimum of fuss, the chart in the middle compares Windows Vista to Windows XP, feature...
SMALL BUSINESS SERVER & IE7
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 includes wonderful tools for remote access - Remote Web Workplace provides access to office desktop computers, and Outlook Web Access makes...