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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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

WINDOWS VISTA BASICS

Windows Vista is here. After using it for two months and studying hard, here are some of the conclusions I’ve reached. Windows Vista is a wonderful operating system. There…

QUICKBOOKS AND VISTA

Here’s the latest word from Intuit about running Quickbooks under Vista, and it’s not pretty. Quickbooks 2007 will run correctly, or so they say. There’s no…

ONECARE UPDATES

Version 1.5 of Windows Live OneCare began to be rolled out a couple of days ago. If you are currently using OneCare, you will be updated automatically. When the process goes…