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“I’m an iPad. And I’m a Courier.”">I’m an iPad. And I’m a Courier.”

March 8, 2010

Ah yes, the Apple vs Microsoft rivalry is heat­ing up again after this weekend’s ‘leak’ (stra­tegic release?) to Engad­get of all sorts of inter­est­ing Cour­ier tid­bits. But what wasn’t said? Are they really aim­ing at the same audi­ence? Why did Microsoft name it after a font? …more

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Aftermath of a Windows 7 install

March 1, 2010

Well I’ve done it again. My desktop was run­ning Win­dows 7 Release Can­did­ate (7100) and on March 1st, was set to turn into an uber-annoyance machine unless I installed a full retail ver­sion of Win7. So I took the plunge… …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future […]

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Upgrading from Windows 7 RC to Retail — easily!

February 28, 2010
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Well, being the cut­ting edge kinda guy that I am, I had the Win­dows 7 release can­did­ate (RC) on my sys­tem from the first day it was released. Of course, that means that I was enjoy­ing all the Win­dows 7 good­ness on my sys­tem, with the know­ledge that I’d even­tu­ally have to upgrade to the […]

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How to easily edit home video with free software from Microsoft

February 26, 2010
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Back in the day I used to be a news video­tape editor. This was before cam­eras were digital — think back to the days of VCRs, Beta and VHS. Yep, that was the media of the day to record music and video. That was called Ana­log.
The reason I bring that up is because edit­ing on […]

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This is the week that was

December 12, 2009

Tab­let rum­blings, a new Google Phone, and Pri­vacy. …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

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How to add a network activity monitor to Windows 7

November 25, 2009
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I like Win­dows 7. But there’s one thing that I noticed miss­ing right off the top, a net­work activ­ity mon­itor in the Taskbar.
Sure, you could ad a gadget/widget thingie to the desktop, but when you’re work­ing on some­thing, odds are you’re at full-screen resoulu­tion and the mon­itor is behind whatever y ou’re work­ing on.
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