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"Upgrading" from Windows XP to Windows 7 in 5 Steps
2009-09-02 19:02:00 You may have heard that there?s no direct upgrade path from Windows XP to Windows 7 . That?s true. You can only upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7. For Windows XP users, that means one thing: it’s time for a fresh install. Don’t be afraid - despite what you may have heard, it’s not ... More About: Microsoft , Windows Xp , Steps
Hack: Enable DreamScene in Windows 7
2009-09-02 19:00:00 DreamScene was a feature in Windows Vista Ultimate which allowed you to set a video as your desktop wallpaper. The feature, however, has been removed from the upcoming OS Windows 7 in favor of the Desktop Slideshow auto rotator. But don?t be dismayed ? there is, in fact, a hack that allows you to ... More About: Microsoft , Hack , Dreamscene
Want to Make Office Better? Here?s How
2009-08-10 18:58:00 Two Microsoft employees, Steve Zaske and Luke Foust, have launched a website called Make Office Better which encourages visitors to (constructively) share their ideas for how Microsoft Office can improve. Here, site visitors can post their own ideas and review the ideas shared by others. Similar to how Digg.com lets you vote up stories you like, ...
byTAGG: An RSS Reader/Alerter for Blogs and Twitter
2009-07-17 21:38:00 I just came across a new RSS reader desktop application called byTAGG. It?s a little different than the RSS programs that you may be familiar with because it lets you subscribe to other things besides feeds. Not only that, but it lets you filter your subscriptions by keywords, too. When you go to add a ... More About: Reader , Blogs , Twitter
Growl for Windows
2009-07-17 21:29:00 If you know any Mac users (or are one yourself), then you?re probably familiar with the notification program called Growl. Simply put, this application lets you know when things happen on your computer whether that?s a file that finished downloading, a friend that shows up online, or a new email arriving. Growl-enabled applications can ... More About: Windows
Firefox + Windows 7 = Winfox
2009-07-17 21:27:00 If you?re running the Firefox web browser on Windows 7, then you have to check out Winfox. Winfox is a software program that lets Firefox users take advantage of the new taskbar features in Windows 7 like jump lists and the ability to see each open browser page as a thumbnail preview. Once installed, click on ...
Pin Stacks to the Windows 7 Taskbar
2009-07-17 21:19:00 Pinning applications to your Windows 7 taskbar is great for making your most frequently used programs accessible and easy to launch. But what if you want to pin a folder containing applications, executables, or, heck, even files? By default, when you drag and drop a folder onto 7’s taskbar, it gets ?pinned? to Windows ... More About: Microsoft , Stacks , Windows 7
How To Make a Portable Version of Windows 7
2009-07-17 21:16:00 I just came across the coolest tip over on the forums at thewindowsclub.com and I had to share it. I definitely can?t take credit for this how-to ? it was posted by forum member tweakwindows on June 30th. It?s basically a tutorial for setting up a portable installation of the Windows 7 OS that ... More About: Microsoft , Portable , Make , Windows 7
Bing Downloader Lets You Snag Bing?s Images for Wallpaper
2009-07-17 21:13:00 In the past, I?ve shared several tips and tricks you can use to grab the background from the Bing .com search engine?s homepage for use as your desktop wallpaper. These included step-by-step instructions for locating the image?s URL as well as how to access an online repository hosted in SkyDrive where Bing images are stored. ... More About: Microsoft , Wallpaper , Images
BingTweets
2009-07-15 15:07:00 Recently, the Bing Search team announced a new service that?s a mashup of the Bing search engine and Twitter : BingTweets. Through a partnership with Federated Media and Twitter, the site integrates real-time search results from the micro-blogging service with the traditional results from the Bing ?decision? engine. When you go to BingTweets, you?ll see two ... More About: Microsoft
Is Faster Better? Or is it Just Faster?
2009-06-26 17:57:00 After last night?s news about Michael Jackson?s passing, everyone is once again praising the speed of the internet, blogs, and Twitter for trumping traditional media in delivering the news. Gossip site TMZ broke the news and it swirled around Twitter for hours before CNN would even confirm the story themselves. But was this another example ... More About: Personal
Coming Soon to Your iPhone: Social Ads with Search Built In
2009-06-03 15:55:00 Mobile advertising company AdMob is announcing today their latest innovation in advertising technology designed specifically for the iPhone. Starting in July, advertisers will be able to create new ad units that offer integrated social networking features, built in search, and more dynamic content which can be viewed without having to leave the ad unit. Today, AdMob ... More About: Social , Iphone , Tech , Search
Why I Didn?t Get to See FriendFeed?s Redesign
2009-04-06 17:37:00 Last week, while in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo, I was invited to go check out the new version of Friend Feed . Not being from the area, and to be honest, not having time to figure out how far away the office was from the Expo, I didn?t even pull up the address for ... More About: Redesign
Show Off Your FriendFeed Subscribers with a New Widget
2009-03-23 19:05:00 Alan Cheslow, a Friend Feed fanatic whose entire personal web site is built around the service, has just created a new widget which FriendFeed fans are definitely going to love. Unlike the official FriendFeed widgets that show off your stats or your feed, this new widget shows off your friends instead. The FFavatars widget is sort ... More About: Widget , Show
Why Facebook is Failing Me
2009-02-23 20:52:00 Don?t get me wrong, I love Facebook as much as the next guy, but lately I can?t help but feel like it?s not living up to my needs. The problem? I want to use Facebook both professionally and personally. I want my one Facebook account to serve both my ?real life? friends and those ... More About: Personal
Twitter Goes Hollywood
2009-01-30 20:46:00 Have you heard the news? Celebrities are adopting Twitter right and left these days. And no, I?m not talking about Britney, a Twitter account managed and maintained by a team of experts - I mean real, honest-to-goodness stars maintaining and updating Twitter on their very own. Recently, the internet-savvy Ashton Kutcher introduced wife Demi ... More About: Hollywood
It?s a Windows 7 Love Fest
2009-01-22 20:30:00 On the fence as to whether or not you should install Windows 7? If you?re hesitating, let me help you get up on this here bandwagon. I love Windows 7 , yes it?s true, but remember that I was someone who didn?t entirely hate Vista ? it had its quirks, mind you - but nothing ... More About: Microsoft , Love , Fest
A Retweet Mapping Tool Emerges
2009-01-02 22:14:00 I just stumbled upon a new tool that maps out the re-tweets occurring on Twitter . It?s called, simply, the ReTweet Mapper. (Actually, I didn?t Stumble Upon it, I found it on FriendFeed, of course.) The ReTweet Mapper is a tool created by Dan Zarrella, who calls himself a social and viral marketing scientist. He describes ... More About: Tool , Mapping
What the Heck is Going On with Facebook email?
2008-12-23 17:08:00 I just tried sending an email on the Facebook site and I got a message in red saying that it could not be sent. Thinking it must have been some kind of fluke, I exited the page and returned to my Inbox to try again. This time the email went through, but displayed the following ... More About: Email
How To Fix The New Google Reader
2008-12-05 21:43:00 As you?ve probably heard by now, Google Reader was updated yesterday with a completely new UI. After the initial shock (change is scary) and once I realized that all the features were still there (I thought they had been removed, but they were just hidden), I was able to calmly assess the changes and ... More About: Google Reader
OMG! Gmail Just Got Themes
2008-11-19 22:10:00 I can?t believe how awesome this is: UPDATE: THE POST IS BACK For some reason, Google deleted the post. It read: Posted by Annie Chen, Gmail engineer Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go ... More About: Themes
Am I A Google Reader Over-Sharer? Are You?
2008-11-19 21:22:00 I?ve been taking a closer look at my Google Reader feeds lately, and, as always, I?m trying to stem the tide so the signal can rise above the noise. I?ve done a little spring cleaning, which for me doesn?t mean unsubscribing ? I?m always hesitant to do that ? but instead, I?ve been re-categorizing. Is ... More About: Productivity , Google Reader
Windows 7 Installation Day Notes
2008-11-18 16:29:00 I got my hands on Windows 7 at last, fresh off one of the PDC hard drives. I haven?t even used it for a whole day yet, so I can?t tell you much more than what you already know just now. I know there are a lot of things to like about this OS, and ... More About: Microsoft , Notes , Windows 7
How Did I Not Know About The FriendFeed Toolbar?
2008-11-07 17:57:00 Many people have made arguments for the productive uses of Friend Feed, noting its liveblogging rooms, potential for blog fodder, community building aspects, etc. Those are all great reasons to love the site, but at the end of the day, I still see FriendFeed as a timesuck. A huge, glorious, fabulous, incredible timesuck. I?ve been spending more ... More About: Toolbar
Forget Windows 7 Features, I?ve Got The Wallpaper
2008-10-28 21:59:00 The big news of the day was Windows 7. At the PDC event out in California, we all got our first look at Windows 7 , the next OS from Microsoft . Can?t wait for 7? Well, at least you can get the wallpaper today. Just click here. More About: Wallpaper , Features
Official Windows 7 Screenshots
2008-10-28 19:07:00 Courtesy of Channel 10, my home away from home (on the web, that is): The wait is up! Today at PDC, we finally got to see a demo of the next OS from Microsoft : Windows 7. One of the biggest improvements in Windows 7 is the new taskbar, but there have also been other improvements ... More About: Screenshots , Official
Managing My Hyper-Connectivity
2008-10-20 17:08:00 Like most of you, I?d consider myself a technology addict. As Charlie recently noticed, I blog a lot yet somehow find myself immersed in social media a good bit too. Keeping up is a challenge, and I?ll admit that finding balance is a constant challenge. As I wrote today on ReadWriteWeb, technology really is ... More About: Personal , Blogging , Connectivity , Hyper
The Blogosphere is High School?
2008-10-14 00:21:00 My knee-jerk reaction to Mike Arrington?s recent post on Tech Crunch is that he has lost his mind. His post was about a blogger who accused TechCrunch of spreading the doom and gloom surrounding the financial crisis. The funny thing is that Arrington believes that because this person, some guy named Dare Obasanjo, is employed by ... More About: School , Blogosphere , High School , High
Does New Media ?Journalism? Have Standards?
2008-10-03 21:34:00 Opinion: I butted my way into a Twitter exchange today between two respected journalists, Mathew Ingram and Kara Swisher. Apparently Ms. Swisher didn?t think Mathew should have spread the tweet gossip about Steve Jobs? heart attack considering that he hadn?t fact-checked the story for accuracy. Mathew, on the other hand, disagreed: While I have nothing but ... More About: Media , Standards , Journalism , New Media
Blogorlando Wrap-Up
More articles from this author:2008-10-01 00:21:00 I had an amazing time at Blogorlando this weekend. Having never been to an ?unconference? before, I didn?t know what to expect. I thought that it would be more like roundtable discussions, but I was surprised how prepared and professional the presentations were. The sessions I attended were great. Even when I ventured out ... More About: Personal , Wrap 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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