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Area Man Gives Glowing Review for His Windows Vista to XP Upgrade Experience

December 14, 2007

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From the blog Coding Sanity (whose subtitle is “.NET, pragmatism and geek cachet”) comes the review titled Review: Windows XP…

I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I will be doing the [...]

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Windows Startup Screens and Sounds, from 1.0 to Vista

October 21, 2007

Here’s a YouTube video that shows all the startup screens and sounds for Windows, from version 1.0 up to the present. If they ever make a geek version of Koyanisqatsi or Baraka, they should include something like this:
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Vista: Stunning. Entertaining. Having a Little Problem with “Dependable”.

September 18, 2007

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Strictly speaking, there’s a good chance that the blue screen of death in the photo above is a driver-related problem. Even with the laptop with Vista Ultimate (pre-installed to avoid installation and driver issues) that Microsoft gave to me, I’ve had driver-related problems. However, as [...]

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“Hi, I’m a Mac…”

September 6, 2007

…and here are my fellow platforms and operating systems. The sample below shows just a few; click the image below to see the full set, which concludes with Windows Vista. Possibly not safe for work — male bottomlessness and female toplessness lurk within!
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The Jing Project: Screen captures, Screencasts and Sharing

July 20, 2007

My job as Tucows’ Tech Evangelist often requires me to take screenshots and screencasts. Although Mac OS X (Tiger) is my primary laptop OS and Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn) is my primary desktop OS, I shoot and edit screencasts on Windows because Camtasia is the one screen recording app that does the job for me.
TechSmith, the [...]

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