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| In Brief: Dow in freefall, down 300 points on news ... |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 1:04 pm |
| Tags: Quicklinks, Start Jumping Out Of Windows |
| Dow in freefall, down 300 points on news that everybody’s about to be homeless and America is doomed. [MarketWatch] |
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| Busy times, we're hiring |
| Published: July 17, 2007, 6:26 pm |
| Tags: Mindscape, Windows, Business |
| I’ve been a bit quiet lately with so much going on with Mindscape and life in general. The good news is that we have recently elected to expand our team to help ensure we continue to deliver (if you are interested check out the position information here). I’ll be delivering two lunch time sessions at TechEd this year, one regarding |
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| New WPF & Silverlight Blog |
| Published: June 29, 2007, 3:51 am |
| Tags: Blogging, Windows |
| While at Remix I met up with a fellow Kiwi, Nas, who works at Infinity here in Wellington. Certainly a cool person, she is trying to help move the WPF & Silverlight community in New Zealand forward, about time I say! I’ve been a little underwhelmed with what people have done so far with WPF especially given the power it provides. We use |
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| Surfin' Safari publishes WebKit Project Goals |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Firefox, Goals, Iphone, Safari, Webkit, Windows |
| in the iPhone to Safari on Windows and even some of Nokia's phones and other devices that can browse the web. Unfortunately, as with any increasingly popular project, WebKit seems to be getting pressure from a lot of new angles to implement certain features and optimize for one use or another. Many people want WebKit to do things like support |
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| Microsoft Claims a Billion Windows Installs by End of 2008 |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 9:01 am |
| Tags: Windows |
| a billion machines running Windows within a year. 'The install base of Windows computers this coming 12 months will reach 1 billion. If you stop and just think about that, parse that for a second, by the end of our fiscal year '08, there will be more PCs running Windows in the world than there are automobiles, which is at least to me kind of a |
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| Man gets BSOD message tattooed on his arm |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 5:45 am |
| Tags: Bsod, Crrl Alt Del, Error, Mishap, Person, Skin, Tat, Tattoo, Windows |
| a battle scar for all those Windows driver installations gone terribly awry. Next up? We're betting on a Kernel Panic tat for arm number two.[Via Tumbl, thanks Laura] Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life! |
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| Ballmer says Windows installed base will top a billion by the end of 2008 |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 2:04 pm |
| Tags: Ballmer, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Steveballmer, Windows |
| that he expects the Windows installed base to reach one billion by the end of fiscal year 2008. As Ballmer was quick to point out, that makes more PCs running Windows than there are automobiles in the world. In related news, Microsoft also announced that it's sold 60 million copies of Windows Vista this year, including those 40 million |
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| Featured Windows Download: Migrate or back up your photos to another online service with Migratr |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Digital Photos, Digital Pictures, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Flickr, Top, Web Publishing, Windows |
| Windows only: Freeware application Migratr moves your digital photos from one photo sharing service to another, metadata and all. We're pretty into Flickr here at Lifehacker HQ, but Flickr's free account only serves up 100MB of storage space, so we can understand if, for example, you want to move to the 1GB pastures of an integrated Google |
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| How To: Control BitTorrent downloads from your mobile phone with uTorrent mUI |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Bittorrent, File Sharing, How To, P2p, Peer To Peer, Top, Utorrent, Windows |
| running uTorrent (currently Windows-only, but a Mac version is in the works) and you've installed the WebUI, all you need to do is point your mobile browser to http://utorrentmui.com/ and log in with your WebUI username and pass. If you just want to control your torrents from any desktop browser, or you need help installing and configuring the |
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| In Brief: HTC Kaiser, the possible AT&T 8925, has just ... |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 2:27 pm |
| Tags: 8925, At Amp T, Fcc, Htc, Kaiser, Windows Mobile, Windows Mobile 6, Wm6 |
| HTC Kaiser, the possible AT&T 8925, has just cleared the FCC. [PhoneScoop] |
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| Windows Vs. Linux |
| Published: April 22, 2007, 1:55 am |
| Tags: Operating Systems, Linux, Windows |
| Windows Vs. Linux Jaguarpc.com Web Hosting offers you the choice of Linux and Windows. Both Platform will work on any pc and are capable of powering of your website. Linux or Windows... Which one is best for you? Please Note: One of the biggest misconceptions is that you have to select the same operating system for your hosting account that you |
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| Vista SP1 Beta - VS2008 B2 issues & DirectX 10.1 |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 10:52 am |
| Tags: Vista, Windows, Microsoft |
| Tech Preview requires the Windows Vista SP1 Beta which will be available to MSDN subscribers once it is publicly released. What’s interesting is the reference to a Windows Vista SP1 MSDN release that hasn’t been mentioned before. However, I’m not sure if they mean MSDN subscribers will get it first, or simultaneously during |
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| More TechEd Vista SP1 typos |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 12:19 pm |
| Tags: Vista, Windows, Microsoft |
| the only ones with a “Windows Vista SP1″ typo on their TechEd website. This time around two upcoming TechEd events in Barcelona - TechEd IT Forum and TechEd Developers - both inherit the same ‘typo’ that was on TechEd Australia’s website before being removed earlier last week. Coincidence? I think not. Comparing |
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| Window Clippings: 21st century print screen for Windows |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 10:26 am |
| Tags: Vista, Windows, Microsoft |
| cut it anymore. With Windows Vista’s elegant translucency, blurring, reflections and shadows, Aero is stunning in its own right. However what makes the UI stunning also poses some interesting problems for our decade-old pixels photocopier. What used to be a simple “ALT + Print Screen” to capture the active application |
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| Collection of published Vista SP1 API changes from MSDN |
| Published: July 22, 2007, 6:09 am |
| Tags: Vista, Windows, Microsoft |
| then make up the story. Windows Installer 4.1 (4.0.6001) - "Windows Installer 4.1 updates Windows Installer 4.0 without adding any new features" Application Compatibility Cookbook - "There are no architectural changes for Windows Vista SP1. Applications that are compatible with Windows Vista RTM should continue to be |
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