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Category Archives: microsoft

ie8 finally caught up

Did you see the puke commercial Microsoft has running to promote IE8? They pulled it already on their own site but it’s on Youtube now so it’s gonna stay out there for now. But the thing is that they are throwing some big bucks at it to promote their latest IE release which bring us [...]

how to use MSN IM without a hotmail account

Hotmail sucks doesn’t it. It’s slow, only works properly in Internet Explorer (and what geek still want to use that), and it’s just plain uncool. Problem is, since Microsoft likes to throw everything from hotmail, Windows live to MSN instant messenger accounts together I always thought you needed a hotmail account to use anything related [...]

how to move an unreachable window

Did you ever run into that weird issue on a Windows XP machine where an application starts up and nests itself somewhere on the screen where you can’t reach it? Either because it was once started when using an extended desktop and the window was located on the second (now dead) screen? Or by [...]

why windows desktop search sucks ass

So I’m using Windows Desktop Search at work for quick retrieval of emails and files since we’ve grown so used to the “search instead of sort” motto Google thought us. It’s WDS not because we want to use it, but because we have to from the IT guys. They got a bit spooked by the [...]

scary stuff

No not huge hairy spiders crawling on your face at night, or mutating radioactive zombies (although those would be rather scary), but more real life stuff.
The possibility of a Christian reverent becoming president of the US of A. FTW! As if it wasn’t bad enough already with the currently inspired by Christianity-when-it-suited-his-cause Bush Jr.
Creationism anyone? [...]

mapping online storage as a local drive

why windows will be free in a few years

Recently I read an article in one of those oldskool dead-tree blogs (you know, newspapers or something they call them) on how Microsoft was not going to pursue illegal copies of Windows in Eastern countries like China and India. You see, the Redmond folks are more interested in getting a good piece of market share [...]