I've been using Vista since the beta days of early 2006, and I've written two books about Vista. I like it - a lot - but the combination of indifferent OEM driver support and systems bundled with prog ...

After returning from 2001 and finding a number of page hits featuring me, I'm glad to report that there were absolutely no space-time continuum problems caused by my encounters with me. But then, bas ...

I have no problems going to http://maps.live.com and using the directions feature with either Firefox 2 (on XP SP3) or Firefox 3 (on Vista SP1). Please try it on a different PC (if possible) and let m ...

These cards won't be barn burners, but by providing users the ability to get drivers that aren't tangled up with the mobo chipset, they might be worthwhile choices for users with modest requirements. ...

it will still be around, and just a download away. Keep in mind that Windows 7 will give you the option to get these tools from the Live website, or to use other tools.-------------------------------- ...

Maybe Microsoft should consider making downloading and installing the latest Live products very easy, such as with an icon on the desktop or in the Start menu, similar to the way they once provided li ...

Although the mainland Chinese government likes to refer to Taiwan as a "rebellious province," Taiwan is actually an independent nation. Taiwan is also known as the Republic of China, and unl ...

I use Vista Ultimate on my business laptop because I also do content creation on it, and Ultimate gives you all of the business-type features (like domain network support, image-based backup with shad ...

One of the best ways to look back on what's changed in technology is to have the ads, and for whatever reason, the ads are not found in the PDF versions of the magazine. It might not matter now, but i ...

The hardware counterfeiting problem's been around a long time. Over a decade ago, for example, there were 486-class motherboards that included fake cache RAM chips. More recent examples have included ...

...so the HPer's "denial" is plausible without actually ruling out the possibility of a customized Linux distro. A customized Linux distro on DVD could enable HP to:1. Provide a single manuf ...

The lack of post-sales support is the biggest weakness in Microsoft's new retail plan, especially since so many of us live in a part-Redmond, part-someplace else world. I use a mix of Microsoft, Adobe ...

Yes, you're right. My family's been happily posing for the camera for many years (so I take their pictures when they're not posing!), and are prominently featured in my Easy Digital Cameras book.---- ...

In my research for my forthcoming book Unleashing Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center (available in November), I discovered some programs that help improve network support for WMC recording and integ ...

...must be as important a qualification as a certification or technology skill set. Tech knowledge is a tool that can be used for good or evil ends - and given the difficulty of catching the bad guys ...

What this means is that Microsoft is working with system and BIOS vendors to assure that systems built for Windows 7 have BIOS code that works very well with Windows 7. This isn't new: most motherboar ...

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Once again, what looks like "bad hardware" is often bad drivers. I'm glad Creative has finally gotten their act together, as I have a couple of Audigy 2 cards myself.------------------------ ...

I don't recall anybody making suggestions regarding supporting only 64-bit (x64) in Windows 7 at the e7 blog. I think there's some merit to the idea, especially if Redmond can solve the problem of x86 ...

...and send pix directly to Flickr or other photo-sharing sites. You can control when this happens as well (for example, if you want to perform some photo-editing first). See http://forums.eye.fi/view ...

The Eye-Fi card isn't designed to transfer anything but the pictures it stores. See http://forums.eye.fi/viewtopic.php?t=222 for details.-------------------------------------------------------------- ...

Thanks for the suggestion to try Gbridge.----------------------------------------------------------------------It's amazing how illogical a business built on binary logic can be. ...

If you had to deduce a theme from this year's Extend Firefox 3 competition, bookmarks - specifically, ways to tag and organize bookmarks - would be the theme. Apologies for any confusion the post titl ...

I've seen my share of hard disk disasters over the years, including disk crashes, corrupted file systems, and I even restored a disk image to the wrong logical drive one time. By keeping my data on a ...

This is an outstanding tutorial, and especially so because it doesn't shy away from the "here's what do if things go wrong" aspect. I used to be a big Partition Magic fan, but found myself ...