I’m going to be writing two articles soon: one on the state of Vista 64 bit and another on the Windows Mojave experiment. You should be pleasantly surprised with both of them.
I’m going to be writing two articles soon: one on the state of Vista 64 bit and another on the Windows Mojave experiment. You should be pleasantly surprised with both of them.
You should be able to login to Gmail now, click on Settings, and at the bottom of the General tab you can set Gmail to always use a secure (HTTPS) connection. I’ve been doing this for a while because I booked my Gmail login page with https in the address bar, and I’ve been advocating this for a long time.
Thanks Google!
I’ve gotten a lot of email about this article, and while I discussed it on the podcast this week (which you like haven’t heard yet) and have a note about it in today’s Short Takes (which isn’t online yet), it bears mentioning because, well, I told you so:
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista’s skeptics.
Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks, Microsoft last week traveled to San Francisco, rounding up Windows XP users who had negative impressions of Vista. The subjects were put on video, asked about their Vista impressions, and then shown a “new” operating system, code-named Mojave. More than 90 percent gave positive feedback on what they saw. Then they were told that “Mojave” was actually Windows Vista.
Microsoft is still trying to figure out just how it will use the Mojave footage in its marketing, though it will clearly have a place.
In an interview Wednesday, Windows unit business chief Bill Veghte told CNET News that he wants to see his unit try new things to get the message across.
“We have a huge perception opportunity,” he said, offering a glass half-full assessment of things. “We are going to try a bunch of stuff.”
Much of that perception, Microsoft belatedly acknowledges, stems from Apple’s successful and unchallenged anti-Vista campaign. But, after stewing over the ads on many of his morning runs, Veghte decided that it was time to strike back, even without a new version of Windows to tout. Apple, he said, has “crossed a line” from fact into fiction.
Exactly. I have no problem with Apple (or any other company) competing aggressively with Microsoft. But the Apple ads lapse into outright lying.
Bravo to this.
I’ll add a related anecdote. While up in Sonoma a few weeks ago, I was finishing off something on my laptop and our friends came into the hotel room. One of them, looking at the laptop said, “that’s beautiful. Is that Mac OS X?” (Qualifier: She is a graphic designer. What can you do?) I said, “no, that’s Windows Vista.” And she replied,” Wow. It’s really nice looking. I heard it was awful.”
It’s time to set the record straight.
This is another one of those tiny little utilities you can run to find out all sorts of information about your hardware. In this case, your graphics card!
I found this from THE Cisco Blog – http://packetlife.net/
I just found this website and they have some awesome (FREE) CPU and Hardware monitoring tools. You can get all kinds of information about your CPU with CPU-Z and you get also find out important things like Fan Speed etc. with HWMonitor. Check it out, these free tools are small, functional and well worth having around.
As part of Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.0.1 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux for free download from http://getfirefox.com/.
We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release. If you already have Firefox 3.0, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting “Check for Updates…” from the Help menu.
For a list of changes and more information, please review the Firefox 3.0.1 Release Notes.
Note: All Firefox 2.0.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.0.1 by downloading it from http://getfirefox.com/.
Download this small program based on Adobe AIR to manage your Twitter account from your desktop. Very cool stuff.
