I have been using the Release Candidate of Windows 7 since it came out. Every day I try to poke around and find out what is new. I found an interesting tool for finding programs and settings that eat away at your laptop battery life. It is available as a new command line option of […]
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I have been looking for a good synchronization program for a long time now. I have had the opportunity to try quite a few over the years. I came across another one last week called GoodSync. I decided to give it a try. Two issues I always have with most sync programs I have used: […]
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Since 2000 every version of Windows uses object reuse protection. When you create a file, the space on the hard drive for that file will be zeroed out. Another way of looking at this is when a file is created, Windows will make it impossible to see what was there before. But what about right […]
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I have quite a few scripts that are run by task scheduler on my server. One of the ways I track the results is by writing to a text file in a common share. After a while this can become a little ridiculous to follow. Recently I discovered that it is possible to create your […]
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The first release candidate of Windows 7 has been dated to release on May 5th. One of the big revelations by Microsoft in recent days is the availability of a Windows XP mode. This is unlike previous versions of windows that simply had a compatibility check box. This will be a fully functional Virtual machine […]
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Last Tuesday Microsoft confirmed that the next version of Office (code named Office 14), will come in both 32 and 64 bit versions. Office 14, is expected to be called Office 2010, but no name has been announced yet. The most fascinating part about this new release is that Microsoft will be including browser based […]
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Since the 3.1 release of our Remote Control Product it has supported group policy. Supporting is nice, but if there is no way to get to these settings, then it does not exist for the customer. Recently we have been getting requests for a finer level of control over who, and how people can remote […]
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Microsoft released IE 8 for public consumption a few days ago. Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, who leads the IE 8 development team, made the announcement during his keynote address at the company’s MIX09 conference going on in Las Vegas. While I still use Firefox daily, I can see that Microsoft has made every attempt to make […]
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I have almost 4 years worth of emails in a Gmail account. I have tried using other services, and even ran my own email server – but I always find Google calling me back with their top notch spam protection. The problem with that is…well I have 4 years worth of emails. Many of them […]
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In the battle for dominance over virtualization VMWare has made another shot towards Microsoft. Today they have announced that an open source client will be released for VMWare servers. This is big news since it will now allow third parties to port their client to other platforms such as thin clients, phones, and special purpose […]
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