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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Jim Allchin suggests Vista doesn’t need antivirus.
I’m pretty sure this statement will have to be held against him pretty soon.
Oh well….
I’m becoming a fan of portable apps, i.e. stuff you don’t need to install on your system, and may just live on your USB stick.
Dirk Loss has a great ressource for free Windows apps that fall into this category. The list doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore, but it contains tons of useful stuff anyway.
Jim points me to VMWare Player and a whole bunch of ready-to-run “appliances”, i.e. VMWare images for different operating systems and purposes.
Excellent way to try different Linux distros, or to run personal stuff on the work lappy…
Also interesting: DamnSmallLinux
Make Ubuntu look like OS X
(Via Volker:)
Computerworld has published a list of the 20 worst things about the upcoming Windows Vista
“Everywhere you look, Microsoft has copied things that Apple has offered for quite some time in OS X. The User Account Control features, especially with the Vista Standard log-in, look a lot like Apple’s user interface design. Too bad Microsoft [...]
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- Tags: macosx, windows vista
I’m using a TomTom ONE GPS navigation system in my car, and I do like it a lot.
The maps are quite expensive, often outdated and don’t cover all areas (Ireland is missing completely, for example). With stuff like OpenTom and Google Maps, would it be too far-fetched to expect OSS software that runs on a [...]
If you have to work with Outlook as much as I do, this might be useful:
“DeskTask connects to Microsoft Outlook and displays your calendar and task items on the desktop.
* Your tasks will always be visible, saving precious time to launch or switch to Outlook.
* Just minimize [...]
How to construct the perfect 404 page.
Something to put on the to do list.
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- Tags: 404, web design
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