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Getting Virtual / Multiple Desktops on Windows (XP and Vista)

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Have you ever found yourself juggling so many extra windows at work (or at home) on your desktop that you wished you have access to multiple desktops so you could group them together and not clutter one desktop with everything? Yea, me too… Linux has had the idea of “multiple desktops” or “virtual desktops” for a [...]

Legit Vista Crack (OEM Emulation) Released

Monday, March 3, 2008

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APC reports that a legit Vista crack has made it’s way out in the form of an OEM emulator. Apparently Microsoft does not require activation from machines with Vista on them from some OEM partners (See above screenshot) and the crack takes advantage of that. Also… for the folks reading this, “legit Vista crack” doesn’t mean [...]

Microsoft Vista (Backup) Review: A Lesson in Stupidity

Friday, February 15, 2008

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The reason Apple and Mac OS X are so famous is only because Microsoft exists. … don’t skip past that first sentence… it really sums up the rest of this review and explains to you, at so many levels. Let me say it another way: People like Apple products and Mac OS X, because Microsoft set a [...]

Create Customized Windows Vista ISO with vLite

Monday, January 28, 2008

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For the folks that have used nLite with Windows XP and love it, stop right there… vLite is for Vista and works just as awesome. For folks that have no idea what nLite or vLite are, they are these badass programs written by Dino Nuhagic that are used to take the install files for Windows XP [...]

Is 64-bit Vista Stable And Why Should I Care?

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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If your a Mac person your not going to care either way, but for you Windows user 64-bit Vista has some things to offer…… A 64-bit computer can theoretically process twice as much information as a 32-bit computer. This makes a 64-bit computer a good choice if you’re working with video, large database searches, or games [...]

Plays (Not So) For Sure

Monday, January 14, 2008

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I noticed last week that I haven’t seen much of the “Plays for Sure” program around anymore. It seems that Microsoft has left all the 3rd party vendors out in the cold and is now embracing “Certified for Windows Vista”. The Plays for Sure program was a certification prosses that started in 2004 [...]

Windows Vista HDMI DRM Fucks All DRM’ed Media

Thursday, January 3, 2008

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Laurence Hartje sends in a link to a story that is pure-suck… The gist of this (as I understand it) is that in Windows Vista, the new DRM functionality in the operating system is universal and tied to the hardware. More specifically, if you purchase movies while a monitor with a specific HDMI signature is attached [...]

Get Windows Vista Ultimate for Free

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

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Brad Agdern just sent in a cool bit of news for folks that aren’t privacy aficionados. If you don’t mind Microsoft monitoring your computer usage for 3 months (I’m not sure of how detailed the monitoring is… but my guess is that it covers everything you are doing, sites you browse to, files you open, [...]

Windows Vista SP1, Positive Impressions

Thursday, December 6, 2007

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Well the tides are starting to turn… it seems hot on the heels of the public SP1 RC announcement, ZDNet is reporting some good things about SP1, including some nice network performance improvements (they claim 300% increase):

Windows Vista SP1 RC Tommorow

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

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Well it looks like the public RC of the Windows Vista SP1 release is going to drop tomorrow (for TechNet and MDSN subscribers). In addition to that, you can grab a whitepaper describing all the changes here. If you don’t want to skim the PDF, here’s the list: Security Provides security software vendors a more secure way [...]

Vista Speech Recognition + Programming = Super Awesome

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

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Another great movie sent in by a long time reader. The utter disaster of trying to program using Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition technology is hilarious. I’d encourage you to at least watch a few minutes of it, before you throw your keyboard out the window. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc Remember when voice recognition was going to replace keyboards and mice [...]

Windows XP SP3 Shows 10% Performance Gains

Saturday, November 24, 2007

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No wonder Microsoft held XP SP3 release back so damn long, exo.blog benchmarked it using the OfficeBench benchmark and an XP Pro install with SP3 applied actually shows a 10% speed increase over it’s existing SP2 install. (Shorter bars better): That’s a pretty damning result following closely on the heals of Vista SP1 showing no performance improvements [...]

Windows Vista SP1 Performance a Bust

Monday, November 19, 2007

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exo.blog did some testing of the Vista SP1 Release Candidate that was released recently and found the performance overall was almost completely unchanged between the RTM version and this SP1 version. So for the folks that sit and stare that that goddamn progress bar while Vista takes 4x longer to copy the images off your camera, [...]

Technology Reviews

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Welcome to the Technology Reviews section. Below you will find reviews for computer software, hardware, online services and anything else related to technology. Hardware Dell 3008 WFP 30″ LCD Review OLPC (On Laptop Per Child) Laptop Review Onkyo DS-A2 iPod Dock Review Software Adobe Captivate Review and Screencasting Alternatives Blu-ray Profile 1.1 Features & Functionality Review Box.net: Great setup, huge let down Vongo [...]

Updating Drivers Can Cause Vista Deactivation

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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Laurence Hartje just sent along an awesome post from James Bannan over at APC Mag. I’ll give you a hint what it’s about: Microsoft is fucking retarded. Give it a read: Just over a month ago I swapped over the graphics card on my Vista Ultimate box. There were some new DirectX 10-based titles out and I [...]

Vista to Ubuntu Migration Superguide

Monday, October 22, 2007

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NOTE: Ashton’s guide is for Ubuntu 6.06, a lot of things he disliked in the guide have been taken care of in either 7.04 or 7.10, the newest release. While the guide has some good information in it, please keep in mind that some of the “wtf” gripes he may have may not exist any [...]

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Getting Virtual / Multiple Desktops on Windows (XP and Vista)

Legit Vista Crack (OEM Emulation) Released

Microsoft Vista (Backup) Review: A Lesson in Stupidity

Create Customized Windows Vista ISO with vLite

Is 64-bit Vista Stable And Why Should I Care?

Plays (Not So) For Sure

Windows Vista HDMI DRM Fucks All DRM’ed Media

Get Windows Vista Ultimate for Free

Windows Vista SP1, Positive Impressions

Windows Vista SP1 RC Tommorow

Vista Speech Recognition + Programming = Super Awesome

Windows XP SP3 Shows 10% Performance Gains

Windows Vista SP1 Performance a Bust

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