I’m typically one of those who is underwhelmed by what Microsoft offers. There isn’t really anything “sexy” about Windows, Office, SharePoint, etc. There are two recent products that I’ve seen that actually make me interested in what Microsoft is doing — in more than just the how-are-they-screwing-up-now kind of way.
The first is Surface. [...]
My wife gave birth to our second son last week, so I was out of the office all week. I brought my laptop with me to the hospital so I would be able to dump photos from the camera if the memory card filled up. While in labor and getting settled into the [...]
If you have heard about Parallels for running a virtualized OS within Mac OS X (Intel) chances are you have heard about VMWare Fusion. Parallels has a feature called Coherence that pulls the virtualized applications out of the “boxed in” interface, and allows them to “mingle” with the OS X apps. VMWare obviously has picked [...]
Another shortcut key discovered by accident. I was moving around my inbox with the keyboard, deleting messages, when I mis-keyed and hit Insert instead of Delete. Much to my pleasant surprise I found that Insert flagged the highlighted message with the default red flag. If you hit Insert on a message that [...]
If you are a Mac user, and also use the Cisco VPN client to connect to your corporate (or any other) network, have I got a treat for you. The product name is Shimo, and your VPN experience just became truly Mac-like.
The initial reason for the development of Shimo was the lousy software implementation [...]
I’ve seen some chatter about the Mac utility, Paparazzi, that captures the entire length of a webpage into an image. Great product, but limited to those of us who have chosen to “walk in the light” of Mac OS X. I was looking for something similar, but for Windows.
Enter Screengrab!. [...]
This is indirectly tech related, but generally not. The USPS has gone and upped the postal rates from $0.39 to $0.41 for the first ounce on a first class letter. They’ve also introduced something known as the Forever Stamp. I received a word of warning/advise about the use of this [...]
Bren and I are working to setup a news/announcement blog at work. This blog will have multiple authors, and most of the authors will only post to one or two categories each. There might be some overlap of categories.
Following the logic of the Principle of Least Privilege — plus having a healthy dose [...]
Bren posted about this a good while ago, but I get so much use out of it that I figured I’d spread it around again.
If you accidentally close a tab you can bring it back from the netherworld by hitting Shift+Cmd+T (on a Mac) or Shift+Ctrl+T (on Windows).
This is so incredibly helpful when you get [...]
My dad runs a Joomla! based website that I have been hosting. Just recently we decided to migrate it to a different web host, so I had to figure out how to move it.
I was initially puzzled by how to accomplish this move with the least amount of pain. I’ve enjoyed the slick [...]