With my on-going search for making my life ever-easier, I have turned to using smaller applications to keep my readers and fans informed. This can get to be an overwhelming problem when you are tweeting, facebooking, blogging, and – oh yeah – writing. So instead of adding to my already-large collection of tabs in Chromium [...]
Microsoft Details Forthcoming Windows Phone Improvements
Microsoft have outlined the changes that they’ll be bringing to their new Windows Phone smartphone platform in 2011. The announcement was made on the Microsoft website in a press release earlier today and were timed to coincide with the first day of the World Mobile Congress exhibition in Barcelona. The new features include… Twitter Integration [...]
List Of Internet Explorer 9 RC Changes
If you have followed the news you know that Microsoft did release the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9 a few days ago. You may have also heard of some of the new features of the release candidate. Both Tracking Protection and ActiveX Filtering have without doubt received the most media attention. But did you [...]
Download IE9 Blocker Toolkit To Prevent Automatic Internet Explorer 9 Distribution
A final release of Microsoft’s newest Internet browser Internet Explorer 9 is just around the corner. Microsoft plans to deliver the browser as an important update via Windows Update which are set to be automatically downloaded and installed by default. This can be problematic in computer networks, organizations and businesses that do not want to [...]
Free Up Disk Space By Deleting Older Google Chrome Versions
You may know that I have a Intel Solid State Drive with 80 Gigabytes of space as my primary hard drive. Windows 7 is installed on that drive and the majority of applications that I use. I recently noticed that the drive was showing that only 10 Gigabytes of free space were remaining. I was [...]
Internet Explorer 9 Tracking Protection Lists
Tracking protection is a new security and privacy feature that Microsoft has integrated into the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9. It will be available in the release version of the browser as well. Tracking Protection is disabled by default and needs to be enabled in the options under Tools > Safety > Tracking Protection. [...]
Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse Review
I was pretty excited when I read for the first time about Microsoft’s Arc Touch mouse. The unique design and touch capabilities brought features to the table that no other Windows mouse offered at the time of writing. Many questions remained unanswered though which I definitely had to find out before I’d consider purchasing the [...]
“I’m bored… There’s Nothing on the Internet!” The Argument for a Walled Garden
The call “There’s nothing on TV” has long been a common phrase in households around the world, but now I’m beginning hear people express disappointment with the quality and availability of good stuff on the Internet. This has just gotta be absurd, right!? Well, perhaps not. There can be absolutely no doubting that the Internet [...]
How To Change The File Download Location In Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 saves files automatically to the Users\username\Downloads folder which is usually stored on the partition that Windows is installed on. Some users may want to move the download location to another hard drive or partition. Users with Solid State Drives for instance, or users with little space left on the Windows drive, [...]