Category: Windows Desktop
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Office 2013 upgrade – red pill or blue pill?
The red pill and its opposite, the blue pill, are pop culture symbols representing the choice between the blissful ignorance of illusion (blue) and embracing the sometimes painful truth of reality (red). Wikipedia about The Matrix movie I have to decide whether to upgrade to Office 2013. If I want my life to be easy I should just take the blue…
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Why you should put an SSD in your laptop
I have an elderly Dell Studio 1558 running Windows 7 and the boot time is 2 mins 28 s and the time to complete the login and start-up applications was 4 mins 30s. It is well-known that start-up time increase as a system gets older. This is due to the accumulation of bad registry keys, poor drivers,…
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How to survive Windows 8. The official guide
The Reg. has published “How to survive Windows 8. The official guide” It is funny and informative. I loved this comment. Re: Windows 8 promises to be a disaster in offices. But what if your workers need to operate in a modern multi-media cloud enabled social web interactive multi-paradigm environment?
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Turn your PC into a WiFi hotspot
Connectify Hotspot is a great free utility that lets you turn your PC or laptop into a WiFi hotspot. Typical use cases include You have an Ethernet connection to your laptop and you can now share it with your mobile phone or tablet. You are in a meeting room that has wired Ethernet but no wireless. Now…
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Add Snagit printer to your workflow
I have just found out that Snagit printer can be of great benefit to project managers. As a project manager document control is a big part of what I do. Final versions of documents are always PDFs. One common problem is combining information from different Microsoft Office applications. Although pasting from Excel to Word has…
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Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register
An interesting article on Windows 8 Server. Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer More than just a few tweaks… via Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer • The Register. Windows Server has always been the choice of businesses for system administration and file storage. The only significant competitive advantage that Linux/Unix had was…
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Stop screen glare and work outside
I blog on what makes development easier, usually it’s software but today it is a remarkable film that you put on your laptop screen. The problem is that my new laptop has a glossy screen; that’s fine for movies but useless for development work. In bright light all I can see is my reflection and…
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unix shell or Windows Powershell?
Chris and I are building a complex application called Keyapt SMS. It has a mobile component, a server component and a pure JavaScript front end. The source and build control requirements for this are complex. We manage the source and build control in FogBugz and Kiln (Mercurial). [We also provide training in these]. Chris a…
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Play a wav sound when your ant build has completed
I have spent the day doing various ant builds. I leave the build running and sometimes don’t notice that it has finished or failed along the way. Wouldn’t it be nice if the ant script went beep on success or failure? Well at the Windows 7 command prompt you can do prompt> (CALL ant dist…
Dr James Bayley 