Author Archives: cpuguru

Live Mail Fail (still)

Posted on 2008/07/08 by cpuguru

Live Mail Fail (still) Okay…a few more weeks have passed, and surely my Live Mail Woes issues that I blogged about in June are resolved, right?  WRONG!  Oh I keep hoping…today’s the day…today’s the day that I’m going to click … Continue reading →

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Password Complexity Requirements

Posted on 2008/06/22 by cpuguru

Password Complexity Requirements Okay – yet another one of my pet peeves.  I installed the Adobe CS3 web suite and had to log into the Adobe site to pull down the authorization key to get this puppy fired up.  Typical … Continue reading →

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Live Mail Woes Continue…

Posted on 2008/06/15 by cpuguru

Live Mail Woes Continue… On May 6th I was doing a re-install of the OS on my laptop and I installed Live Mail – which had previously been working fine.  That was up until the "unable to synchronize folders" issue … Continue reading →

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Virtual PC 2007 SP1

Posted on 2008/06/06 by cpuguru

Virtual PC 2007 SP1 I’m not quite sure how this slipped by me but it did.  I was in the process of yet again re-paving the laptop (explanation below) and re-installing Virtual PC 2007 when I ran across a download … Continue reading →

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Phoenix Has Landed!

Posted on 2008/05/26 by cpuguru

Phoenix Has Landed! The search is ongoing for life on Mars.  The Odyssey Orbiter detected what appears to be large amounts of subsurface ice on the northern pole of Mars back in 2002.  Where there’s water, there’s life, right?  Such … Continue reading →

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Microsoft support for OOXML/ODF

Posted on 2008/05/23 by cpuguru

Microsoft Support for OOXML/ODF Just a quick entry on ODF support by Microsoft Office.  Looks like Microsoft has announced support for the Open Document Format (ODF) with SP2 of Office 2007 – which probably won’t come out until 2009.  There’s … Continue reading →

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Windows XP SP3

Posted on 2008/05/21 by cpuguru

Windows XP SP3 Nothing too ground-breaking here, just some info on XP Service Pack 3 that I wanted to post.  It should be available for pretty much everybody to install now via Windows Update.  If you haven’t taken the time, … Continue reading →

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Touch Wall

Posted on 2008/05/14 by cpuguru

Touch Wall Pretty slick demo of the possibilities with a touch-aware wall (think a vertical Surface).  I can definitely imagine a lot of teaching and presentation scenarios for this technology.  Add connectivity to my content via Live Mesh and voila … Continue reading →

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Groking the WorldWide Telescope

Posted on 2008/05/13 by cpuguru

Groking the WorldWide Telescope In March I blogged about a talk at the TED conference on the WorldWide Telescope project that Microsoft Research was working on.  Well, it looks like a Beta version of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT) software is … Continue reading →

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R2-D2 DVD Projector

Posted on 2008/05/08 by cpuguru

R2-D2 DVD Projector I GOTTA get me one off these.  Are you listening honey??? Fathers day is only a month away….    Just think of the possibilities…it’s late at night, you’re catching up on the Battlestar Galactica episodes that you’ve … Continue reading →

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