Category Archives: Computers and Internet

Exchange & ActiveSync – Coming soon to an iPhone near you Apple did some announcing yesterday (March 6) regarding the "iPhone Software Roadmap".  One of the announcements was that you’ll be able to sync your Apple iPhone and perhaps your … Continue reading →

Vista SP1 Changes to Remote Desktop Sessions A colleague brought up an interesting change in the switches used to establish remote desktop sessions.  In original Vista, if you wanted to fire up a console session on a remote box, you’d … Continue reading →

Crayon Physics Deluxe A finalist in the 2008 Independent Games Festival (IGF) – Crayon Physics Deluxe looks like it’s going to be a pretty cool educational app – and fun to boot.  I plan on getting it for my son … Continue reading →

GRC.COM Goodies For those not familiar with Steve Gibson and the goodies available on his site, I figured I’d post some links to some pretty useful software tools and freebies. Script-free Pure CSS Menu Always the security purist, Steve Gibson … Continue reading →

Mole – Debugging App for Visual Studio I heard about this on the Polymorphic Podcast when Craig interviewed Josh Smith about the Mole Project. Looks to be a sweet add-on for the serious Visual Studio developer – with support for … Continue reading →

Live Mail / Hotmail Access Restored! Finally, I’m back online with my Live mail account.  For those none Live/Hotmail users, there was a slight hiccup in the matrix that took Hotmail/Live mail offline this week.  By midweek, reports were that … Continue reading →

Microsoft DreamSpark – FREE is GOOD! "Free is good!" is one of my favorite sayings, and now it looks like Microsoft is adding another notch in their freedom and goodness belt with the announcement of Microsoft Dreamspark.  This program is … Continue reading →

Say Goodbye to all those CDs and DVDs I used to schlep a couple of CD-holders around in my laptop bag all the time.  Back in the good old days you never knew when you were going to be prompted … Continue reading →

Configuring the Dell XPS M1730 Laptop So far so good with the new laptop.  I broke the RAID mirroring between the two 200Gig hard drives and installed Vista x64 Ultimate.  Since this blows away all of the drivers and other … Continue reading →

Ultimate Developer Laptop Like any developer/IT pro, my schedule is nowhere close to the mythical 9-5.  I have to put out the fires, keep up with the never-ending onslaught of email, research current and upcoming technologies, keep the servers patched … Continue reading →