First Day Feel of Google Chrome
September 3, 2008 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Yesterday I watched the Google Chrome screencast and installed Google Chrome on a few machines just to find out what all the hype was about. Apparently this is a very important project to Google as the two Google founders [...]
Google Chrome Internet Browser
September 2, 2008 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
Today, apparently, Google will be making available a new web browser called Google Chrome. Check it out when it comes out.
I am not sure what Google can offer to make me move from FireFox, I am a web junkie and all the extensions that FireFox gives me are something that I can not live online [...]
Firefox 3 beta 4
March 25, 2008 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
I decided to upgrade my Firefox, work is s little slow and I thought a software headache was better than just walking into traffic on the highway. Firefox is my primary browser at work and I am using the latest patch of the 2.0 build.
I installed, allowed the Firefox 3 beta 4 to overwrite my [...]
Microsoft Flight Simulator X video cards
December 28, 2007 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
I have been working on a computer for the last few days that is a few years old but would be used for playing Microsoft Flight Simulator X and it has been a bit of a battle.
First of all when I looked at the requirements it looks like it does not take much to run [...]
Writing, freeware and Nanowrimo
November 19, 2007 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
A couple of years ago I tried to do the national novel writing month contest. The contest does not really have judged winners and losers but it is actually a month long race in November to try to write a 50,000 word novel. Thousands of people try and quite a few actually do complete it. [...]
Windows Home Server
July 10, 2007 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
Microsoft today announced the first Release Candidate of the Windows Home Server. This is going to be the hub of peoples home networks.
Right now, for most people the center of the home network is the wireless router in the basement or living room and all of the computers are basically their own entities. I have [...]
Foxit PDF Reader
March 18, 2007 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
Many people are under the mistaken impression that Adobe owns the PDF format. If you have ever used Linux then you may know differently but there are many readers and writers to create Acrobat type PDF files and one was just upgraded and released today.
If you have ever looked for an alternative to Adobe Acrobat [...]
Acronis True Image
March 15, 2007 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
I first heard about and used Acronis True Image a couple of years ago. I used the desktop imaging software as an option to Norton Ghost and PQDI I had used PQDI Image Center in the past and was pretty happy with it so at the time I did not really care much about Acronis [...]
Windows opensource alternatives
March 9, 2007 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
If you have ever been interested in using opensource, that is applications that are free and free to change then there are a few places to find them here is one site that I discovered today…
Open Source Alternative – Find Open Source Alternatives to commercial software
There is another more obvious site and that is sourceforge. [...]
Flock – Be a Flockstar
March 5, 2007 by admin
Filed under Windows Software
Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.
Flock — the social web browser
Well that is what the guys at [...]












































