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Finally got Windows XP mode working.

  For some reason I hadn’t been able to get windows XP mode working before the patch. My processor was on the list of processors that did hardware virtualization but every time I tried to get XP mode up and running it would just freeze up.   Anyway here it is in all it’s glory, [...]

Yahoo down for the count?

Yahoo earlier this year reported they would be  closing doors for the holiday season starting Dec 25th thru Jan 1 as seen here in this article. Sadly all day today the yahoo widgets website has been showing nothing as far as content is concerned. While I can accept this as a clear indicator where the [...]

Happy Holidays – Remember!

  I haven’t been blogging cause I haven’t been feeling well and blogging is far from my mind right now. But since things are starting to quiet down for the holidays I’ll get back to the blogging habit. But in the meantime I have  added snow to the page in honor of winter/xmas/new years and [...]

Epiphany: Live Mesh = Dropbox

  The other day my brother called me in a huge rush to update and send out a copy of his resume to a prospective employer.  I had to stop for a minute to  remember if I even had a copy of his resume in my system anymore.  I started a few searches thru mail [...]

Yahoo brings out the “You” in Yahoo

Microsoft security essentials goes live

After years of delaying the inevitable Microsoft has finally went live on an Antivirus product of it own.  No one ever quite understood why the company who knows the most about the weaknesses  and attack vectors of it’s own OS has never attempted to create  some kind of basic shield to protect users from the [...]

win7 bubbles screensaver hack

cute commercial from microsoft

login screen changer

  There has been a ton of discussion for some reason about the ability to change the image for the login screen on the upcoming Windows 7 OS.  Personally I don’t care one way or the other it’s just a login screen, as long as my desktop that I have to look at all the [...]

zune4 software in action

  I am working on a review of my Microsoft Zune HD and the accompanying  Zune  v4 software.  But while I get to that check out this video of the desktop software in action, which I use as my only desktop media player. Just a note the video is a little shuddery but the software [...]