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Turn On Car Crash Detection If You Have A Pixel Phone
The Bobcat loader pitched over the embankment and overturned in a ravine, trapping the driver and knocking him unconscious for several minutes. The driver, Chuck Walker, had seven broken ribs and four broken thoracic vertebrae. The exits from the Bobcat loader were...
WINDOWS VISTA SERVICE PACK 1 RELEASED
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is available today through Windows Update. Here's the announcement of the general release of SP1, and here's a technical note about a handful of...
WINDOWS HOME SERVER DATA CORRUPTION
The products developed using Microsoft's Windows Home Server software do a number of extremely useful things - backups, remote access, file and photo sharing, and file storage -...
R.I.P. PC MAGAZINE
I can't let the moment pass without acknowledging the loss of a dear friend. Magazines were a crucial source of information in the primitive days before the Internet. PC Magazine...
TALES OF WOE: SOFTWARE DEPT.
My office computer is a powerful Dell tower, with an Nvidia video card and too much software. I choose software carefully, but I use a lot of programs and there is an...
TALES OF WOE: HARDWARE DEPT.
My stick doesn't work. The Dell Latitude D630 is my favorite laptop, just the right combination of light weight and computing power and screen size, with nothing left out - a...
FOLDERSHARE UPGRADE
FolderShare, Microsoft's invaluable free utility for syncing and sharing folders among multiple computers, has gotten a long overdue upgrade. Foldershare starts with a free...
SONIC & SATELLITE SERVICE
Sonoma County's broadband coverage is spotty. Comcast and AT&T are not doing anything to expand cable and DSL service to new areas. There are too many areas with no good...
IPHONE & EXCHANGE
Apple announced today that it has licensed ActiveSync technology from Microsoft, allowing the iPhone to sync mail, contacts, and calendars with Exchange Server. Apple also...
VISTA FEATURE: SPEECH RECOGNITION
Microsoft has been researching speech recognition for more than fifteen years. It has released enterprise products like Speech Server for telephony systems, and built rudimentary...
ONECARE RENEWAL
WIndows Live OneCare is actually a subscription, renewed annually. Many of you are coming up on your one-year anniversary. The date is displayed in the lower left corner of the...
WINDOWS DESKTOP SEARCH ENHANCEMENTS
Windows Desktop Search is deeply built into Windows Vista and can be added for free to Windows XP to index files and Outlook folders for instant searches. By default, it indexes...
VISTA & WEAK HARDWARE
More evidence confirms that poor decisions by Microsoft played an important role in creating the public perception that Vista is a failed operating system. Vista may never...
QUICKBOOKS 2008 UPDATE ERROR
Intuit has caused more than its share of problems in the last few years. Its products were not designed correctly for security; it did a poor job of preparing for Vista; and...
TASKBAR SHUFFLE
Here's a little something that's just perfect for those of you on prescription medication for your compulsive tendencies. We're all running more programs simultaneously than ever...
THE EBB AND FLOW OF MOVIES
Not to be missed - a demonstration of great technology used to present a huge amount of information in an enlightening way. The New York Times has an interactive chart titled...