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Tips for optimizing Vista on new hardware
23 April 08 07:42 PM | Ewan | 2 Comments   
Ed Bott over at ZDNet posted a really interesting article yesterday, detailing the journey he had of making his friend's brand new Sony Viao laptop work properly with Windows Vista Business. In short, his friend upgraded a trusty old XP Vaio to a new Read More...
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Windows Media Center query-based recording
23 February 08 06:32 PM | Ewan | 3 Comments   
Here's a tip for anyone running Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate editions (the ones with Media Center functionality), if you have a suitable tuner set up and configured. I mentioned this in passing to someone who uses Media Center as their primary Read More...
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Dell's "anti-crapware" initiative doesn't go far enough
10 October 07 09:15 AM | Ewan | 5 Comments   
My wife's small business has recently had a requirement to upgrade a couple of PCs, after 5 or 6 years. Since I am ultimately responsible for all their IT (and I am not proud of what they have - I cut all sorts of corners to make my life easy, but they Read More...
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BBC iPlayer kicks up a stink
12 July 07 05:00 PM | Ewan | 1 Comments   
It's been interesting reading various news articles about the fact that the soon-to-be-released BBC iPlayer application will initially be available only to Internet Explorer and Windows XP users. The Register reports that a group called the Open Source Read More...
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Vista Aero Glass - performance hit (or not)
31 January 07 07:40 PM | Ewan | 5 Comments   
Just read an interesting analysis at http://firingsquad.com/hardware/windows_vista_aero_glass_performance/ where they tested a couple of different systems running Windows Vista with Aero Glass switched on and off. ( Windows Aero - if you're not aware Read More...
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Sideshow Media Center remote - want one!
13 January 07 12:03 PM | Ewan | 0 Comments   
I've been a long-time user of the Philips Pronto programmable remote - it's an LCD touch screen based affair, which can be programmed to the 9th degree to create your own UI of macros which correspond to lots of different activities on different remotes Read More...
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