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Review: 2009 Lincoln MKS with Microsoft SYNC

June 4, 2009 · 31 comments

Those of you that have been following me online for the past few years might know that I maintain a healthy interest in cars in addiction addition to my tech obsession. It wasn’t too long ago that I was in Detroit attending the North American Intl Auto Show, and it was just a year ago that I was on a roadtrip through New York to Washington, D.C. following 17 college teams that re-engineered SUVs to be more sustainable (I even got to drive a fuel cell powered SUV). I could go on and mention how I was at the SCCA Nationals last weekend at Road Atlanta or talk about my involvement with the Fiesta Movement, but I think you get the point. I’m a car nut. So when [click to continue…]

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Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters Ads: When Will They Stop?

May 5, 2009 · 74 comments

If you haven’t caught wind of Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters advertisements by now, well you’re lucky. They’re a series of (hopefully only) six ads meant to take a jab at Apple’s successful “Get A Mac” commercials. So far four of these ads are out and they are based on the premise that some person is looking for a particular computer for their needs within a certain budget. If they find what they’re looking for, Microsoft pays for the computer. True in Microsoft spirit, these commercials are all full of issues. The first ad was filled with controversy after people discovered an actress [click to continue…]

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Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo!

February 1, 2008 · 25 comments

This very well might be one of those moments that defines tech news in 2008, especially if Yahoo! accepts Microsoft’s 44.6 billion dollar offer. For the past few years Yahoo! has been suffering. In 2006, this became more widely known when [click to continue…]

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Georgia Tech Loves Halo 3

September 26, 2007 · 13 comments

I have been trying to ignore the Halo 3 coverage everywhere online as I don’t have an Xbox 360 and the hype has started to make me want one (even though my bank account is at -$44.63). But this type of stuff is hard to ignore when you go to a tech school and campus was noticeably void the [click to continue…]

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Office Ultimate 2007 – Now $59 for Students

September 12, 2007 · 33 comments

Shortly after I publish this post, Microsoft will kickstart a campaign called The Ultimate Steal where Office Ultimate 2007 will be sold to students for a ridiculous $59 (retail is closer to $600). This is one of the best things Microsoft could do for students. Granted most of my classmates pirated Office 2007, use Google Docs or use OpenOffice, had [click to continue…]

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Microsoft Surface: What You Need to Know

May 30, 2007

Microsoft is the first major player to announce a surface computing computer. The device is dubbed simply Microsoft Surface and is comprised of a 30-inch acrylic tabletop powered by a special Vista computer, 5 cameras and a DLP projector. Surface finally brings multi-touch technology, first exhibited by Jeff Han, to the masses.

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Google Maps Street View, MS Live Search Maps 3D

May 29, 2007

My friend Dimitry has a post detailing the newest Google Maps feature – Street View. As the name implies, you can see an area at the street level as opposed to up above with traditional satellite views. At the moment, Street View is only for Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco.

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Office for Mac Open XML Converter Released

May 15, 2007

Last December there was a bit of ruckus regarding Office for Mac’s inability to work with Office 2007’s new XML-based document formats. While the promised Office for Mac-integrated converters have yet to arrive (6-8 more weeks), Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has released a standalone converter application that provides read-only access to Office Open XML files [...]

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How To Quickie: Vista Permissions

February 9, 2007

If you’ve ever tried to tinker with something in Vista and received a “you need permission to perform this action” warning, you know how frustrating it can be. Vista’s new found “security” locks down a lot of things even if your user account has administrative privileges. I ran into a problem like this when

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Intype – Powerful Text Editor for Windows

February 4, 2007

Thanks to a comment from Jim Karagiannis, I recently discovered Intype. Intype will be pretty much as close as you can get to TextMate’s perfection on Windows. I say “will be” because Intype is only in the early stage of development, but I can already tell it’s headed in the right direction. Those familiar with [...]

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Vista Exploit Can Delete Your Files

February 1, 2007

From the Steve-Jobs-is-having-a-field-day-with-this department, Microsoft has confirmed a hole in Windows Vista’s speech recognition capability that allows a malicious site or email attachment to delete files remotely. But I would actually classify this hole as nothing to be concerned about. For your Vista PC to be in any danger you must have speech recognition activated, [...]

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Windows Vista Officially Released

January 30, 2007

Vista has finally arrived and it comes in an overwhelming variety of flavors. Wikipedia has a detailed chart comparing each version of Vista; on the high-end there is the Vista Ultimate full version retailing for $399 and at the low-end we’ve got the Vista Home Basic upgrade for $99. Then there is the Vista Ultimate [...]

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The Vista Challenge

January 27, 2007

Last week I got a copy of Vista Business edition through my MSDN Academic Alliance account at Georgia Tech. Obviously, I was compelled to install it and test it out. I was able to successfully get a dual-boot OS X and Vista setup working so I bring to you today, The Vista Challenge. I will [...]

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Office 2007 Open XML Formats Not Mac Friendly

December 5, 2006

APC mag reports that Microsoft Office 2007 makes use of Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, however there is nothing “open” about these formats to Office for Mac users. As I blogged about back in April, Microsoft is making use of four character file extensions such as .docx, .pptx and .xlsx. It seems like Microsoft wants [...]

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Windows Users: IE7 Released

October 18, 2006

As mentioned earlier, Microsoft has been busy preparing Internet Explorer 7 for public distribution. It went live for download earlier today. You can read about it at the MSDN IEBlog or you can go to Microsoft.com/IE to download your copy now.

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