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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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Microsoft to Publicly Release IE7 Soon

October 7, 2006

In a few weeks, web developers everywhere will have a burden lifted from their backs. Microsoft will be rolling out Internet Explorer 7 to the public. Soon after the download is made available to the public, Microsoft will be pushing IE7 through XP’s Automatic Updates. Therefore there will be a massive migration from IE6 to [...]

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Messenger 6.0 for Mac Released

September 27, 2006

Microsoft released Messenger 6.0 for Mac today. The most notable improvement has been the move to a Universal Binary with the ability to chat with Yahoo! messenger accounts and display your current playing track in iTunes trailing close behind.

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Take Microsoft’s New RSS Aggregator for a Spin

September 11, 2006

Microsoft has released the beta for a spiffy looking RSS Aggregator codenamed Max. The Redmond folks have been doing some tech community-friendly things recently with the Windows Live Writer Beta blogging tool and now this. PC users can download Max Beta 1 here. Let me know what you think.

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Review: Windows Live Writer Beta

August 14, 2006

Microsoft shocked me when they recently released an interesting new blog authoring tool, Windows Live Writer (beta of course). The really interesting part is that, while geared for Windows Live Spaces users, Live Writer works with blog CMSs like WordPress, Movable Type, LiveJournal and Blogger. I have never been fond of using blogging tools [...]

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XP Users: Turn on ClearType!

August 13, 2006

Run Windows XP and want to have the benefit of easier to read, less-jaggy fonts system-wide? Yeah, I thought so too. Right-click the desktop, select Properties, head over to the Appearance tab and click on the Effects button. In the window that opens up, check the second box that says

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Microsoft Live Labs Demos Photosynth

August 1, 2006

There has been a lot of buzz around Microsoft’s new (hopefully) soon-to-be application, Photosynth. The new application manipulates photos in a unique way, allowing its users to create 3D structures based on the photographs imported into it. Now it’s time for the million dollar question – will there be an OS X version?

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Vista Gets Previous Versions Feature

July 31, 2006

ArsTechnica has the scoop on a new feature Microsoft recently added into builds of Windows Vista. The new feature, called Previous Versions, is enabled for users with the System Protection setting enabled. Previous Versions is similar to System Restore points but on a per file and per folder scale. It shadows copies of files [...]

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How To Quickie: Notepad Log File

July 7, 2006

From the this-would-have-come-in-handy-last-semester department comes an awesome tip from Microsoft themselves. It shows how you can create a log file in notepad that automatically adds the time and date stamp everytime it’s opened. Had I known about this earlier in the semester this would have been extremely useful when creating notes in classes. [...]

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XP Users: Shutdown Windows Faster

July 4, 2006

IntelliAdmin explores a service released by Microsoft that can help your computer shutdown faster. The User Profile Hive Cleanup service discussed cleans up user profiles and therefore helps reclaim and distribute system resources once a task is closed.

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Open Office, iTunes, IE7 Beta Updates

June 29, 2006

Open Office version 2.0.3, Apple iTunes 6.0.5 and Microsoft IE7 Beta 3 have all been released today. The Open Office update brings speed improvements, especially for Intel Macs, along with greater file compatibilty among Microsoft Office files. Meanwhile, the new iTunes release offers compatibilty for the Nike+ shoe thing. Microsoft’s third IE7 [...]

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Reason #37 to Avoid Internet Explorer

June 18, 2006

Many people browse the web copying and pasting passwords and other personal information to their clipboards for convenience. They might have just signed up for a new service and copied the randomly created password from the registration email so they can sign in for the first time, or when they have forgotten their password. [...]

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Vista Beta 2 Download Available

June 8, 2006

Microsoft has decided to offer Windows Vista Beta 2 (build 5384.4) to the public for free. I can only assume this is Microsoft’s way of letting everyone know that they have an actual working product and that progress is being made regardless of the delays. This is a great strategy to let people know [...]

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Why IE?

May 29, 2006

The night before a squirrel killed my internet connection, I had spent some time on making my site a little more tolerable when viewed in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Over of a fifth of my readers commute here via Internet Explorer. As many people already know, Internet Explorer does not fully support up [...]

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Windows XP Must-Haves

May 1, 2006

If you read my recent article Boot Camp Installation Tips, you know that I currently have a dual-boot OS X and Windows XP Intel Mac setup. I generally blog in my Mac realm but I was a full-time Windows user for over a decade, so I will discuss some of the applications I have [...]

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