Tag Archives: Windows
Apple and Android–what is a Post PC device
Last March, when the iPad 2 was released, Steve Jobs described it as a Post PC device. Rather scathingly I could not agree to that as under iOS4 you still needed to activate it using iTunes and a PC of Windows or OSX flavours. The promise was that once iOS5 was available, this would be [...]
Netbooks sales drop 40%
Now would that be because everyone who wants one, has one? After all, there has been little apparent change in specification for three years… come on someone, add some extra functionality and power into the price bracket and people might upgrade. Microsoft says there’s been an 8% decline in the consumer PC market and a [...]
Software Compatibility History
There has been quite a bit of talk about this video and how amazing it is to see Windows upgrade from 1.0 through to the present Windows 7. However the narrator and originator of the video pushes the view that it is so commendable that Microsoft has maintained ‘compatibility’ for over 23 years. If you [...]
Moving on… upgrading the workhorse hard drive
This is a post specifically targeted for the small company freelancer, even an individual. You have your workhorse notebook, and you are running out of space on the old 160GB HDD but cannot afford downtime. One alternative is to purchase a second notebook (not a bad idea to be honest!) with the much larger HDD [...]
Extending the Internet on the move
When I travel I generally make use of whatever hotel WiFi I can get, preferably of the free variety but I have been known to use paid services. I also try and find any other sources of WiFi as I go, taking precautions when that WiFi is open (use HTTPS with my Google hosted email [...]
Better Defrag
Recently I had a major problem with an EeePC. After configuration and installation of all the software on it and the optimisation of where all the files go, the machine ran slowly. Checking out the C: partition showed that it had a 30%+ fragmentation figure for the files on the disk, notably because of all [...]
Microsoft Mesh – Having it all
Now I could do the big write up of Microsoft Mesh and how it can help you, but a whole lot better idea is to run VT after giving you a couple of notes. It allows you to store your most important files on every PC you have login access to – they should always [...]