Archive for the ‘Windows XP’ Category

Gmail + IE6

Got an email today informing me that Gmail will be dropping support for Internet Explorer 6. Nice of them to let us know rather than randomly killing support for it ’cause it’s old as crap like most vendors do. A win for Google there I’d say. Point of this article being, if you use IE [...]

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 10:51 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Windows 7: Disable USB Storage

In a number of environments, especially MPAA or DoD environments (in the US we rank nuclear bombs right up there with pilfered copies of unreleased movies, especially ones that cost a lot of $ to make), users should not be able to mount any local removable storage. While Group Policy is typically the best way [...]

Posted on February 1, 2010 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Making Windows 7 Icons Transparent

I have to take a lot of screen shots. Therefore, most of my computers tend to have a white background (they used to be the xman the machine was named after but alas, I’m older and now they computers are all named after Backyardigans;). Sometimes it’s hard to see your icons in Windows 7 on [...]

Posted on January 30, 2010 at 1:22 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Show Desktop Icon for Windows & Windows 7

Ever delete the Show Desktop icon from Quick Launch? One of my favorite features of Windows, it is a big part of my everyday use of the OS. So when I accidentally deleted it I had to figure out how to get it back. And it wasn’t nearly as easy as I would have thought [...]

Posted on January 20, 2010 at 7:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Programatically Clipboarding in Windows

My last article showed how to interface with the clipboard in Mac OS X. Windows 7 comes with the same feature, but instead of pbcopy it’s simply clip. Since you don’t ls, we’ll pipe the output of dir into the clipboard: dir | clip Enjoy & no more complaining that I like one platform more [...]

Posted on January 15, 2010 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Get A Dock in Windows

In addition to getting a theme for Windows that makes it look more like a Mac you can also now install a Dock in Windows! rocketdock.com

Posted on December 28, 2009 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Click-Matrix Leads to Death of a Trackpad

While preparing an image for the latest MacBook Pro we were going through a click-matrix and I noticed a funny usability issue. Basically, when you fire up VMware and log into the virtual machine, the trackpad keeps getting hit by little hands, which doesn’t work very well in typing class. I don’t ask why a [...]

Posted on December 18, 2009 at 6:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Lots of new stuff: Command Line Wiki Integration

The Mac Commands page and the PowerShell Commands page are both now wikis and users with accounts on this site can edit them. Additionally I added a number of new pages worth of commands, FTP Commands, Windows Commands, Final Cut Server Commands, Amazon S3 Commands, Podcast Producer Commands and Xsan Commands; both of which are wikis [...]

Vista & Windows 7 Optimizer

There are a variety of simplistic tasks that can be performed to optimize a Windowz box. Disabling unneeded services and protocols is a great start, but there are tons of other little things here and there. Vista Services Optimizer (works on Windows 7 & Vista) is a nice little tool for those who don’t have [...]

Posted on December 4, 2009 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Windows 7 HomeGroup

HomeGroup is a new home security feature of WIndows 7. HomeGroup resemble how you protect your home (an analogy I use in the Mac OS X Security book as well): Keep the outside doors locked and keep the interior doors unlocked (unless you’re on the crapper). HomeGroup can be initiated by any Windows 7 version [...]

Posted on October 22, 2009 at 11:07 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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