technology

Ask any geek and he'll tell you that QuickTime and RealPlayer are less than desirable to have installed on your PC, they do a few things that geeks hate. Ask them why and they'll tell you because they both insist on running applications on start up, that means every time you start your PC, they'll have their own little programs running all the time, even when you're not using them. Even if you use the registry or msconfig to remove them, the next time you start them up you'll probably find they have changed the registry back....

Yes, Microsoft Max has come to an end, but NeoSmart is claiming that: Contrary to what you’ve heard, Windows Vista will not be shipping with any of the original technologies, features, capabilities, or subsystems originally promised. Eh? Name one... WinFS WinFS, OK, but we've still got the end-user features that people associated with WinFS (instant search etc), and WinFS is still in the pipeline. Also WinFS doesn't have anything to do with Max, so why is it even related to your post?...

I installed Windows Vista 5744 on my Tablet PC the other day, before I had a chance to install Toshiba's utilities to make the screen automatically rotate I went over to the Control Panel to change the orientation to portrait mode. Now to do this I was looking for the Mobility Center, which has all the mobile controls for brightness, rotation and so on. But I couldn't find it. After another few seconds, there it was hiding down the bottom, after all it's called Windows Mobility Center....

As many of you are aware IE will only make two simultaneous connections to a server. This is down to the RFC standards to try and prevent servers getting hammered. In recent years however other browsers have ignored this standard and raised their limit. But if you want to change it within IE it's also possible here's how. Fire up regedit and browse to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings Create two new DWORDs called:...

Microsoft have released the long-awaited Internet Explorer 7. I'll do a review/guide on the changes for the Windows Resource at some point in the not too distant future. Until then here are the download locations: IE7 Final For Windows XP 32-Bit. IE7 Final For Windows Server 2003 32-Bit. IE7 Final for Windows XP/Server 2003 64-Bit. IE7 Final for Windows Server 2003 Itanium. More information, including a tour of the new features can be found on the IE7 website....

Yes I'm back, been a bit busy lately with helping Catherine move into university, ok I say help; I didn't really help at all. Then having the house ripped up for a new gas boiler the following week, and finally this week building a new computer. Anyway back to the regular blogging routine. I'll start off with Internet Explorer 7. This follows up on a previous post about Firefox's anti-phishing filter being next to useless (false sense of security - again)....

Catherine ^_^ said to me a couple of days ago that her e-mail wasn't working, turns out the POP service had fallen over, restarting the service didn't do the trick so I rebooted the server. Problem solved. I had dismissed it as being linked with the amount of traffic my blog has had over some recent posts about Apple and left it at that. But then it happened yesterday too, which did strike me as being weird, the blog got about double the traffic it usually gets - which shouldn't be enough to bring down a service....

Ed Bott mentions what one of the /. admins said concerning IE support on the new discussion forums. IE doesn’t work (patches welcome, but since only a quarter of you use it, it’s not a huge priority) This is exactly the sort of double standards that really bug me. People like this, I know perhaps not this guy specifically, but the general Slashdot crowd for nearly a decade complained at web developers for only supporting Internet Explorer....

Just a few quick opinions from a few random blogs I've come across (and Nick's). WebNV: The second thing I noticed when RC1 started up for the first time was the new mouse pointers. The standard mouse pointer now has a shorter stem and looks much more sleek. Also the 'waiting' mouse status was changed. Instead of getting the old and standard hourglass, you now get this nice little swirling circle that looks a lot more modern....

If you're running the Beta 2 build of Office you probably want to patch it with the Technical Refresh Microsoft just released a few hours ago, especially if you're running Windows Vista. Some improvements include: Improved support for the minimized Ribbon Visual redesign of the "Northwest" corner of the programs Double-click the Office Button to close the window Silver color scheme Redesign of the PowerPoint Home tab Improvements to default styles for all objects...