How often have you had someone come up to you and say “Hey, you know computers. I think my PC is infected what do I do?” Generally, their AV is out of date or non-existent. Today it was pointed out to me that Dr. Web has a free cleaner called “Dr. Web CureIt!“. The application […]
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It’s been a while since a wrote a blog post for the cool stuff category. I’ve got 3 or 4 different things I’m dinking tinkering (this was updated as it was pointing out dinking has a pretty negative meaning in the urban dictionary) with these days so I thought I’d just write a quickie blog
Cool stuff, I’m TINKERING with these days. Read More »
Like any die-hard computer geek/junkie, when Vista was first released I moved to a new desktop running Vista. The downside to going to a new desktop is that same old problem “what do I do about my old desktop? I don’t want to (or I can’t) re-install all my programs, documents, etc?”. So for the
Migrating your old workstation to your new workstation with virtualization. Read More »
One of my favorite applications is Windows Live Writer. It’s a simple to use WYSIWYG blog editor that I’ve wrote about many times. I’ve been using it for probably over a year now and not too long ago it came out of beta. One of the things I truly enjoy with Windows Live Writer is
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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about anything so I thought I’d toss it out there that Applied Innovations has commissioned the design of 3 wordpress themes and are giving these away for FREE to the wordpress community. As everyone that reads my blog knows I’m a big advocate of wordpress as a blogging
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Got one of my daily Microsoft email newsletters today and it detailed a couple new tools from Sysinternals (the guys that bring up such great tools as filemon and procmon) BgInfo v4.11 Released. There’s a new version of BgInfo. BgInfo creates a background image with various information about the machine you’re working on at the
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At home I’ve had a homebuilt P4 3.2GHz desktop for a while now, it’s done me well but new video cards, faster multi-core processors and ofcourse Vista… it was time to build a new box. Recently Scott Hanselman posted about his new Ultimate Gaming Machine he had built up and I was inspired to build
My New SuperRig (AKA the gaming/media beast) Read More »
Ever since Bill Staples first blogged about the collaborative work Microsoft was doing with Zend to improve PHP stability and performance on IIS, I’ve been giddy as a school girl. Having run a core component of the AppliedI.net infrastructure that makes use of PHP and MySQL on IIS7 and making use of FastCGI and the
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I’ve enabled MonsterID comment image tags on my blog and discuss MonsterID, it’s use and my blog theme in this article. What is MonsterID MonsterID is a method of generating a unique monster image based upon a certain identifier, usually based on IP address, email address or something similar. It’s used to automatically create a
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This blog article was initially just one large article and in an attempt to make it more enjoyable I’ve broken it down into 3 parts. This is part 2, using My Movies Catalog. My Movies Catalog is an add-on tool for Windows Media Center which allows you to connect to a webservice and pull down
Stream DVDs to your Xbox 360 from your Media PC (part 2) Read More »