This quote from Paul Thurrott’s Supersite for Windows, pretty much needs to be stressed. Windows RT will not run any desktop applications beyond the applications that are bundled with the operating system. This means it will not run Windows Essentials 2012, Microsoft Outlook (any version), Microsoft Office (any version, beyond what’s included with RT), Adobe […]
One complaint about Leopard is the faux leather appearance of the interface… If that is annoying you, then take a look at: Big Bucket – Archive – Ripping Out iCal’s Torn Page – How to remove the “Turn page” elements from iCal OS X Daily details how to return iCal to the non-leather appearance. Please keep […]
One problem I have always had, is keeping my programming code organized. Â I have short demonstration applications, code examples, and more scattered around. Â Some of it in Evernote, some of it just in a file in my programming directory… I have yet to find the right application for the job… But, I’ll be going through […]
Clayton Morris, from the Grizzly Bear Egg Cafe podcast, and FoxNews, reviews the BlackBerry Playbook… Over the last week or so, several reviews have surfaced on the Playbook, and most of them seem to be negative… What frustrates me the most is that the user experience doesn’t match the hardware. The PlayBook boasts a nice […]
Doctor Nightfall wrote this in the Girl Genius mailing list, and I thought people might get a chuckle out of this…. This was in response to Friday’s Web Comic… > >> Does anybody else find it really funny that the Heterodynes would BUY a > >> mechanical squid? Had to have been an impulse buy. […]
We’re seeing lots of people warning about — or at least apologizing for - chat hijackings.The latest one says “Hey, check out this girl, lol, she must be out of her mind for making that video!” and includes a shortened bit.ly web address.That URL leads to a Facebook page running an application called Congood. Clicking “allow” on the permission box… via ALERT: Facebook Chat Hijackings […]
Apple has released iPhoto 9.1.1….Here’s the release notes…. About iPhoto 9.1.1 This update adds new email options to iPhoto ’11. It also improves overall stability and addresses a number of other minor issues. Specific fixes include: Adds a preference allowing photos to be emailed using an external email application Adds “Classic” and “Journal” themes to […]
TUAW’s Erica Sadun has put together an alpha version of a Mac OS X application known as “AirPlayer” that does exactly that. What AirPlayer does is create and advertise a custom Bonjour AirPlay service that pretends to be an Apple TV. Bonjour is Apple’s zero configuration networking solution for allowing devices and applications to communicate […]