According to Forbes, Apple has “poached” Richard Teversham. Teversham was the Senior director for insights & strategy for Microsoft’s Xbox division (Asian). What does this mean? Well, hopefully it means that Apple has decided to become more aggressive regarding gaming…. Time will tell… (See the Rest of the Story at Apple’s Interest In Gaming Isn’t […]
I have been monitoring for a bit DannyChoo.com. He has been a Product Manager at Microsoft, and most recently the Website manager at Amazon (Japan). Take a look at his site, and you’ll see a lot of irrelevant material, but an equal amount of small tidbits about Japanese life and culture… Go ahead, what do […]
Mac Marginalization: MacInTouch Reader I belong to a survey group called e-rewards (http://www.e-rewards.com/). I just received an invitation to a survey and when I tried to open the link in Safari I was told that it only ran on Windows with IE or Firefox. I fired up Parallels to access the survey which asked questions […]
Well, I always have to look this up, since I do it so rarely… But I had a few questions come in regarding converting a FAT32 disk to NTFS, on a Windows XP system… Well, please remember, your mileage may vary, and you assume complete responsibility for this… But the easy answer is to use […]
Windows XP Stop Messages by Marc Liron – Microsoft MVP (Windows) Stop Messages When Windows XP detects a problem from which it cannot recover, it displays Stop messages. These are text-mode error messages that report information about the condition. Stop messages, sometimes referred to as blue screens (BSoD), contain specific information that can help you […]
Myth – “It is safe to use Microsoft’s RegClean.” Reality – “The RegClean utility is no longer supported by Microsoft and has been removed from all Microsoft download sites. This was done for legitimate compatibility reasons with certain applications and Operating Systems. The RegClean utility was originally supplied with Microsoft Visual Basic version 4.0 for […]
I know that I shouldn’t allow this to annoy the heck out of me, but according to several sources (The Register, All Things Digital, & PaidContent.org) Steve Ballmer has done it again… According to Mr. Ballmer, since the iPhone uses a “expensive” capacitive touch screen, it’s too expensive. Capacitive touch screens are still relatively new […]
The Joel on Software web log, is in my reading list, and the information that Joel Spolsky hands out is priceless… This has been sitting in my in queue for a bit, but he works at dissecting the “Program Manager” title, and what it really means in todays business world. Having a good program manager […]