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All Change?

September 19, 2011 1 Response Shortlink

Could 2011 be remembered as the year when the desktop computing interface got a major overhaul? One part of this, Windows 8, won’t be with us until next year but there has been enough happening so far this year that [...]

Shell swapping in Windows

April 28, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

Until the advent of PowerShell, Windows had been the poor relation when it came to working from the command line when compared with UNIX, Linux and so on. A recent bit of fiddling had me trying to run FTP from the [...]

A bigger screen?

February 23, 2010 Leave a response Shortlink

A recent bit of thinking has caused me to cast my mind back over all the screens that have sat in front of me while working with computers over the years. Well, things have come a long way from the spare [...]

Consolidation

November 19, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

For a while, the Windows computing side of my life has been spread across far too many versions of the pervasive operating systems with the list including 2000 (desktop and server), XP, 2003 Server, Vista and 7; 9x hasn’t been [...]

Never undercutting the reseller…

October 23, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

Quite possibly, THE big technology news of the week has been the launch of Windows 7. Regular readers may be aware that I have been having a play with the beta and release candidate versions of the thing since the [...]

8?

October 12, 2009 Leave a response Shortlink

It now seems that we have a new version of Photoshop Elements from Adobe for every year unless you’re a Mac user. Version 7 convinced me to splash out and that gained me Camera Raw recognition of my Pentax K10D along [...]

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