Do I really need to be notified now?
Oh dear, oh dear! My battery no longer can hold as much of a charge as when it was new! I’m thinking that 1% is a little too low of a threshold…
Tag: Software
I want facial recognition software, why can’t I have it?
I have thousands of pictures... most of them aren’t tagged. Even my new batches of pictures only get tagged about 20% of the time. I really want a set of tools that…
Sneaking your dog into the office and other reasons to use speech recognition
Today is one of those rare days that I have no meetings. And also happens to be a day that Paula needs to spend time getting ready for a house guest. Finney…
Election results widget
I went looking for a Vista Sidebar Gadget to watch election results but didn't find any in the Live Gallery. I figured I'd just have to be "Old Fashioned" and refresh a…
Turning on AutoComplete to make IE’s history useful
For ages I've been annoyed by the IE history drop down which appears when you start typing an address. Here's the thing, most of the work we do is stored on our…
My new favorite Vista feature
I suppose I should start by telling you what my old favorite feature was... I'm not sure what it's called but it allows you to navigate up and down folders much more…
My computer is now a fat jukebox
Success! I have finally reached the end of my CD collection... they are now all ripped. 870 (give or take) CDs are now stored on my PC. 17,501 files in 1,411 folders…
Where’d I take that picture?
Pick a trip you took from, say, two years ago. Take a look at the pictures. Do you remember where each picture was taken? Exactly where? Great, do you think you'll remember…
A moment of silence
Jef Raskin1944 - 2005
Want less Spam in your Hotmail account?
There's a quick and easy step you can take: turn your junk e-mail filter from "Low" to "Enhanced". At the lowest level Hotmail will delete the known junk e-mail before it even…
Are you crash-safe?
No one ever wants to believe their computer will fail them. You can try to make yourself feel safer... your computer is new, it's under warranty, you take good care of it...…
I can quit any time I like
Normally I don't like it when my honey goes out of town… I get lonely and sulky, I don't shave and I eat way more cereal than any human should. Tuesday was…
RSS Readers
I've found that without an RSS reader I don't get around to checking out my friend's pages, so I need to get myself a reader and am now going to make a…
Took a break yesterday
Click for a larger version. This week's contest at b3ta is to add one word to a movie title. I needed a break and couldn't resist (Turns out shortly after…
Some geeky fun
I was chatting with Omar over lunch the other day and he was telling me about his latest wireless network setup and his frustration with trying to troubleshoot connection drops. I feel…
Windows tip
Here's a helpful tip that is quite simple but, surprisingly, quite under-used. When you go to your Start -> All Programs menu to you find it's difficult to location a particular application? …