January 2009

Windows Experience Index: Vista vs. 7

January 11, 2009

One of the claims that Microsoft makes about Windows 7 is that it performs better than Windows Vista.  Riddle me this, then…  why does the Windows 7 Experience Index for the same PC differ so radically under the different operating systems?  The following images were snapped on the same hardware, but booted with either operating [...]

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Windows 7. The Vista “dot” release

January 11, 2009

At 6:00 AM yesterday morning I started downloading the Windows 7 x64 release. By 9:30 AM I was installing it.  Yes, I admit it, I’m a keener. I’ve used every Windows beta since Windows 3.1 in 1992, and I still find it a thrill to be on the bleeding edge of new technologies.  I also [...]

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Windows 7: That Ol’ Black Magic?

January 9, 2009

One of the monitors on my desk at the office has been logged in, via remote desktop, to my home PC all day long.  Why?  Well, at home we have a nice fat internet pipe, and I’ve been waiting for my chance to download the Windows 7 beta.  Unfortunately, Microsoft appears to have been caught [...]

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Facebook’s opaque ban policies

January 9, 2009

As Facebook has grown, Internet Marketers have come to call it home.  There are countless events at any one time being promoted that are focused on getting people to join self improvement seminars or buy products.  The Facebook for Business group has over 33,000 members at this point, and is still growing.  When we launched [...]

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Windows 7 Beta not here yet. Doh!

January 9, 2009

I was up at 5 AM this morning to check and see if the download of the Windows 7 beta was available yet.  A more careful read of the Windows 7 blog site shows that the download won’t be available until this afternoon.  Pacific time!  That’ll be Miller Time here on the east coast. This [...]

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Will Apple’s stance on DRM affect Canadian law?

January 7, 2009

The world is abuzz this morning that the minor demons of the recording industry have kissed Steve Job’s ring, agreeing to scrap DRM on iTunes downloads.  As Michael Geist said: “this decision continues to shift away from the failed strategy of locks and levies, though the industry is still vigorously promoting anti-circumvention laws to protect [...]

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Confession time

January 7, 2009

Okay.  It’s confession time.  When I wrote 2008: The Year that VoIP died I had an ulterior motive.  Although I hadn’t done Jeff Pulver’s analysis and learned that VoIP Buzz is down 46.5% during 2008, like many people I felt in my bones. I don’t think VoIP is dead.  I do think the excitement has [...]

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A closer look at VoicePHP

January 7, 2009

I confess that I gave TringMe’s new offering, VoicePHP, a quick once over last week, and didn’t spend nearly enough time with it.  Perhaps it was the pitch that included the line “Everything else remains the same in PHP except that echo, print now speaks!”.  Nevertheless, I had a closer look at it this morning.  [...]

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Balsamiq Mockups earns a place in our toolkit.

January 6, 2009

Have you ever been in one of those design meetings where everyone gets hung up on colors, or button placement, rather than focusing on the fundamentals of how the product is supposed to work?  We all tend to obsess over the minutiae of the design rather than functionality, which is putting the cart before the [...]

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Skype 2.8 for Mac

January 6, 2009

Last night Skype announced the 2.8 Beta for Macintosh users.  I’m not going to comment on the features, except to say congratulations to Jonathan Christensen and his team, who’ve been working at this for a while.  There are several features in that product that make this PC bigot more than a little jealous. The most [...]

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