Samsung’s latest ultraportable, the Q1 Ultra, comes packed with an integrated thumb-board, HSDPA data, 60GB disk, 1 Gig of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 7-inch ,1024 x 600 WSVGA screen. all running on Vista Home Premium. More importantly, Engadget has confirmed that the Q1 Ultra’s 800MHz Intel processor is an unannounced dual-core (not Core Duo) [...]
Category Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft; We Benefit from Piracy
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Techdirt always says it better than I ever could. For some time, big software companies have tried to make the argument that a copy of pirated software is equivalent to a lost sale Read more
Wakeup Windows Vista
Monday, March 12, 2007
If you’re having problems with Windows Vista improperly waking Neosmart might have a solution for you. See below for specific problems: When recovering from a hibernate: “Cannot find uxtheme.dll” appears whenever you attempt to run (almost) any program. No matter what you do, you can’t even run Task Manager. What’s worse, a restart doesn’t fix [...]
New Flexmail Beta for PPC and Smartphones
Thursday, March 8, 2007
It you’re like me you find the smartphone email program anemic at best. Here’s to hoping Flexmail can do better! Known issues include: Mark for download for ActiveSync accounts will not download attachments (this is scheduled for Rev 3) We have one report of Draft Messages getting deleted if you create another one New Keyboard [...]
Yahoo does a little Windows Mobile
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Yahoo! has announced a revision of it’s Yahoo! Mobile; now Yahoo! Mobile 2.0. In full web 2.0 catch phrase effect; “At its core is the carousel, used to navigate intuitively among the various Yahoo! Go widgets: your own personal channels for email, local info & maps, news, sports, finance, entertainment, weather, Flickr™ photos and search.” [...]
Some ReadyBoost Clarifications/ Testing
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
ReadyBoost is the Windows Vista feature that allows you to use a nonvolatile flash-memory device as virtual memory in order to improve Vista’s performance. While SD, CF, USB drives, and any other flash device will work, 2.5MB/sec throughput for 4K random reads and 1.75MB/sec throughput for 512K random writes are required, and a maximum of [...]
Smartphone Software
Monday, March 5, 2007
Lets just jump right in; I’ve been using a Motorola Q for 3 weeks now, below are the programs I’ve found useful. zaTelnet, a Telnet / SSH / SSH1 / SSH2 client for devices supporting Microsoft Compact Framework 1.0 or 2.0. TCPMP is a free open-source media player for Palm OS-based and Windows CE / [...]
Once Again, Closed-source Performs Inadequately
Monday, March 5, 2007
If you own a Zune, then you’re probably underwhelmed by Microsoft’s performance integrating the Zune with its own Media Center software. Ironic, since the whole point, of Microsoft producing it’s own music player, was to integrate hardware with software quickly; something that wasn’t being done quickly enough for Microsoft’s tastes. Yet, Microsoft has failed to [...]
Motorola Q Hacks
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Assorted Motorola Q hacks and tips that I’ve found useful What you’ll need: Only one thing, the free registry tool PHM Registry Editor. Remove Sent Message Confirmation with SMS Select Start and open PHM Registry Editor. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Inbox Enter Inbox, select Menu –> New Key Name the New Key “Settings” Click on “Settings” and [...]
At Microsoft, One Good Turn Deserves Another…
Thursday, March 1, 2007
There seems to be a serious problem Microsoft has yet to address when dual-booting between Windows Vista and Windows XP. Specifically, when XP boots, it mounts any connected drives and checks for System Restore information. XP automatically assumes Vista restore points are corrupt and will delete Vista’s restore points and shadow copies. Officially, Microsoft’s only [...]