Archive for the 'Software' Category

Glug glug glug, hic!

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

That’s the sound of me drinking up all the Apple Kool-Aid I can get.
I’m now the proud owner of a MacBook Pro and a new iPod (since Apple is practically giving them away when you buy a computer if you’re in education - on the downside, I’m just betting that solid-state iPods are on the [...]

Mom is blogging

Monday, March 12th, 2007

It took awhile, but with some dedicated persistence on her part, Connor’s Mom finally has her own blog. If you’re interested in seeing tons of pictures of Connor, check out Brewster Zone.
A big reason it’s taken so long to get this set up is that I’ve been hunting for a gallery blog solution for quite [...]

My apps are mine again!

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Now that I’m a civilian one of the first things I did was wipe FeedDemon and TopStyle on my computer and configure them the way I want to use them, rather than leave them at the defaults. I found it was easier to stick with a mainly default config to do support rather than try [...]

Why can’t I set NewsGator Online as the default RSS reader in Firefox 2?

Monday, November 6th, 2006

I pretty much avoided the Firefox 2 betas. I spend all day in the browser and I’ve learned that, even with stable betas, if you can’t afford downtime it’s best to let others handle the testing.
So today was the first day I really got a look at the much praised new feature that allows you [...]

Stupid Tech Support Tricks - Copying Windows error messages

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Well, not “tricks” - just one. But it’s a cool one.
In Windows, you can copy the text of many OS or program error messages using the standard Windows copy keyboard shortcut; Ctrl+C.
The nice thing about this is that it copies all the text from the dialog in plain text, so it’s easy to paste into [...]