When helping someone debug their computer this comes up a lot. If things aren’t good in Windows-land, getting your computer to boot into safe mode can sometimes give you enough access to your computer to recover Windows. If you need to uninstall a misbehaving application, troubleshoot a blue screen of death (BSOD) or remove a bad driver, safe mode is usually your…
Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft’s browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. “I’ve a hypothesis to explain Chrome’s recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google….”
We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather then having Internet Explorer installed as the…
Image via Wikipedia So, Microsoft sent me a complimentary copy of Microsoft Expression Studio 3 today for being a partner. Kudos to them. As to Expression Web, it works wonderful for prototyping but, doesn’t really handle CMS themeing that well. Will be playing around with Expression Blend a bit later to see what geekiness I can come up with. It has an…
Image via Wikipedia A recent PCworld story, suggests in a measure to prevent hardware modding (which does have fair use purposes as well, such as making backups of content) they have banned up to a million Xbox 360 consoles from the Xbox LIVE service, and may have rendered the machines mainly unusable. DailyTech’s sources claim the ban blocks game installations to the…
Thanks to a new invention by PCMan (Hong Jen Yee), this extension let’s you choose the engine to use (gecko or IE) for a webpage, much like Netscape does. One great use of this is the ability to run Mircosoft Update in Firefox: Now you’ll never need to open IE to view a webpage again! Get it here. Technorati Tags: IE, Firefox,…
