Ten big tech trends from 2010
Updated: 2010-12-31 17:14:02
Home Articles Farewell to the CD Don Syme on F Microsoft's functional programming language for NET An Outlook mystery resolved : removing the blue bar from quoted replies How to backup Small Business Server 2008 on Hyper-V Is high-resolution audio like SACD audibly better than than CD Simple CRUD with Silverlight 2.0 Very simple VB 2008 database app with databinding A simple Delphi wrapper for Sqlite 3 Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate Scott Guthrie on NET futures A simple VB Web Monitor Counting Primes in Flash and Silverlight Images of Sun Welcome to ITWriting.com Reviews Review : Toshiba NB300 and NB305 Netbook Review : LG GW620 Android Smartphone Review : Belkin Play Max F7D4301 wireless router Review : Logitech Squeezebox Touch Office 2010 Pictorial Review Office 2010
Learn how implementing SDL helps write more secure code by reducing the number and severity of vulnerabilities in your code.
Home Articles Farewell to the CD Don Syme on F Microsoft's functional programming language for NET An Outlook mystery resolved : removing the blue bar from quoted replies How to backup Small Business Server 2008 on Hyper-V Is high-resolution audio like SACD audibly better than than CD Simple CRUD with Silverlight 2.0 Very simple VB 2008 database app with databinding A simple Delphi wrapper for Sqlite 3 Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate Scott Guthrie on NET futures A simple VB Web Monitor Counting Primes in Flash and Silverlight Images of Sun Welcome to ITWriting.com Reviews Review : Toshiba NB300 and NB305 Netbook Review : LG GW620 Android Smartphone Review : Belkin Play Max F7D4301 wireless router Review : Logitech Squeezebox Touch Office 2010 Pictorial Review Office 2010
The other day I shared with you an application that I found which automatically adjusts your Windows 7 Aero Color scheme to reflect the current weather conditions. While this neat little piece of software does a fairly good job at representing the outside weather, nothing conveys the weather better than some extravagant pictures. While you can get [...]
Master these keyboard shortcuts and hit the ground running with Microsoft Windows 7.
The other day I stumbled across an interesting program called AeroWeather. This little application looks at the temperature and current weather conditions of your city and then plays around with the Windows Aero theme colors to reflect it. Basically it changes the color of your desktop based on the weather outside. For example if it’s [...]
Christmas day this year brought an extra present for me, I was due a free upgrade on my phone from my mobile carrier. I’d spent a long time before weighing up the pros and cons of the various mobile operating systems and handsets but eventually needed to make a choice. That choice, as you can assume [...]
Microsoft is pushing out Windows 7 themes in regular intervals. The two recent additions to the Windows Personalization Gallery are the Arctic and Fireworks themes. Both themes are more or less wallpaper collections that users can install as themes. Both themes are available for download at the official Windows Personalization Gallery. Windows 7 users need [...]
See how your TechRepublic peers answered this question: If one were located in your local mall, would you shop at a Microsoft Store?
Sales of the Windows 7 family pack are set to cease at the end of this year. According to Amazon, sales of the family pack will end once they’ve run out of stock or on December 31st, whichever happens soonest. The family pack has been gratefully received by many households since its release, it gives [...]
Recently some news has cropped up on the web hinting that Microsoft are getting ready to demonstrate the Windows operating system running on a low power ARM processors, mainly used with Tablets at CES in January. Now the question that remains is will they be demonstrating Windows 7? Or Windows 8 on these tablet devices? [...]
Windows 8 will represent a real new push into PC gaming...Gaming will be a key component for the whole OS.
: , Home Articles Farewell to the CD Don Syme on F Microsoft's functional programming language for NET An Outlook mystery resolved : removing the blue bar from quoted replies How to backup Small Business Server 2008 on Hyper-V Is high-resolution audio like SACD audibly better than than CD Simple CRUD with Silverlight 2.0 Very simple VB 2008 database app with databinding A simple Delphi wrapper for Sqlite 3 Microsoft’s Jean Paoli on the XML document debate Scott Guthrie on NET futures A simple VB Web Monitor Counting Primes in Flash and Silverlight Images of Sun Welcome to ITWriting.com Reviews Review : Toshiba NB300 and NB305 Netbook Review : LG GW620 Android Smartphone Review : Belkin Play Max F7D4301 wireless router Review : Logitech Squeezebox Touch Office 2010 Pictorial Review Office
Yes it’s that time of the year, Christmas day is only a few short days away and if you’re not feeling the festive spirit, what better way is there to get some of that holiday cheer than decorating your desktop? I decided to make things a little bit easier for you and put together a [...]
Let’s say you’re in a large house, or maybe an older building with walls that interfere with your wireless router’s signal, and no matter how hard you try you simply can’t get your router to cover all the ground you want it to. Or, maybe, you’re in a hotel that only provides wireless access and [...]
For the last edition of the Windows Desktop Report for 2010, Greg Shultz did a little poking around on the Internet to see what I could learn about the new, as well as existing, Windows 7 Tablet PCs.
See how your TechRepublic peers answered this question: How many virtual Windows machines are you currently supporting?
Microsoft has this week, without any press announcement, quietly shut down it’s Office Genuine Advantage Programme, according to technology journalist Ed Bott. Office Genuine Advantage was a hoop users needed to jump through to prove their copy of Microsoft Office was genuine before they could download add-ins or templates for the software. Now there are [...]
On January 5th Steve Ballmer will be unveiling the forthcoming range of tablets running Windows 7… again. He, of course did this last year, in fact there were a great number of Windows 7 tablets at CES a year ago including high-profile machines from HP and Lenovo, neither of which has appeared. At the beginning [...]
Microsoft have launched a plug-ins website for their popular Live Essentials Suite. The website, which you can find at plugins.live.com contains not only Microsoft plug-ins but those from third-parties as well.. At launch the plug ins aren’t very numerous but include some for Windows Live Photo Gallery, Movie Maker and Live Writer. There are also [...]
One of the most popular features of the Microsoft Windows Blog on TechRepublic is the weekly poll. Mark Kaelin runs through the most popular poll discussions of 2010.
Both Microsoft and Apple are putting app stores into their desktop operating systems (at least the Microsoft story is true according to a leak earlier this year from HP) but Apple is set to beat Microsoft off the starting-blocks by a whole year and a half. Not content to wait until the launch of the next [...]
There are times that you need to make sure a service restarts when it fails in Windows 7. Jack Wallen shows you how to configure a service to accomplish this task.
There’s good news for the gaming industry as it appears nerds have not been affected by the economic downturn! Nah, I’m just messin’ what ya ;) The new Cataclysm expansion for the ever popular World of Warcraft PC game has sold more than 3.3 million copies in it’s first day on sale, making it the [...]
There is a constant battle on the web between different formats of video. One of the main codecs used at the moment is H.264 –a technology used to encode and decode video, it’s widely used in videocameras, Blu-ray players, online video streaming, and more. Adobe Systems Flash Player browser already has this built into it, [...]
Greg Shultz shows you how to rename HomeGroup and change its icon in order to customize this networking tool and make it your own.
Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right decision on applying Microsoft's December 2010 patches in your organization.
It’s being reported that Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer could use his keynote speech at The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month to show off Windows 8 for the first time, according to reports from the New York Times. He’s expected to show a new “exclusively touch” Windows 8 interface running on a tablet. This will be a [...]
I'm constantly trying to find new ways to discover the best apps for my Windows Phone and this may be the best one yet.
While Windows Blog readers love their performance-enhancing tips, they also rather enjoy a good photo gallery, especially when the subject is outer space.
Stay in touch with all your friends, family and colleagues with Windows Live Messenger! - Tutorial 1 - Install Windows Live Messenger
Now that Microsoft’s own new smartphone OS, Windows Phone has been jailbroken, it’s been revealed that Apple has quietly dropped an API from the latest version of it’s own mobile operating system, iOS 4, that checks for jailbroken handsets according to NetworkWorld. The move comes less than six months after the API was first revealed. It’s not clear [...]
The fake Lady Gaga / Wikileaks debacle has resulted in the US Military implementing a ban on removable media such as CDs, DVDs, removable memory cards and USB flash drives according to Dvice. The ban has been implemented on US troops to stop them downloading media after Private first class Bradley Manning downloaded thousands of files [...]
It wouldn’t be the holiday season without having a Christmas giveaway for you and we’ve got five copies of Windows7News’ editor Mike Halsey’s new Microsoft Press Book Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out to give away to lucky readers. Each winner will receive a copy of the book as an eBook in time for Christmas. You’re beyond [...]
There can be no doubt that, just over a year after its release, Windows 7 has been a resounding success for Microsoft and has helped the company avoid the economic downturn completely. Within three months after its launch the new OS had achieved 10% market share. One year on and that’s sitting at 25% according [...]
Microsoft has announced the addition of Tracking protection to their new Internet Explorer 9 web browser. The feature consists of two options that allow users to have more control over which (if any) websites are allowed to request data from the user’s browser and computer. It’s a simple privacy measure that is long overdue. While [...]
We know that Apple are very protective over their operating systems and it’s next to impossible to get their OS to run on anything other than their own hardware. It’s also no easy task to run an operating system like Windows 7 on Mac hardware, it can be done but it’s not designed to run [...]
While 2010 was the first full year of Microsoft Windows 7, the previous versions of that operating system still have an integral role to play in many enterprises.
There’s been talk for a while now about Windows 8 getting a full App store and lots of people are excited about it. There are bound to be a few companies however, perhaps Adobe and Apple, who are used to delivering software to their customers in specific (more traditional) ways and who may not like [...]
One of the biggest gripes people have had about Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 operating system is the lack of cut, copy and paste. Microsoft said they would be rolling this feature out in an update in January 2011 and, according to PocketNow appear to be making good on the promise. Some developers are reporting [...]
The mobile phone OS market figures have now been released for the final three months before the official launch of Microsoft’s new smartphone OS, Windows Phone 7. To be honest these figures are only as we should expect, with Apple up a bit, Google up a lot and Microsoft down (again). Some might be surprised [...]
Before Microsoft moved to the Windows Server / Windows XP platform there were two distinct Windows platforms that, while they shared the same code-base had separate development teams and separate aims. For ten years now we’ve had a single platform and a single code base and the result has been impressive with the complaints about [...]
Engadget have obtained pictures of what looks like the keyboard for Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS netbook. This leak comes as Google have announced a major “Chrome event” this coming Tuesday where they will be making a major announcement. The image certainly looks like one for a netbook aimed at reducing the level of customisation and [...]