I went to check and see what’s happening in Facebook just a few minutes ago and was welcomed with a "new, simplified home page" presented to me in my browser. Basics are still the same, but lots of stuff has moved around.

As you can see from the screen shot above; new notifications, requests and messages are now all grouped together by the apps that generated them.
Messages, your applications and a list of your online and available friends have shifted from the bottom-right-hand portion of the screen over to the far left in a sidebar type of layout design. The …read more

I came across an issue today with a computer that I hadn’t been familiar with up until this point. I know a common complaint from Microsoft users is that the PC’s hard drive seems to mysteriously fill up with files.

My boss’s computer seems to sucking all of space and time into a folder named "WinSxS". Currently the folder is at 20GB of space I think. That’s almost half the entire size of the hard drive.
After doing a quick search online about what might be causing this WinSxS issue, it seems to be a fairly common problem. The kicker is …read more

I’m still surprised at the number of people I meet that rely on the Twitter website to serve as their main source of updating and keeping track of their Twitter updates. I’ve been a happy user of Twhirl for quite awhile now.

I decided it was time to try another desktop application out to see if anything had drastically improved since the last time I used something other than Twhirl. It appears that nothing much has changed with Seesmic for Windows.
I still think the use of screen space isn’t very efficient. In the image above I have it maximized and can …read more

Here I follow-up on my last post about what our lives would be like without Windows. Initial reactions would be a world full of rainbows and butterflies, but everything might not be as great as you would expect.

Significant changes in developer tools: Here’s an area where I think Microsoft does good work. The amount of resources I have available to me to both use and learn Microsoft applications and developer more solutions on the Windows platform. Similar to the changes with client applications, there would be changes to developer expectations as well. This impact would probably be less those …read more

I’ve been reading an interesting article on the PC World website titled "What Would Life Be like Without Windows". I’ll admit, I’m a fan of Microsoft. Don’t jump to conclusions though, I think there are plenty of areas for them to work harder and deliver a better product to their users.

Of course there’s the initial knee-jerk reaction that life would be fantastic without this giant monolithic software elephant in the room. After all, everything they make is crap and they strong-arm competition and their business partners to do what they want. Right?
It’s not that easy, the article discusses these …read more

I think one of the things that makes the Google Chrome browser faster than the other common browsers is that there aren’t any add-ons or extensions that you can start cramming into it to do all sorts of cool things.

That may all change now that Google Chrome now has the ability to download and install a variety of extensions.
I’ve decided to try a few out. Since I’ve also decided that I really only use Google Chrome for a set list of uses, I was only really interested in downloading extensions that were directly related to other Google tools that …read more

As a follow-up to my previous post about giving reimage PC Repair a try, my computer just finished it’s scan of my system. The user-interface information was nice during the scan. The scan looking for a variety of items during its testing.

reimage PC Repair was looking for things like system hardware information, general PC Stability issues, PC Security issues. After the scan was completed it detected a variety of issues with the hardware performance and software application stability. Perhaps most of this was true, but I always wonder about applications like this, especially when they show these graphs. Do …read more

Google Chrome has released an update to their Internet browser application. I’ve been using it a little bit more. I checked out the update and was pleasantly surprised to find out that Google Chrome could now sync bookmarks. This is what I was waiting for to happen with the browser.

Not so quick!
When I first wrote about my experiences with the Google Chrome browser, I was shocked that there wasn’t more integration with Google’s own applications. Applications like, oh I don’t know…Google Bookmarks perhaps!?
I couldn’t believe it! Here was a Google application, a web browser no less that couldn’t even …read more

I must be someone that likes the good ol’ days or something. I’ve got an ancient Windows smart phone that I’m not willing to pay to upgrade, my kid is sitting on the living room floor playing an original Nintendo and I’m sitting here writing this blog post on a four year old Toshiba laptop running Windows XP.

reimage provides a downloadable application that you install and let run on your machine. Once the application gets going it seems to be running fairly quickly and is providing lots of information about the what it’s gathering from my machine. As it …read more

A few days ago my friend that runs the local coffee shop I frequently work from was telling me about Boxee. Pretty much all the entertainment that comes into their living and they enjoy on their TV is pumped through this little website service. They don’t have subscribe to cable TV anymore.

Boxee is a downloadable application that runs on your system and helps you find, organize and enjoy the wide variety of online video content that’s available on the world-wide-web. Imagine it kind of like an application that serves like a Web Guide of sorts for your computer.
You can …read more