Category Archives: Computers and Internet

Alt+Tab Bug Worsened by IE 10, But Fix Found

Posted on May 28, 2013 by brucedawson

Windows 7 has an annoying bug that causes alt+tab to malfunction for many people. This bug, previously discussed on this blog in Alt+Tab Depth Inversion Bug, causes the grid of programs to be partially or completely hidden, making it much … Continue reading →

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Backin’ Up is Hard to Do

Posted on September 12, 2012 by brucedawson

I hate computers. All I wanted to do was backup my laptop. I’d been doing ad hoc backups for years (a batch file that zips and copies all the important directories) but that system was clearly insufficient. Replacing my ad … Continue reading →

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What the heck is amd64?

Posted on August 24, 2012 by brucedawson

A few days ago Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG) told me that there was a new codec pack available and suggested that I download it. That should be trivial. And yet, somehow, they managed to make it complicated.

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SSOPA

Posted on January 18, 2012 by brucedawson

Stop SOPA SOPA is a bill that Hollywood, the music industry, and others (Big Copyright) are lobbying congress to pass. This bill would allow extra-judicial actions to block web sites and payment processing for web sites that Big Copyright disagrees … Continue reading →

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Alt+Tab Depth Inversion Bug

Posted on October 16, 2011 by brucedawson

If you search the web for Alt Tab Bug you will find many reports of an annoying problem with the behavior of the Windows 7 Alt+Tab feature. Alt+Tab is used to cycle through the set of running programs in order … Continue reading →

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Zune EULA Window Size Fail

Posted on September 1, 2011 by brucedawson

Windows Update just asked me to install version 4.8 of the Zune software. Okay, fine. Then this license agreement came up:

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Remote Desktop Multimon – Just Kidding!

Posted on June 9, 2011 by brucedawson

Remote Desktop is pretty cool technology – the ability to connect to a remote machine so seamlessly that you sometimes forget that the machine is remote is pretty amazing. However one thing has always been missing – multimon. As a … Continue reading →

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Photo Tagging Update

Posted on January 12, 2011 by brucedawson

My obsession with tagging people in my photos with Windows Live Photo Gallery (TM or ® or some-such I’m sure) has continued. I’ve now added 14,594 people tags to 9,511 photos (out of a total of 37,393 photos). There are … Continue reading →

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Photo Tagging with Windows Live Photo Gallery

Posted on July 5, 2010 by brucedawson

Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery beta was released June 2010 and I’ve found it quite addictive. It makes tagging people’s faces quite fun – almost a game. In the first eight days of using this new version I tagged 6310 … Continue reading →

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