Archive for the 'Vista' Category

Sep 23 2008

You broke my video editor

This post finds me answering the question of what have I been up to lately. Well, I’m trying to find easy ways to edit and produce video for as close to zero expense as possible. So I find myself on the Mac and on the PC side of this MacBook Pro working with Windows [...]

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Jun 30 2008

Vista

This is a post that I’ve been contemplating for a while and it will not just be a rant, but offer some advice for fixing issues with Windows Vista. I’ll also offer a little perspective to Microsoft’s new OS, something lacking in today’s blogospheric culture. It took an article in PC World to say [...]

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Mar 17 2008

I admit, Vista is weird

Published by Andy Rush under Vista

It has been this kind of day with machines that I am running Windows Vista on. One of the bugs/problems/annoyances is the strange behavior of copying files. Sometimes it takes too long for Vista to estimate the time it is going to take to copy a given file or files. Other times it’s estimates are [...]

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Oct 26 2007

Is Vista the Problem, or is it Adobe?

Published by Andy Rush under Audio & Video, Technology, Vista

UPDATE: I discovered the culprit of my Ultra CS3 woes. Sony Vegas 7! I installed it on my way to installing Vegas Pro 8 upgrade and it immediately borked Ultra. After I installed version 8, I was able to uninstall version 7 and Ultra was back to working. Soundbooth sucks anyway, so while I don’t [...]

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Sep 10 2007

Windows Live Writer - You Made Me Love You

Published by Andy Rush under Blogging, IT, Technology, Vista

I have a new and blossoming relationship, with a blog editor, and it’s from . . . gulp . . . Microsoft. I’m trying not to feel icky about it, and that’s not hard because there is so much to like about Windows Live Writer. It’s a cinch to set up the connection to your [...]

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Jan 30 2007

Vista Voice Recognition

Published by Andy Rush under Screencasts, Vista

In honor of Microsoft Windows Vista being released today (and all the hype that goes along with it), I wanted to show everyone a feature that really works spectacularly well - the voice recognition system. I don’t see many places talking up this feature, and I DO have to give it further testing, but so [...]

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