Tomorrow evening’s Microsoft Cloud & Infrastructure Meetup is a look at Windows 10. Meetup at Microsoft Auckland from 17:00 for pizza, beer and networking followed by a demo and open forum discussion. I’ll be there, if you want to come just RSVP via meetup. Kicking off 2015
I don’t miss Windows XP but my current Windows 8 lock screen reminds me of that iconic XP Bliss background, with a twist. The sculpture is “Horizons” by Neil Dawson from the Gibbs Farm Sculpture Collection, Kaipara, New Zealand. This is a 2D visual illusion made of steel tube
Another year has flown by and it is 2014. Time to look back at 2013 from a bloggy (not just CAD) perspective: Best Blog Event: For me the event of the year, blog’wise, was the Revit Technology Conference. It was an inspiring mix of education, inspiration, meeting new folks
John’s Background Switcher is one of my favourite Windows Utilities. I found it after stumbling across his post about a search for new small car (which turned out to be a Fiat 500)! It randomly picks images from my Flickr or local machine and creates a new desktop image,
A week or so back Microsoft released an update for the Windows 8 People, Mail, Calendar, Messenger application. The updates introduce some useful refinements to the rather basic, to be kind, first generation application. I say application, rather than applications, as these four Start Menu Tiles are just different aspects
Techsmith have posted a useful guide on using Snagit 11 with Windows 8. Although it is a desktop app (no RT version yet) you can capture the Start Screen and Modern UI applications with the use of hotkeys. There’s also a guide to adding Snagit to the Start Screen
I’ve been using Windows Live Writer to create drafts for this blog for several years. The, recently decommissioned, Mesh/Live Mesh sync service to enabled me to blog from my PC or Netbook. When I fired up Windows Live Writer all the post drafts, images and other resources would
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Back in 2009 I wrote a post, which also spawned a new category “My Perfect PC”, prompted by the desire for a truly mobile design/drawing/documentation tool: Recently I was clearing out a closet and found what was, a long time ago, my design tool box: + + + An A3 board,
This is my Windows 8 upgrade experience on an old’ish (2009) home PB Tech i5 PC. It had run Windows 7 64 from new with a mix of Autodesk Building Design Suite, Microsoft Office, CorelDRAW and a few simulator type games (Flightsim, F1, WRC and America’s Cup yachting)
Unfortunately I’m just an interested observer of the Microsoft Surface/Windows RT release. Microsoft chose to omit New Zealand from the initial launch which is mildly annoying. It would have been more so I hadn’t already decided to postpone any purchase until seeing the full Surface Pro due
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I like Paul Thurrott's take on Windows 8: Windows 8, Metro, and Mobile Apps - www.winsupersite.com “Windows 8 is a new mobile operating system and not an evolution of the previous Windows codebase. Yes, an evolution of that previous codebase is present, complete with an improved
Although I have spent quite a bit of time with the consumer/release preview editions I haven’t written much about Windows 8. To date I’ve only run it in virtual machines on desktop hardware. Although useful to try some Windows 8 features, review technical aspects and build familiarity
