REALbasic Screencast – IDE Walkthrough
I’ve been meaning to do this for a long time; create a screencast of the REALbasic IDE. In this video, I start from square one, a blank RB project. I show some of application settings, forms, menus, and how to build the project. Very basic but I think it shows the fundamentals of the REALbasic [...]
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Introduction to Linux
Have you heard me, or someone else, perhaps a news story mention Linux? Perhaps you’re curious and you want to see what it would be like to download and try out Linux, even what it would take to install it. What does it look like? Is it hard to use? The following online video is [...]
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Trumped by Toshiba?
I finally did it. I finally plunked down some $$$ and bought a new laptop. I found a Toshiba that was a reasonable price and with reasonable features for what I’m wanting to do. I knew I was going to wipe off Windows Media Center from it and install MEPIS and I have been hearing [...]
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Vista Confusion
I’m reading the �Vista: The Essential Guide� issue from PC Magazine (January 2007) and it’s full of confusing contradictary information. BTW, this is a �double issue� but somehow, it still feels light compared to what it was historically. We start with the �First Word� by Jim Louderback. He starts his article off with the statement [...]
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Is MSN the best search engine? Yes!
I’ve been searching for some eclectic topics on the Internet lately. Of course with the Google toolbar, I started by searching with Google first and went through several pages of results and I didn’t really find what I was looking for. I then turned to several of the other search engines. Yahoo, A9, Ask, Lycos, [...]
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Not yet again! Microsoft warns of critical Windows and IE flaw
Windows security flaw could allow hackers to take over PCs through malicious Web sites. Microsoft said the vulnerability exists in its Internet Explorer Web browser, which an attacker could exploit to take over a PC by running software code after luring users to malicious Web pages. Computer security experts and Microsoft urged users to download [...]
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Forbes : Microsoft in midlife crisis
Slower and less profitable, can Microsoft hold on to their edge? http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/2005/09/12/microsoft-management-software_cz_vm_0913microsoft.html A scathing article. It will be interesting to see what MicroSoft turns into over the next 10 years. Thanks to Ted Roche for the article link.
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IE Only Sites :: A new weapon to gain access
I’m a big Mozilla Firefox advocate. I know of a couple of “IE only” sites however that have caused several problems to some friends who are giving Firefox a try. Firefox will not work with ActiveX controls. This is a good thing in my opinion. So if the “IE Only” site really uses ActiveX controls, [...]
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The Problem With Visual Studio .NET 2007
Yes, you read correctly. 2007! .NET 2005 isn’t even out yet and Microsoft is already doing a sell job on VS .NET 2007. (By then, they’ll have dropped the .NET part of the name.) Microsoft is starting to talk about how 2007, will have better integration and a closer relationship with data. Here’s a quote [...]
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PC Mag: The names that could have been
PC Magazine and its staff came up with some very funny names for what Windows (previously Longhorn) could have been called. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1839879,00.asp So, in no particular order, here is PC Magazine’s suggested list of Windows names instead of Windows Vista: Of course, there’s always “Windows 06? 07? 2010?” “Windows XP Service Pack 3.” “Windows Elephant. [...]
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