Update 2: This comic strip has been officially labeled as “lame” by Wired. The article highlights, “it is nice to have the Apple product be the humble and earnest one instead of the snide device with all the features”. Role reversal.:)
Having a little fun…
Hamad Darwish, the Flickr photographer commissioned to shoot Windows Vista wallpapers, has been busy over the last few weeks.
He’s appeared on Good Morning Kuwait, a TV show comparable (not in scale, but at least in name) to Good Morning America; Digg (3 times); the Al-Anba newspaper; Kuwait Clientele magazine; Softpedia; Chip.de; the Official Windows Vista magazine and a Chinese magazine for the arts, which they claim to be the biggest in China. Apparently, he has also landed a contract with a photography equipments manufacturer and been commissioned to teach a photography course.
You could say, I started something. But that’s not all.
Hamad has since released as promised, the entire set of photos taken for Windows Vista in high-resolution of 1920×1200 pixels on his personal website. Go grab ’em!
I’ve picked Destination – vol. II as my new wallpaper. It’s just amazing. 🙂
This tip applies only to Tablet-PC enabled Windows Vista versions (not Home Basic). If you don’t use a Tablet PC, then this tip probably won’t be as useful.
It is probably fair to say most of the world’s population are right-handed, and even more so, left-handed people will use their right-hand on computers. Having said that, if you own a Tablet PC, then you would know how frustrating it is to click open a menu for it to appear right under your hand. This is because, by default, Windows assumes you are left-handed and opens menus on the right.
To change this setting, open the Control Panel, click on the “Mobile PC” category, then click “Tablet PC Settings”.
In the dialog, set the Handedness to either right-handed for menus to appear on the left, or left-handed for menus to appear on the right.
Save settings and close all appropriate dialogs. Rinse and repeat if necessary.
This is a clip from of the Australian version of the “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” quiz-show. The show was broadcasted on the Channel 9 channel, who had a strong affiliation with Microsoft through their collaborative content portal, NineMSN. The host (Eddie McGuire) insists the contestants should use NineMSN search over Google search.
What follows is pure marketing gold.
Credits to Lorna Farrar and Alex Khristov for bringing to my attention.
Bill Gates is asked about what motivates him to do the work that he does at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You can watch the entire 50 minute interview with Charlie Rose at Stanford University available on Google Video that talks about Google, the iPod, XBOX360, IPTV, Windows Vista, the EU and much more. This is a snippet that caught my attention.
I’ve been having so many problems with my Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000‘s scroll wheel ever since upon receiving it.The first problem is that the scroll wheel doesn’t ‘click’ – the feedback you get on most mice, but that I could live with that. The second problem I thought I could live with it, but I can’t. For about 80% of the time, I can’t middle click or scroll vertically. In other words, I can’t do the things I want with this mouse the times I want to do them.
This is of course, a manufacturing defect with the scroll wheel. I have to push down really hard with two fingers to get the scroll working even for a little bit. Not only does it make 80% of PC games impossible to play, but it totally breaks my browser tabbing experience.
I’m just so fed up with it today, so I decided to get it RMA’ed. Finding support on the Microsoft site is like finding needles in a haystack of toothpicks. When I finally found what I was looking for (http://support.microsoft.com), I was greeted with this.
It might look like an innocent server error. But…
Believe it or not, the official Microsoft Support website does not work in Internet Explorer, but does work in Firefox. Irony. 🙂
Update 2: I can’t use Microsoft Support because the product is from the US and I’m in Australia. 🙁
Update 3: Website error in Internet Explorer 7 was fixed after deleting cookies as suggested by Martin Ennemoser. I’d like to see an average Joe who’s looking for Microsoft support figure that out. 😛
Update 4: Yay. I should be able to get a replacement unit.