As we blogged last week , The Vista SP1 Release Candidate is now available for public download. If you’re looking to see what fixes are contained in the Service Pack, check out this post by Long Zheng of istartedsomething . Keep in mind, this isn’t the final release, it is a release candidate...
I spent last week away from the office in technical rehearsals for Shadow of the Raven: Stories of Edgar Allan Poe . I was using both the Asus R2H and the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 during my work depending on tasks. As we have a wireless network in the our new theatre space it makes communicating back to the...
Small firestorm alert. In the last couple of days CNET and Engadget have blown some air on the embers that have been simmering over Vista issues. And of course in mobile circles those issues smolder pretty close to the surface. It was reported that “ Microsoft is quietly allowing PC Makers to offer a...
Timing. James Kendrick has had enough . A master of mobile technology, he’s been working with Vista on more mobile devices than I can keep track of. He’s put up a pretty scathing post on jkOnTheRun stating that that in his opinion Vista will never run well on mobile devices and it is one...
Jenneth Orantia at Gear Diary has picked up one of the newer Asus R2H Ultra-Mobile PCs that comes with Vista installed, and is giving it a once over. We haven’t heard a lot about this UMPC that ships with Vista Business installed and what we have heard is that there are still issues with the Vista...
Vista Battery Saver is just what its name says it is: A utility to squeeze as much life out of those batteries that you can. Basically it looks like a small control panel that helps you turn of Aero Glass features and the Sidebar when you switch to battery and then restarts then when you plug back in...
There are many useful utilities found in Vista today. You name it, from snipping to syncing to sidebar, they cover all sorts of neat features. Additionally, there are all sorts of system specific utilities that ship with today's mobile PC's. Today's "How-To" is a bit retro, and...
Word started trickling out about the beta of Vista SP1 yesterday and this morning, Long Zheng posts what I hope is good news. One of the fixes in SP1 will address the horrible disk thrashing that I’ve been reporting on when you use the ReadyBoost feature. (It led to me jettisioning ReadyBoost entirely...
If you’re into tweaking your operating system and love to wring the optimium out of your machine, but are a little skeptical about editing the registry, this might be the Cool Tool for you. Vispa offers a graphical UI approach to tweaking your Vista settings. (Remember TweakUI?) I have not tried...