Emily demos the amazingly fast bootup time for Windows 8. Obviously this is before the IT guy gets his mitts on configuring it with anti-virus, networking, and all the other common user restrictions.
Entries Tagged as 'Windows'
Where Ctl+Alt+Del came from
April 21st, 2011 · Comments Off · history, humor, video, Windows
From the guys who invented it for the OS that made it popular.
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Super Bowl parody
March 1st, 2010 · Comments Off · humor, Mac, tech, video, Windows
Great fan-made parody of the Google spot that ran during the last Super Bowl. It’s more related to computers than the Internet.
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Windows 7 parody
February 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · humor, tech, video, Windows
Picking up the ball where MS dropped it, we find out who else was behind its creation.
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Startup – shutdown
November 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Windows
Not nearly as simplistic as the Mac’s startup chime, each generation of Windows’ operating system had its own unique startup and shutdown sound. They’re all in one video shown below with the exception of Windows 7. You could have some fun with your IT guy over the phone.
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Site Specific
August 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · Apple, Frankly speaking, opinion, Windows, WordPress
There was some recent hubbub about a security issue with WordPress wherein some hacker could hijack the Admin’s login and change it somehow. WP issued a security update and we incorporated it here sometime about Wednesday. We are all safe. Or so we think. SPT is now up to WP version 2.8.4. There’s a new [...]
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Andy Rooney skewers Bill Gates
August 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Gates, humor, Windows
Love him or hate him, Andy speaks the truth here.
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Site Specific
May 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Apple, Frankly speaking, homebrew, Internet, Microsoft, opinion, tech, Windows
A few changes under the hood. For one, I’m weaning myself off of the Yojimbo organizer and on to a similar app called Evernote. My main beef with Yojimbo was that I couldn’t sync my stuff from the house computer to the garage laptop. With Evernote, my stuff is stored in the cloud (on a [...]
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That Windows desktop picture
April 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · humor, Windows
We’ve all seen this stock Windows wallpaper and some of you are still sporting it to this very day. The picture is called Bliss and it’s a real place located in Sonoma, California. That’s it below. The nice gentle rolling hills and the blue sky with puffy clouds is a perfect empty canvas for some [...]
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Switchers
December 26th, 2008 · Comments Off · how-to, Mac, Windows
If any of you lucky ones received a Mac computer for Christmas, here’s some info on how to get all of your data off off your Windows machine and on to your shiny new Mac. Simple, easy. MacDailyNews has the first step in getting started.
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The Matrix runs on Windows
November 11th, 2008 · Comments Off · clever, humor, Windows
Here’s an excellent skit put together by the semi-pros at College Humor. Morpheus takes Neo on a training mission in the Matrix which just so happens to run on Windows XP. Hilarity ensues.
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Great Windows trick
August 11th, 2008 · Comments Off · how-to, humor, Windows
Practical jokes are best when they’re nonviolent and nondestructive. Here’s an interesting prank to pull on your coworkers who are running Windows XP. Simply press Control + Alt and one of the arrow keys. It should flip the screen. Press the opposite arrow key to change it back. Probably won’t work with Vista. (Bits&Pieces)
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