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Entries Tagged as 'Windows'

Windows 8 training camp

May 10th, 2013 · No Comments · humor, Microsoft, video, weird, Windows

The marketing geniuses at Microsoft seemed to have missed the point or the boat with these Windows branded ads. While they are pretty good in and of themselves, they do not sell any product. They’re head scratchin’ WTF ads. Piano Makeup Watermelon

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What do people think of Windows 8?

October 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off · bizarre, humor, Microsoft, tech, video, Windows

Chris Pirillo, founder of LockerGnome, hits the streets to find out how real people experience Windows 8. Watch how people react when asked to complete simple tasks on the new Windows 8 operating system.

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Windows 8 Metro on an iPhone

July 13th, 2012 · Comments Off · Apple, clever, Microsoft, tech, video, Windows

Probably for the geekier smart phone user, this app requires you to jailbreak your iPhone.

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Windows 8 boot time

September 14th, 2011 · Comments Off · news, tech, video, Windows

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.

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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 · 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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