Tag Archive: Windows

Aug 16

Why Do Printers Still Suck?

The Installer failed and looped endlessly. You should be ashamed. Recently I bought an HP Photoshare 7510, a pretty nice printer/scanner that brings me up to the wireless age.  I’ve had a few problems setting up the software though. My Mac had a few hiccups with the scanning from the printer feature, and Karey’s Windows …

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Apr 02

Seamless Mode in VirtualBox Plays Nice

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Last I checked, Seamless Mode in VirtualBox was buggy, and really annoying to use. I’ve recently switched to my Macbook full-time (My big Windows Machine stays plugged into the LAN and is able to be remotely turned on via LogMeIn in case I need it), which means that I’m good for most things, but certain …

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Aug 25

Backup & Restore Android Apps Using ADB

Android is an interesting platform for a number of reasons, one of which is it’s openness to developer and debugging tools, and the fact that it runs a modified form of Linux as an operating system. If you’re like me and quite fond of jumping around from ROM to ROM on your Android devices, a …

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May 03

How did the 4 people who visited JonWestfall.com last month using Windows 95 keep their system stable long enough to get there? :-)

Apr 10

Amazing what we can do these days eh?

One man’s diatribe on the horrors of blog publication, cross posting, and self-referential hell.

Mar 31

A Windows Man Goes Google: htt…

A Windows Man Goes Google: tinyurl.com/wingoog

Feb 11

Fennec Pre-Alpha Released

blog.mozilla.com/blassey/200…windows-mobile/ “This release is pre-alpha, and intended to get the product into the hands of early adopters in order to get feed back and bug reports. In order to focus our efforts on getting this release out, we have targeted only one device, the HTC Touch Pro. This has a number of user interface implications, …

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Feb 05

One Line Wisdom: Windows Mobile Edition

In the past we’ve asked you to share your best tips with the community, and in the same vein comes my newest talking point, the elusive yet useful joys of a small nugget of wisdom. Your mission, dear community, is to share one short line of wisdom that you might give to new users of …

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Jan 08

Why So Much Difficulty Outlook?

OK, so today I’m taking a break from the world of Linux to focus on the world of Windows. Windows 7 to be exact, which now lives on my Toshiba L305 alongside Ubuntu (dual-boot). I’m putting 7 through the paces which for me means installing Office 2007 and setting up Outlook 2007. I have a …

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Jan 08

Jon’s Linux Experiment – Part 4 – The PPTP VPN Snafu

Well, here is a new problem that I’ve solved, with a little help from a few websites! Like many people who work on the internet, I need to connect to a VPN from time to time to work. My VPN, a PPTP Windows 2003 Server VPN, is a nice little setup that I use to …

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