Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007 feature a less well known set of connection and monitoring tools. To access the tools, CTRL-Right-Click the Outlook 2007 System Tray Icon. See figure below: The tools provide a couple of useful means to examine and assess...

*Updated* By now many of you have noted that the Windows Vista Ultimate team has launched a new site: UltimatePC.com Seems the Ultimate team has been busier than many people thought... More than anything, the new UltimatePC site communicates that the...

This post isn't going to apply to all people about to drop 5 or 6 large on an Apple Computer Inc. iPhone. I'm speaking to that small group of we get it and you don't, self-appointed saviors of humanity that stand <occasionally> sit <much...

Nothing exposes anything like observing what it does - we are what we do. Nothing Google has ever done quite reveals how it sees itself like its request to file an amicus curiae brief with Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly early yesterday. In an "are...

It is inevitable. People will drop the iPhone - physically. From what heights the iPhone will be dropped and onto what kinds of surfaces it will be dropped remains unknown, but people will drop it. Regardless of what kind of phone people use, I can share...

How many times have we heard it, read it and perhaps said it - good enough is good enough ? It seems that these days we hear and read that phrase a lot more frequently than we used to - most especially as it regards technology and personal computers....

Did you ever see the pop-culture poster of the WWII GI holding up a cup of coffee with the caption that reads, "Have a Nice Steaming Cup of STFU!" That is exactly what I think of when I reads blogs, forum posts and tech press articles waxing...

I suspect that many that work to support the idea that no one needs a powerful computer have an agenda and that their agenda is to stall the sale of computers which are a) more powerful and energy efficient and b) <the kicker> ship with Windows...

Is Google Evil? If Google is evil, is it evil by design, or by virtue of what it does and how it does it? If Google is not evil by design, is what it does still evil? If Google isn't evil in any way, are the results of Google's operations harmful to personal...

Give me my MS MAPI, or Give me Death! Mac guys love IMAP - and compared to POP who can blame them - well... the rest of us <that have used MAPI> First, Windows Mobile is a terrific piece of software that becomes truly awesome when the mobile client...

Windows Vista SP1 confirmed again by loud-mouth Microsoft Downloads There once was a group of tech journalists that headed out on a trip. They didn't get very far, as they came upon wide gorge that was quite deep. They could see their goal on the other...

On the subject of how poorly our press is serving the public in the context of security... certainly, most of us will recall [and some folks with sheer glee] how widely and loudly it was reported a few weeks back, that Windows Live OneCare had scored...

See, http://news.com.com/8300-10784_3-7-0.html?keyword=Internet+Explorer What they don't cover as well, is how Microsoft Windows Vista and its version of Internet Explorer 7, with its default Protected Mode, mitigates the reported vulnerability, or how...

A lot of press has been inked of late, about the efforts of major OEM's and other companies' efforts to " Go Green " and change how they manufacture and reclaim old computers they have sold previously. Some, like Dell and Apple, Inc., have some pretty...

Many of us have read technology industry press reporting, blogs and perhaps scores of user and community group threads describing the issues and problems they have had with Windows Vista. Some are sincere and reflect user frustration with use and stability...