It seems a number of folks have been having problems finding touchpad drivers for Windows Vista. I recently started trying out Vista on a laptop at home which happens to have a Synaptics touchpad. Without the drivers and its enhancement programs, using...

At first I thought it was just the random person ... Now it seems there are lots of folks trying to soup up Hybrid electric cars with Lithium-Ion batteries! Are they nuts?! Li-Ion can be very very unstable and dangerous. Deform or puncture one and you...

So you have been spoiled by years of running as an Administrator on Windows and used to being able to do whatever you want? Well you'd better start getting used to not running as Admin all the time otherwise Windows Vista is going to drag you into the...

Ever notice how you sometimes write a small batch file to automate something and then it starts growing and soon you start hitting the limits of what the batch file language can do and everything becomes an unmaintainable mess? The natural solution...

It's amazing and funny how fast my post about the slow notepad issue has become the top result when you do a web search for slow notepad :) MSN Search , Yahoo and Google all show that blog post as the top result (at least as of now). Ironically enough...

Say you want to debug your .Net application on some production enviroment, customer site/server and remote debugging is not an option due to various network issues like firewall, latency, cordoned off network etc. Installing Visual Studio might just take...

So it comes to pass. The beginning of the end of the Win9x era with the (official) end of support for Windows 98 and ME. Its been a long time from the heady days of Windows 95 for the Win9x line and nowadays most people probably don't think much of it...