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Visible Recycle Bin Considered Harmful

Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:23 PM by jonathanh
Lazy-blogging (verb): The act of letting a thought sit unblogged for long enough that someone else blogs about it instead, thereby saving you the effort. cf lazyweb. Case-in-point: Many of us OCD types find it impossible to sit with a non-empty recycle Read More...
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Startup processes on a Toshiba M400

Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 10:58 PM by jonathanh
Or, " What is all this stuff doing on my computer ", part II. I've just finished switching my portable life over to a new Toshiba M400 Tablet PC. Gig of memory, Centrino Core Duo, life is good. At least, it was good until I looked at the process list Read More...
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Cultural change at Microsoft, or, "What was the point in keeping quiet?"

Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:30 AM by jonathanh
In an anonymous comment on “ Patch for tcserver.exe memory leak on Tablet PC - at last! ”, zzz asks: What was the point in “keeping quiet”? Is there some kind of NDA that stops from stating the obvious thing (holy cow we have a bug in our perfect product!) Read More...
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Developers rejoice - new API for Windows Desktop Search!

Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:19 PM by jonathanh
Ever since the MSN team released their first beta toolbar with Windows Desktop Search , developers have been asking how they can add its search functionality to their own programs. Well, the wait is over – the MSN team have quietly added documentation Read More...
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MaxiVista just got even better

Posted Sunday, June 12, 2005 9:53 PM by jonathanh
MaxiVista is a software application that lets you use another PC – your laptop, for example – as an extra screen for your main computer. Since more screen real estate is always better, this is a Good Thing. It's especially sexy with a Tablet PC, because Read More...
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FeedDemon vs NewsGator: why platforms are bad and RSS isn't email

Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:55 PM by jonathanh
Several months ago I started writing a review of FeedDemon and NewsGator, together with an explanation of why I switched (twice). Now that FeedDemon has been bought out by NewsGator , it’s probably time to finish that review… Like Alex Barnett , I actually Read More...
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MSN Desktop Search is out of beta - go get it!

Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 10:55 PM by jonathanh
The MSN Search team have just announced that their desktop search tool is out of beta. You can read more about it in this CNET article (via Scoble ), or go straight to the download page like I did. I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve become reliant on Read More...
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Maxthon joins the RSS sidebar party

Posted Saturday, February 26, 2005 10:36 AM by jonathanh
Right now Maxthon is my tabbed browser of choice – it’s slick, rock-solid, and uses the IE6 rendering engine for maximum compatibility. Most importantly, it’s being updated at a feverish pace that would put a pack of crazed weasels to shame. This morning Read More...
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Skype install problems? Try the updated installer

Posted Monday, January 24, 2005 9:11 AM by jonathanh
Like Jeff Sandquist , I couldn’t get Skype v1.1 to install when it was first released two weeks ago – the installer would happily kick off two processes that would then just sit there, doing nothing. Omar Shahine came up with a workaround Read More...
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How to make Adobe Reader 7.0 load faster

Posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 3:58 PM by jonathanh
Like most other techies, whenever I install Adobe’s Acrobat Reader I also uninstall most of the pointless plugins, to speed up its dog-slow startup process. If you want to learn more about speeding up Adobe Reader 6.0, just ask Tim or Chris or Greg or Read More...
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New MSN Search wiki on Channel 9

Posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:54 AM by jonathanh
Check out the new wiki pages that the MSN Search team have created on Channel 9 ! This is a one-stop community information resource for everything and anything to do with MSN Search – the web search engine , the desktop search tool , bug reports, feature Read More...
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Do you prefer single-click or double-click behavior for system tray icons?

Posted Sunday, December 19, 2004 5:45 PM by jonathanh
Many Windows client applications can iconify themselves to the system tray instead of taking up an entry on your taskbar. I love this feature for apps that I keep around all day, because it means that I always know where to find them — they're in the Read More...
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Why is MSN Desktop Search so slow at indexing my disk? And other tips...

Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 7:57 PM by jonathanh
A quick follow-up to four points, since " Dogfooding MSN Desktop Search " seems to be getting a lot of attention. First, Joe Wilcox of Jupiter Research is disappointed with the initial indexing speed of desktop search, because it took 2.5 hours to index Read More...
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Dogfooding MSN Desktop Search - tips and tricks

Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 12:28 PM by jonathanh
The new MSN Desktop Search tool represents the combined efforts of several different search teams within Microsoft, some of which have shown their tools externally (e.g. MSR’s Stuff I’ve Seen ), and all of which have had their own internal beta programs. Read More...
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Sysinternals blog - required reading for every Windows administrator

Posted Saturday, October 09, 2004 5:11 PM by jonathanh
Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell, the guys behind Sysinternals, now have an RSS feed . If you don't know what Sysinternals is, stop reading right now and go to http://www.sysinternals.com . They make administration tools that are so good we reference Read More...
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