Software – Page 9 – GeekTieGuy

Recovered from host server upgrade – sorry for the outage

11December2008GeekTieGuyPersonal, Software

Looks like my hosting company decided to move my blog from a 32 bit OS to a 64 bit OS, breaking the PHP CGI in the process. Thus, my blog was offline for around 20 hours or so (rough guess). Support claimed I had a “custom” PHP install, which I think is not the case.

Word 2007 and Vista Speech Recognition – don’t say "delete document"!

10December2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsMicrosoft, Personal, Software, Vista

I had a very unpleasant experience today. My wife is trying to deal with pain in her arms and hands from too much typing by using Vista’s speech recognition feature along with Word 2007. She was writing a final paper for a college class and had just finished the last four of nine pages. That’s

HP TouchSmart software update: Touch Optimizer

20November2008GeekTieGuy2 CommentsHP TouchSmart, Software, Vista

Lots of people find that once they’re outside the touch optimized environment that the HP TouchSmart software provides, things in Vista are not all that easy to use with touch. This is something we addressed with what we called a “Touch Optimizer” on the IQ770 (our first TouchSmart series). On the IQ500 series we initially

Steven Sinofsky’s Vista UAC discussion at PDC 2008

14November2008GeekTieGuyOpinion, Software, Vista

One thing I haven’t written about yet is my impression of a few moments in Steven Sinofsky’s PDC 2008 keynote. It was when he talked about User Account Control. UAC was not well received when it was put in Vista, to put it mildly. At around 45 minutes in the keynote, Steven mentions UAC and,

GeekTieGuy

News and views from the guy with the geek tie.

Category Archives: Software

Recovered from host server upgrade – sorry for the outage

Word 2007 and Vista Speech Recognition – don’t say "delete document"!

HP TouchSmart software update: Touch Optimizer

Steven Sinofsky’s Vista UAC discussion at PDC 2008