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If you are more than 30 years old, there is a high probability that you have been witness to the complete evolution of Microsoft Windows, starting with version 1.0 and extending all the way through to today’s Windows 7. In the following video, the author tries an experiment: Starting with MS-DOS 5.0, he installs Windows [...]
If you have a big sliding door in your house, along with kids and/or a dog, you know how quickly the glass can get dirty. The dog puts nose prints all over the glass, and kids put fingerprints over the nose prints. If you own a retail store, you know how often the glass – [...]
Low-emissivity (Low-E) glass is a special, expensive type that blocks out ultraviolet and infrared light. This coated glass can help protect your furniture and improve the energy efficiency of your home, as Marshall Brain explains in this episode.
A quick note on troubleshooting a HD monitor flickering problem in Windows
by Marshall Brain | September 1, 2010
This past weekend I purchased a new 25″ HD (1,920 x 1,080 = 1080p) HDTV monitor. I connected it to a Windows XP machine, but the same would apply in Vista or Windows 7 in all likelihood. The monitor I purchased was an I-Inc iH252, but this post may apply to many other monitors. If you are suffering from a flickering HD monitor, I post this information in the hope that it may be able to save you some time and headaches…
If you stand outside in sunlight, you are exposed to three different types of light: infrared light, visible light and ultraviolet light. When you are inside looking out through a window, you really only need to see the visible light in order for the window to do its job. The window can block the ultraviolet and the infrared light and you will still see the same thing…
Safe Mode is a feature of the Windows operating system that allows users to load a limited version of the system in order to troubleshoot problems. Learn more about using Safe Mode in this episode.
Google may be moving away from using the Microsoft Windows computer operating system in the company’s corporate offices, according to a report in The Financial Times. David Gelles and Richard Waters wrote that “several employees” have said Google is concerned about the security of the operating system, the newest version of which launched just last fall, and new employees aren’t given Windows as an operating system choice for their work computers.
If you are tuned into the whole war between Apple, Microsoft and Google, as well as the reaction to Apple’s recent actions in the app store, then the following article will be funny: Bill Gates Bans iTunes From Windows And the Article also provokes some serious thought. Apple’s App Store requires approval of all apps, [...]
The product is called Winscape, and it appears to be one of the first real applications of Johnny Lee’s head tracking system. Here is what Winscape looks like in action: A high-resolution scene is painted on two HDTV “windows”, which are inset into the wall and framed to look like real windows. A computer and [...]
If you look back at the history of the tech world, you know there is a point that seems incredibly unjust. Apple releases the fist Apple Macintosh in 1984, and it absolutely blows people away. It does that for two reasons: 1) Even though windowed operating systems had been around for awhile(invented at Xerox PARC, [...]
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