Aero dies in Windows 8 and stops trying to copy Apple I have been using Windows 8 for awhile now on my home computer. The first thing I noticed about windows 8 is how fast and clean everything feels. It does not have the lipstick on a pig feel that was Windows Vista. After reading Brooke Crothers post on cnet, it reminded me as to why… Read More
HP TC1100 in popular culture As a TC1100 fan, I was looking up installing Windows 8 on my machine. Although installing the wifi card is a bit tricky you can still do it. And for fun I checked up on the TC1100 wiki page only to see the reference to popular culture section deleted! WTH? So I grabbed an old… Read More
Tip #192 By pass the splash screen in windows8 with a click One thing that bugs me about windows 8 is I have 2 screens I have to get pass to get to my desktop. First the splash screen, or whatever its called, then the login screen. Well I just found out by accident that if you click on the spacebar, that will execute the ‘slide open’… Read More
A Fix for brightness, sleep and other keyboard controls not working in Windows 8 This is just a consumer preview, so do not expect everything to work right of the box. This morning I got an update for windows 8 and that loaded a few drivers (I expected) and suddenly my keyboard control keys started working. Also I finally got the Sleep option! Finally. So if you having any… Read More
How to create a bootable USB Drive to install Windows 8 I want to install Windows 8 on my tablet but do not want to dig around to find my DVD player, so I decided to grab an old 4gig USB key and creating a bootable install for Windows 8. There are two ways to do this. The easy way is to simply download the Windows 8… Read More
How to make Excel open each file in a separate window. Tip #198 As a developer and analyst, I heavily rely on the powerful features and flexibility that Microsoft Excel provides for various tasks. This was especially true when I was supporting enterprise level accounting systems. I would often be working with two or more workbooks at a time, and loved having the ability to view two worksheets… Read More