Microsoft is looking to make its Bluetooth notebook mouse more Mac friendly. The emphasis in that sentence is on the word “looking.” The software maker hasn’t made any software or hardware changes to the Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000. It has however, created a new retail packaging for the product, dubbing it Microsoft Notebook Mouse for…… Continue reading Microsoft puts its mouse in Mac clothing
Month: January 2008
.NET Framework Library Source Code now available – ScottGu’s Blog
The .NET Framework source is being released under a read-only reference license. When we announced that we were releasing the source back in October, some people had concerns about the potential impact of their viewing the source. To help clarify .NET Framework Library Source Code now available – ScottGu’s Blog
Open source software for Windows
Open source projects are usually free, and more stable than small commercial software. But that’s not always true. Anyway if you’re looking for open source software to use on Windows you can check out the list below Web browsers: FireFox: one of the best browsers out there. Video players: Miro: Plays almost all video types,…… Continue reading Open source software for Windows
Keeping Windows alive – part 3
Registry – The origin of most problems This is the bad part in Windows as an OS. Windows has this very huge data center where the system and many applications can store anything, most of the registry is meaningless for a normal human, given that you might be able to track down and understand a…… Continue reading Keeping Windows alive – part 3
Keeping Windows alive – part 2
Now that we’re done talking about disk cleanup, it’s time to discuss disk defragmentation Disk Defragment Disks are always partitioned to those small pieces we call “Allocation Units” when reformatting them. This means that the disk is cut into small pieces with specific size for each piece. So when a file is written on that…… Continue reading Keeping Windows alive – part 2